lol, as if Windows could ever run a 25-year old program. I have had 100x more success (and less CPU use) running any Windows program/game older than 15 years on Wine in Linux than on Windows.
Crash bandicoot came out in 1996 and the N Sane trilogy works just fine, same with doom in 1993 and doom eternal runs like butter, so I mean I dunno seems okay to me....
Alright, I get it, games are no metric; I had Microsoft office 95 back in those days and now I got Microsoft 365 no probs, plus I had outlook all those years ago and now I still got outlook soooooo.....you know, may be I'm just like a bit of tech wizard here, I get it, not everyone's a wiz, some are just casual users, I get it, I get it. Takes some tinkering, but you get it working in the end.
If you followed the best practices of the time, along the lines of the Charles Petzold "Programming Windows" book, there's a decent chance the program will still work. Problems is there was virtually no QC at the time, a lot of programs written by babies in Visual Basic, a lot of hacks, and a lot of weird drivers, and very few modern standards when it comes to internet protocols, file formats, and user permissions.
lol, as if Windows could ever run a 25-year old program. I have had 100x more success (and less CPU use) running any Windows program/game older than 15 years on Wine in Linux than on Windows.
Crash bandicoot came out in 1996 and the N Sane trilogy works just fine, same with doom in 1993 and doom eternal runs like butter, so I mean I dunno seems okay to me....
Th-this is a bit, right? Those releases are.. modern.. dangit, I'm immediately so confused.
Alright, I get it, games are no metric; I had Microsoft office 95 back in those days and now I got Microsoft 365 no probs, plus I had outlook all those years ago and now I still got outlook soooooo.....you know, may be I'm just like a bit of tech wizard here, I get it, not everyone's a wiz, some are just casual users, I get it, I get it. Takes some tinkering, but you get it working in the end.
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If you followed the best practices of the time, along the lines of the Charles Petzold "Programming Windows" book, there's a decent chance the program will still work. Problems is there was virtually no QC at the time, a lot of programs written by babies in Visual Basic, a lot of hacks, and a lot of weird drivers, and very few modern standards when it comes to internet protocols, file formats, and user permissions.