Wow,
I think I've got it working.
I've got XGWorks working on my old xp netbook .
All I did was copy the Yamaha folder that the program is in onto a zip drive, then copied it into my Win7 laptop.
In short, I didn't actually try & install the program, because every time I put the program disk in my win 7 computer it rejected it as not suitable.
I copied the little icon that starts the program onto my desktop, clicked on it, and amazingly the program opened.
I loaded a couple of midifiles, so far so good.
Sounds too good to be true, so I've got my fingers crossed.
Got a couple of other old programs I couldn't install, might try the same thing.
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Rikki 🧸
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