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Is there any way I can install v. 6 without overwriting my v. 5.95a?
v6.00a does not overwrite v5.95a. Because of the potentially incompatible differences I renamed the executables as BBCWIN6.EXE and BBCWRUN6.EXE so they will not overwrite the original (v5) BBCWIN.EXE and BBCWRUN.EXE. On most of my PCs I have desktop shortcuts to both v5 and v6 so I can easily run either.
The libraries, example programs and add-in utilities will be replaced, but that is usually what you will want (for example the APLIB.DLL which comes with v6.00a is less likely to cause MalwareBytes to report a false positive than the one which comes with v5.95a).
Also bear in mind that the same Registry entries are used, so things like the 'recent programs' list and the customization settings are shared between v5.95a and v6.00a.
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