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Megastar5 now a free download

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I just found this out over on CN. The popular program developed by Emil Bonanno was released in 1992, back in the days of Windows 3.1. It was continually updated until a few years ago when Emil moved on to other stuff. It was marketed by Willmann-Bell until their closure last year. At that time, Emil granted permission for its free release. It is a program that I wished I had bought back in the day, but never did. But I did download it to play around with it some to see how I like it. From a few things I've read it might not work well with Windows 11, but it does work in Windows 10 (and earlier versions). Anyway, the zipped file can be downloaded at the below link if you wish to mess around with it some. A user manual is also included in the download. You will need to create the folder C:\MegaStar5 on your hard drive into which you extract the files. Hopefully some will find it useful. Have fun.


https://archive.org/details/mega-star-5
Alan

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