Comments on: Office 4.2 for Windows NT https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/04/03/office-4-2-for-windows-nt/ Fun with Virtualization Wed, 24 May 2023 10:42:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/04/03/office-4-2-for-windows-nt/comment-page-1/#comment-330769 Wed, 24 May 2023 10:42:32 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=408#comment-330769 In reply to Beluga.

Ironically Archive.org saved that auction, and no it doesn’t look like it was Office for NT.

However, good news, they just showed up!. If you wanted RISC Excel/Word, now is your chance!

]]> By: Beluga https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/04/03/office-4-2-for-windows-nt/comment-page-1/#comment-256181 Tue, 26 May 2020 19:59:48 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=408#comment-256181 Regarding the PPC/MIPS version: I have been looking into some NT PPC stuff recently. While I found nothing substantial regarding MS Office, I did find this eBay listing:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Microsoft-Office-Standard-Version-4-2-Word-6-0-Excel-5-0-PowerPoint-4-0-new-box-/372750729488

This version of Office 4.2 for NT is still shrinkwrapped and it does not have this sticker on it. It could be hint that there indeed was a release, I guess.

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/04/03/office-4-2-for-windows-nt/comment-page-1/#comment-11773 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 04:15:12 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=408#comment-11773 In reply to ampharos.

Nice! It’d make sense to have applications that can be scripted that way you could ‘perform a variety of tasks’ and compare the output.. Its not surprising they’d use a 32bit version of word & excel, as I’m sure as a part of their porting tools doing some ‘real world’ stuff would be key, beyond things like notepad and solitaire…

Although I still have doubts if there ever was MIPS/PowerPC versions of excel/word.

]]> By: ampharos https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/04/03/office-4-2-for-windows-nt/comment-page-1/#comment-11761 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:34:09 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=408#comment-11761 For some reason MS has a stripped-down version of Word and Excel from these…

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Products/Oemtest/v1.1/Winstress/stress/i386/stress/

Check out excel32, word32, etc.

Public archives are a blessing 🙂

]]> By: Neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/04/03/office-4-2-for-windows-nt/comment-page-1/#comment-437 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 21:15:39 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=408#comment-437 It seems that 1.25 is … more stable then 1.30 I recall when I actually used Win32s day to day, using 1.25 as it worked under OS/2 as well (with some 'fix')….

By the time 1.30 came out I think we were all running Windows 95? I just remember that NT 3.5 had some good PPP support, but was too slow for day to day stuff, and 95 was amazingly fast and ran Win32 stuff way better then WinOS/2 / Win32s.

]]> By: Anonymous https://virtuallyfun.com/2011/04/03/office-4-2-for-windows-nt/comment-page-1/#comment-436 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 21:05:56 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=408#comment-436 OK, I found out why wave sounds weren't working properly in Windows 3.1 in DosBox – IRQ was set to 5 instead of 7, after fixing that both Windows sounds and SFX in Lemmings works (but SFX in Doom still doesn't).

BTW, Win32s I have installed in is 1.30.172. Lemmings and Doom work, but Word doesn't – says "There's not enough memory to run Word.".

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