Ok, some information finally...

However, I suspect many like me will have old desktop wallet that won't connect anymore.

I will go the exchange route for fork to start and the mobile route a little later.

Please tell us how we can transfer or coins with the old wallet not connecting - did I see something about a cli method - I'm not very familiar?

A small tutorial would be great, the more people who have these coins, the more people will want these coins.