> will you be able to run the dos based porgrames Shrewsbury Reading etc on
windows 7, so not needing a dos box?

I don't know, as we haven't yet seen Windows 7, but I imagine it will be
no better than Vista in this respect, so I expect DOSBox will be needed.

To the best of our knowledge, our forthcoming Windows simulations will
run on any version of Windows from 98 onwards (and probably also on 3.1
and 95).

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne (SIAM)