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In 2016 I was asked to install some software on a WinSvr2012R2. I was forced to install it on my Win8.1 tablet first, because the 16-bit stub didn't work on x64
by justsomehnguy 4y ago
In 2016 I was asked to install some software on a WinSvr2012R2. I was forced to install it on my Win8.1 tablet first, because the 16-bit stub didn't work on x64 2012R2. After install I copied the files to the server and the software brazenly showed "XXX for Windows 95" in the Help->About. On a 2012R2 x64 server. In the year 2016.
There was (and is) a lot of shit which developers did wrong (including writing directly to C:\WINDOWS). Yet if they did stick to the basics (GDI output and so on) that worked for decades. I abandoned Corel PhotoPaint 3 (with (c) 1992) only after moving to Vista in 2008.
- BlueTemplar 4y agoYeah, I have Windows 98 in a VirtualBox for those 32 bit programs using a 16 bit installer...
- justsomehnguy 4y agoHah! That's even better (and you can have snapshots and all benefits of VM), but in case you don't know - for InstallShield stubs there are replacements which allows the installer to run on WOW64 systems.