My new confutor is built and running. What remains is to finish loading up all the software, a lot of tedious drudgery, but I'll soon be back to painting airplanes.

One little item I've installed is called "otoya 128" aka "winevdm" (don't ask me what those names mean or stand for) that I got from Allen (thanks Allen!)

It awakens sleeping code in Windows up through at least Win10 (don't know about Win11, but maybe) that allowed older Windows operating systems to run old 16-bit programs. One such program is Shiny, Jeff "WuhWuzDat" Delhaye's update of Ivan Hsu's Shine. That's the program that allows you to add reflection to model files, or to set the specular gloss level at none, semi-matte, semi-gloss or glossy.

Shiny is in the library here.

You can get otoya28/winevdm at Github, which seems to be a reliable source.

https://github.com/otya128/winevdm/releases