Re: from elsewhere, an assembler


Jim Carlock wrote:

: Well, that's a good spot better than having them wait for me to
: completely rewrite the code. That's assuming, of course, that they
: want to take advantage of the new APIs for some reason. In reality,
: almost every OS upgrade I've seen (including Vista, thus far) tends
: to preserve the old APIs except in rare cases. E.g., every HLA
: program I've written seems to run just fine under Vista, without as
: much as a recompile.

Vista supposedly drops 16-bit support altogether.

When XP came out, while it's not API's per se for the applications,
the APIs(?) for the device drivers changed. I've got some devices
that work on Windows 3.1, W9x, NT3.5, and NT4 BUT fail on
W-XP (perhaps they are 8/16-bit drivers or perhaps they employed
a different device driver API?). Two of the devices are external disk
drives that hook up through a parallel port.

The main driver problem with XP seems to be the 'new' M$-strategy.
All drivers must have an M$ approved 'certificate' otherwise they
may not be accepted by the installer.
For win98se it was enough to say 'chigago'...

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wolfgang




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