Friday, January 23, 2009

Bye-bye Win98, we will miss you(?)

Always read the fine print. Every now and again something comes around that catches you out... Late last year I upgraded my development environment to Visual Studio 2008 and the latest Windows WDK. With that I converted the PPJoy source to VS 2008 projects, did a couple of regression tests, and everything looked fine. The catch? I never tested on Windows 98...

On Monday, as I was testing the new PPJoy installer on Windows 98 only to discover my executables won't run on Windows 98. A quick google later I am reading the compiler release notes specifying that VS 2008 only supports Windows 2000 and later.

So that settles it then: PPJoy will no longer support Windows 98. I could try to hack some support together but frankly the time is spent better elsewhere...


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4 comments:

  1. CarlJanuary 24, 2010 at 4:01 PM

    So, which version of PPJoy works on Windows 98?

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  2. DeonVDWJanuary 29, 2010 at 7:11 AM

    Up to version 0.83 will work in Windows 98.

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  3. laurenSeptember 20, 2011 at 5:42 AM

    I used Windows 98 for 2 year approximate.But as you wrote for using recent developments we need to upgrade Windows OS too.I have now Windows 7.Which version I can use?
    digital certificate

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  4. Kary ChristDecember 3, 2024 at 10:50 AM


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