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Posted by Lawrence Osborn
Feb 6, 2014 at 04:11 PM
Believe it or not, Blackwell Idealist ver.3 does work on the 64-bit version of Windows 7 (at least it does on my system). The program itself is 32-bit. Unfortunately the setup program in the Idealist executable isn’t, which is why people run into difficulties. The answer is to paste a copy of the Idealist program folder into the Program Files (x86) folder of Win7. Then create a shortcut to i32.exe and in Properties set Compatibility to something appropriate (I use Windows98).
If anyone is interested in trying this out but doesn’t have a copy of the full Idealist program folder, contact me via the Idealist users forum and I’ll make a copy available.
Yours
Lawrence
Posted by critStock
Feb 7, 2014 at 02:43 AM
An excellent freeware alternative to Notezilla is Stickies: http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/. It is remarkably full-featured and sophisticated for freeware.
Posted by 22111
Feb 15, 2014 at 12:09 AM
“I don’t understand why Ilium hasn’t ported it”
Well, xtabber, I understand, after having had contacted its developer, in the kindest and most constructive imaginable form, without receiving ANY sort of answer. It’s just that some developer do something good, here and there, by pure chance, and then never ever again - they’re just coders, and if they just do the coding spare-time, on top of that, well, expectations of users will never be met. It’s just our wishful thinking, but dealing with developers who’re sub-standard.
It’s as simple as that.
(Whilst developers like for Zoot and such just don’t do enough coding…)
Btw, that’s why I’m so much fed up by MS: They should have BOTH types, coders AND thinkers… but then, where are those thinkers of theirs’ results, good heavens?!