I've worked 2 places where we have not been able to get WaterWorks to run in the XP environment.  I am on XP now, but we have maintained a computer running Win98 for the sole purpose of running WaterWorks and a few other oldies but goodies.

We also have Stormshed (the latest evolution of WaterWorks) for our XP machine but I personally prefer Waterworks, it is so much easier and faster to use once you have experience with it.  Therefore I recommend getting an old computer that will still run Waterworks rather than upgrading to Stormshed.

Thanks for the advise.  I believe there's a way to have a second hard-drive on this machine with a different version of Waterworks on it - then I would just have to re-boot to the other drive.  Annoying, yes, but at least it would work.
Otherwise, I'll agree that Waterworks is a very good little program.  Proof that "upgrades" aren't always better.

I finally got around to trying to get WaterWorks to work.  I installed an old hard drive in my new computer, installed Win98 in it (supposedly anything pre-NT works) and set up a dual boot environment.  Basically, I wasted an entire day because my version of WaterWorks kept giving me an error.  I suspect that the files I have are corrupted.
Is there any chance that the you have the old free-ware distribution file from Engenious?  If you do, could you send it to me?
Thanks for your time.

Dave
Dave.lervik@comcast.net