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> It would appear that Installshield is a product used by a lot of old games to perform the installation process. How to make the Pentium generation kids feel
by Hallucinaut 5y ago
> It would appear that Installshield is a product used by a lot of old games to perform the installation process.
How to make the Pentium generation kids feel old :-)
- fistynuts 5y agoSame thought here. "Apparently .ex_ files are actually .exes!" - no shit, Sherlock!
- sersi 5y agoHa! thought exactly the same. I haven't used Windows in 18 years but when he mentioned installshield and cab files I felt right at home. Still remember using the PowerToys to open cab files :)
- paulryanrogers 5y agoThen 7zip and realizing it can open almost anything
- pjmlp 5y agoOr how quickly knowledge gets lost.
- bloqs 5y agoThis. It's strangely upsetting. It makes me want to "raise the alarm", which I imagine is a leftover evolutionary psychological tidbit instilling the "duty to inform" others about things.
- ineedasername 5y agoYeah, I felt a little "get off my lawn!" About that one too.
- Slortibort 5y agoI played a lot of Installshield games as a kid - I definitely recognised their sail-like logo, but was too young to ever poke around in the installer back then. I started poking around in hex maybe in 2008 and then it was just installed games. I do remember trying to mod Populous the Beginning, which is quite a bit older