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> Oregon Trail, a game made for Windows 95, still runs on Windows 11 Fatal error: MSVCRT70.DLL could not be found. But that's easy enough to fix, right? Just
by do_not_redeem 2y ago
> Oregon Trail, a game made for Windows 95, still runs on Windows 11
Fatal error: MSVCRT70.DLL could not be found.
But that's easy enough to fix, right? Just dig through Windows's package manager (sorry, I meant MSDN) trying to guess the right vcredist, and try a few and hope for the best.
- ryao 2y agoAlternatively, look it up by reading winetricks’ source code. Wait, would that be cheating considering that winetricks is a UNIX tool? Linux and UNIX systems in general are supposed to be harder, not easier, in comparison to Windows, right? For those unable to tell, I am using sarcasm in that last part.
- jasomill 2y agoThe Visual C++ .NET 2002 runtime shipped with Windows 95? To be fair, I've seen plenty of commercial Windows software ship over the years without runtime components required on the original supported OS (or with required redistributable components that had to be separately installed from the distribution CD-ROM for no well-explained reason).