Well I'd be interested in an installer that would install all the old runtimes.
I'd even use it on systems I was maintaining.
I have right now as part of my various jobs a rather large upgrade of
a home server for my uncle.
This old box hasn't got backed up in ages, but will eventually be done.
however I'd like in all honesty to make things as easy as I can.
Most stuff from 2005 up of say visual c and the other stuff has
actual functionality for installers and works well.
The fact you don't need anything bar the dotnet4 package does help.
But any older stuff may or may not work.
though I have not done this for all the systems this box will have
some older games run on them.
I plan to use the swamp folder on my drive to do the transfer of
what is needed however I'd like to have an installer that would load
all old files into the right place with possibly autodetection of
architecture or have seperate installs for each.
At 11:37 a.m. 6/05/2012 -0600, you wrote:
HI Thomas,
If it is not too much trouble, an installer like the one you describe would
be greatly apreciated. Pleas make it happen #1. LOL.
Shermanator
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 10:42 AM
Hi Dark,
It wouldn't hurt. A lot of people run out and buy new Windows 7 machines
assuming their older games will work out of the box as they did on XP
only to find that several older libraries such as those for Visual Basic
6 etc were deprecated and removed. Then, those libraries have to be
installed using a third-party installer such as Winkit to restore
functionality to said older games. So the more we can do to document
this fact the more often people can get up and running without a huge
hassle.
Speaking of installing libraries I'm wondering if perhaps I shouldn't
just create a compatibility pack containing the VB 6 libraries, missing
DirectX 8 components, etc so we wouldn't have to install Winkit.
Installing Winkit is fine, but if someone doesn't want the Kitchens Inc
game menu, Life, and other stuff in that package mine could just be a
barebones package for Windows 7 users who need this stuff for the GMA
Games, Kitchens Inc games, Draconis games, whatever.
Cheers!
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