status of vm (confused. attempting to install on ubuntu 24.04 GNU Emacs 29.3

Hello All,

I've been using VM since 2002 until April 2025, when my old machine died. I installed Ubuntu 24.04 with GNU Emacs 29.3 on a new machine and trying to install VM. I attempted versions vm-8.2.0b-gnu23, vm-8.2.0b and latest downloaded from this site. I had to modify makefiles and some code to make things compile and start up, each version has been failing in their own ways and I am trying to understand if VM is compatible with Emacs 29.3 or I am doing something wrong. I read that VM was not maintained for a while and possibly needs to be upgraded to the new version. Any advice is greatly appreciated.