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On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 14:05:10 +0100, "Craig Coope"
<coop...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I once found on Kazaa a 20 meg or so file that claimed to be WC1&2 that has
> been updated to run in Windows at the proper speed on current PCs...(I
> didn't download it tho)
> 
> Was this true?

That sounds, offhand, like a copy of the version of Kilrathi Saga
WC1/2 available on the Underdogs site.  It's a castrated version,
however, as it doesn't have the digital music (one of the bigger
reasons for KS's existence).

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"Death" <look@my.reply-to.address> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 14:05:10 +0100, "Craig Coope"
> <coop...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I once found on Kazaa a 20 meg or so file that claimed to be WC1&2 that
has
> > been updated to run in Windows at the proper speed on current PCs...(I
> > didn't download it tho)
> >
> > Was this true?
>
> That sounds, offhand, like a copy of the version of Kilrathi Saga
> WC1/2 available on the Underdogs site.  It's a castrated version,
> however, as it doesn't have the digital music (one of the bigger
> reasons for KS's existence).
>
> SubCrid Death

Yeah it says in the description that it has no music....which does kinda
suck...it's just that I have no idea how to get old DOS games to run at a
normal speed on today's PCs...plus I can't get my soundcard to work with DOS
stuff under Windows ME or get the extended meory to run...it was a lot
easier with Win98....

--
The Zero ST

"Craig Coope" <coop...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
...plus I can't get my soundcard to work with DOS
> stuff under Windows ME or get the extended meory to run...it was a lot
> easier with Win98....
>
> --
> The Zero ST
>
>

In that case I can refer you to the VDMSound homepage, which is basically a
utility for loading DOS games under Windows XP, 2000 and NT with full sound
support. Check it out at http://ntvdm.cjb.net/

Gilles

Gilles Glorieux wrote:

>>stuff under Windows ME or get the extended meory to run...it was a lot
>>easier with Win98....
> In that case I can refer you to the VDMSound homepage, which is basically a
> utility for loading DOS games under Windows XP, 2000 and NT with full sound
> support. Check it out at http://ntvdm.cjb.net/

He said Win ME. VDMSound won't run there. I dunno why it worked in Win 
98 and not in ME however. They should be similar enough.

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Windows NT for mission-critical applications."
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>
> He said Win ME. VDMSound won't run there. I dunno why it worked in Win
> 98 and not in ME however. They should be similar enough.
>

Sorry I thought 2000 and ME were the same. Apparantly not. Excuse my
ignorance. But it's still useful information for other people.

Cheers
Gilles

Gilles Glorieux <gillesg...@pandora.be> wrote:

:>
:> He said Win ME. VDMSound won't run there. I dunno why it worked in Win
:> 98 and not in ME however. They should be similar enough.
:>

: Sorry I thought 2000 and ME were the same. Apparantly not. Excuse my
: ignorance. But it's still useful information for other people.


Windows MMillenniumm Edition (WinME, ME) is based on Win98, so it's a Win9x OS
Windows 2000 (Win2k, 2k) is actually Windows NT 5 (NT5), and is based on NT.
Windows XP (WinXP, XP) is NT 5.1
Windows 2003 (Win2k3, 2003) used to be called Windows.NET, and is NT 5.5, but is not 
"longhorn", which is Windows 2004/2005/2006/2007 (2004 earliest, 2007 maybe...) or NT6
(and they've delayed integrating the product lines again... 2003 will not have 
consumer/professional versions... longhorn/blackcombe will in the second half of the decade 
sometime...)

personal       - professional              - server

ROM BASIC      + DOS                       + Xenix             - 1982
DOS            + DOS&TopView               + Xenix             - 1984
DOS            + DOS                       + LAN Manager       - 1986
DOS            + OS/2                      + LAN Manager       - 1988
DOS&Win3.x     + OS/2                      + LAN Manager       - 1990
DOS&Win3.x     + DOS&WFW                   + LAN Manager       - 1992
DOS&Win3.x/WFW + WinNT3.x Workstation      + WinNT3.x Server   - 1994
Win9x          + NT4 Workstation           + NT4 Server        - 1997
Win00          + Win2k Professional        + Win2k Server      - 2000
WinXP Home     + WinXP Pro                 + Win2003 Server    - 2003
longhorn (NT6) + longhorn/blackcombe (NT6) + blackcombe (NT6)  - 2005? 2006? 2007?


NT 0.0  == MSDOS286 == OS/2 0.0
NT 1.0  == OS/2 1.0
NT 2.0  == OS/2 2.0
NT 3.0  == OS/2 3 project (portable OS/2) ; not OS/2 WARP 3.0
NT 3.1  -- first version
NT 3.5  -- first widely used version
NT 3.51 -- version with most hardware platforms supported
NT 4.x  -- version where they never changed the version number...
Win2000 == NT 5.0
WinXP   == NT 5.1
Win2003 == NT 5.5
3D Windows -- NT6 project (blackcombe, longhorn)