BogdanV

Cheers! Finally, the last question and I won't be spamming this place any more Apparently OS version spoofing doesn't seem to be covered by KEx. Is there an official, generic way for achieving this (I know, for specific cases - Orca for .msi packages, hex editor for the oddball out there)? Because, case in point, for Firefox ESR 52.9.0, the installer aborted because it complained that its not running under XP. I remember that at least for WinMe there was an option to spoof the OS version in a way similar to how shims work. I extracted the package and ran FF from there but I'm thinking there might be a more elegant way for some apps than this. I mean, especially if, say app X requires a specific API function that was added in Win XP but deprecated in Vista or app Y requires a specific API function that was added in Vista but deprecated in 7. EDIT: Already answered in the previous post.

Yes, I'm aware of the native shim implementation - what I'm saying is that, from what I remember (albeit this was probably on Win9x), KernelEx expanded the compatibility modes to include stuff like XP, Vista etc. or is this irrelevant to the way the system currently works? Also, just to confirm - the two links above are the current sources for latest updates on the platform, right? I'm asking because I remember there being other sources out there like MDGx's site but I haven't seen that one mentioned here in any recent posts.

A bunch of questions from someone who's been out of the loop for the past ~5 years - sorry if its been asked before (I tried digging through countless posts and threads but I couldn't find this explicitly stated anywhere, only implied as common knowledge I guess): If I understand correctly, Windows2000-KB935839-v13i-x86-ENU.EXE contains the latest (at the moment of writing) version of KernelEx. Well, I tried searching for it on: - http://win2k.org/wlu/wluen.htm - https://twilczynski.com/windows/updates/ ...and I couldn't find anything. The only version of KernelEx I've found was via win2k.org and that was v30eM. Am I missing something obvious here? Also, I remember (been away for a good couple of years) there used to be a Compatibility tab injected in .exe app properties pages. I haven't seen this anymore. Should I presume that once you install KernelEx, that's it? Also, since I'm here, taking the opportunity to ask what is the latest version of Firefox that's supposed to work with KEx because on the thread with the "latest supported versions of software", Firefox support is listed as "on-going" yet I got the Win32 API method "RtlSetLastWin32Error" not found. Thanks!

Hm... I was afraid it might not be possible . Alas, I could create a VS2005 solution and just keep both codebases in sync. Sure, it's going to be a bit of a pain having to recreate all the project settings but its good that I'm doing it while still early in development and not further down the road.

Its been a while since I last posted around these places. I'm building a 3D engine from scratch using only SDL and since I had a gameport compatible joystick I thought it would be awesome to port it over to Windows 98 and run some performance tests as well on my K6-2 PC. Do you folk know if the Microsoft Compiler from VS2013 can output Win98-compatible code? Or what options would I have to compile for this platform? I'm fairly sure my dependencies are compatible and my code is C98 compatible.