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This is what you gotta give to MS. You can still install AoE2 on Windows 10 no problem (right?), but trying to get it to work on a Mac requires custom third par

by xixixao 11y ago

This is what you gotta give to MS. You can still install AoE2 on Windows 10 no problem (right?), but trying to get it to work on a Mac requires custom third party wrappers. (I also didn't even know/forgot AoE was released for the Mac)

TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago
I wish that Apple had MS's backwards-compatibility on iOS. Poor BC combined with a walled garden means old games and apps simply disappear out of existence when the developer cannot afford to support them any more.
- vbezhenar 11y ago
  iOS usually runs apps from previous iOS versions. I'm not sure about exact level of backward support. But usually apps disappear because their developers decide that they don't want to pay $100/year anymore.
  - TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago
    > iOS usually runs apps from previous iOS versions. iOS routinely breaks many apps with each upgrade. > But usually apps disappear because their developers decide that they don't want to pay $100/year anymore. Maybe small apps. Most big apps that disappear do so because their developers cannot justify porting them. This is true for almost all the games that existed on early iOS by major publishers.
hmottestad 11y ago
AoE2 stopped working properly some time around windows 7 and required a bunch of workarounds until they fixed things with windows 10. They did a remake of AoE2 called HD edition that works much better under windows 7-10.
- rodgerd 11y ago
  It certainly didn't stop around Windows 7, I was playing it quite happily, modulo the lack of understanding widescreens.
  - hmottestad 11y ago
    You had to kill explorer to play aoe2 on windows 7 to fix the color issues: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-gaming/age-of-empires-2-on-windows-7-has-color-issues/a1763d12-11e2-498f-9b23-122792b14f74?auth=1 http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-g...
gsnedders 11y ago
Windows x86_64 did drop support for 16-bit Windows applications. And a sad number old installers are 16-bit (even for 32-bit applications, as it meant they could give a user-friendly message on 16-bit Windows)—so much so that for some InstallShield and Acme installers they have a hack that reads the data files using a 32-bit copy of the installer application! See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2013/10/31/10461992.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2013/10/31/10461... for some fun discussion about that BC hack. Makes me sad that I can't install Civilization 2, even though it's a 32-bit app.

by xixixao 11y ago

TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago

I wish that Apple had MS's backwards-compatibility on iOS. Poor BC combined with a walled garden means old games and apps simply disappear out of existence when the developer cannot afford to support them any more.

vbezhenar 11y ago
iOS usually runs apps from previous iOS versions. I'm not sure about exact level of backward support. But usually apps disappear because their developers decide that they don't want to pay $100/year anymore.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago
  > iOS usually runs apps from previous iOS versions. iOS routinely breaks many apps with each upgrade. > But usually apps disappear because their developers decide that they don't want to pay $100/year anymore. Maybe small apps. Most big apps that disappear do so because their developers cannot justify porting them. This is true for almost all the games that existed on early iOS by major publishers.

hmottestad 11y ago

AoE2 stopped working properly some time around windows 7 and required a bunch of workarounds until they fixed things with windows 10. They did a remake of AoE2 called HD edition that works much better under windows 7-10.

rodgerd 11y ago
It certainly didn't stop around Windows 7, I was playing it quite happily, modulo the lack of understanding widescreens.
- hmottestad 11y ago
  You had to kill explorer to play aoe2 on windows 7 to fix the color issues: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-gaming/age-of-empires-2-on-windows-7-has-color-issues/a1763d12-11e2-498f-9b23-122792b14f74?auth=1 http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-g...

gsnedders 11y ago

Windows x86_64 did drop support for 16-bit Windows applications. And a sad number old installers are 16-bit (even for 32-bit applications, as it meant they could give a user-friendly message on 16-bit Windows)—so much so that for some InstallShield and Acme installers they have a hack that reads the data files using a 32-bit copy of the installer application! See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2013/10/31/10461992.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2013/10/31/10461... for some fun discussion about that BC hack. Makes me sad that I can't install Civilization 2, even though it's a 32-bit app.