RedTrac Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 (edited) Iv been suffering with XP MCE for about a year and half now and iv had to reinstall it 3 times, it just keeps going wrong, I never had thes problems with 98.Im really more fully a RISC OS user, but there's some stuff that I specificaly need Windows for.My questions are:Whats the latest version of Open Office I can run on 98?andWhats the latest Real Player released for 98?Thanks,Redtrac Edited May 22, 2008 by RedTrac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenoitRen Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 The latest version of OpenOffice works on Windows 98. Perhaps even on Windows 95, as recently it still did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sfor Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 All OpenOffice 2 versions are working in Windows 98.Windows 95 lets to run just the OpenOffice 1.The OpenOffice 3 is in the beta stage. I found nothing particular about changes in support for Windows systems, so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainyd Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 Open Office 2.xx works without problem under Win98.I've seen a stupid proposal to remove support for Win98/ME in Open Office 3.0 but as far as I know beta version could be run on those older systems too.As for Real Player: I do not recommend using it - it's one of the crappiest players ever! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedTrac Posted May 22, 2008 Author Share Posted May 22, 2008 (edited) Thanks.As for Real Player: I do not recommend using it - it's one of the crappiest players ever!I got to agree with you on that. It was just that I was using it to download youtube videos, but I now realise that there are other methods of doing so. Edited May 22, 2008 by RedTrac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredledingue Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 Thanks.As for Real Player: I do not recommend using it - it's one of the crappiest players ever!I got to agree with you on that. It was just that I was using it to download youtube videos, but I now realise that there are other methods of doing so.Youtube video play fines, embedded in webpages.If you know how to store youtube videos on the hard disk for off-line viewing please post it here because theoricaly you can't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenoitRen Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 Windows 95 lets to run just the OpenOffice 1.BZZT! Wrong!Officially version 1.1.4 is the last to run under Windows 95, but that's just laziness talking. The ONLY thing preventing version 2.x to run under Windows 95 is the IsDebuggerPresent API call, which the program doesn't even use. Patch that and everything's fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 Thanks.As for Real Player: I do not recommend using it - it's one of the crappiest players ever!I got to agree with you on that. It was just that I was using it to download youtube videos, but I now realise that there are other methods of doing so.Youtube video play fines, embedded in webpages.If you know how to store youtube videos on the hard disk for off-line viewing please post it here because theoricaly you can't.Well, VDownloader does just that, and works well with Win 98SE (at least up to v. 0.61, v 0.7 is out but I didn't try it still). And for other things RealPlayer does, google for RealAltenative, it rocks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chozo4 Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 Youtube video play fines, embedded in webpages.If you know how to store youtube videos on the hard disk for off-line viewing please post it here because theoricaly you can't.http://vixy.netA web based video extractor for youtube and other services. It can download+convert to mpg, mp4, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainyd Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 It was just that I was using it to download youtube videos, but I now realise that there are other methods of doing so.I'm using for that Firefox extension called DownloadHelper. You can find it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herbalist Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 There's software available for just about everything that runs on 98. See Last Versions of Software for Windows 98SE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRedFox Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 I'd recommend Foobar2000 0.8.3 for a music player, and media player classic for video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedTrac Posted May 24, 2008 Author Share Posted May 24, 2008 Thanks you all your help, I will try those out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlotteTheHarlot Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 Youtube video play fines, embedded in webpages.If you know how to store youtube videos on the hard disk for off-line viewing please post it here because theoricaly you can't.http://vixy.netA web based video extractor for youtube and other services. It can download+convert to mpg, mp4, etc.In addition to that, there is another web-based tool called KeepVid. Paste in the address of the page with the embedded video and it returns a discombobulated link suitable for direct downloading or cueing up in GetRight among other things.To play these FLV and other media files offline there is a great free media player called GOM on this webpage. Not sure if it plays RA or RM or RV or whatever extension Real uses nowadays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetroOS Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 VLC media player will play most media including FLV and QuickTime 7 MOV:http://www.videolan.org/vlc/I use it as my QuickTime player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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