Hi Josh, Quote My only concern with that line of thinking is this. What happens when microsoft drops support for direct-x8 on one of its newer operating systems, and then all of your games become unplayable? Then I'm certain you will be receiving lots of complaints to update your games. End quote
Well, fortunately for the blind gaming community DirectX 8 support is going to be supported through the Windows Vista life cycle so no worry about this happening any time in the near future. The only catch 22 is that the DirectX 8 that is intigrated into Vista doesn't include dx8vb.dll which needs to be installed and registered with the os separately which is not difficult but bites seeing that the majority of accessible games require that dll file. Right now officially DirectX 8 has been removed from the DirectX SDK releases, but the backward compatibility runtimes are still installed on Vista to maintain backward compatibility with PC games that still use the technology. Quote Also, there may even be software that could nearly automate the process of updating your vb6 code up to vb2008 code. I don't know about that one though. End quote There is. Visual Basic Express has an import wizard. It attempts to update older Visual Basic programs to Visual Basic 2008. Obviously, the process is much smoother if the app is written with VB 2003 or VB 2005, but it can import some VB 6 stuff to VB 2008. However, with a language that old the update process is far from perfect and there could still be a lot of hand coding involved in the process. I'd dare say doing it manually probably would be better in the long run. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
