Last Version of Software for Windows 8.1

[Cocodile]

3 hours ago, yoltboy01 said:

 

I didn‘t mean to offend anyone/anything . My bad I guess? Sorry. 

Nothing to be sorry about, I meant just better to post in a separate topic to avoid questions like this one, which people will ask anyways.

[Karla Sleutel]

I wonder what is the last Brave that works on Wind.8.1?

[AstroSkipper]

14 minutes ago, Karla Sleutel said:

I wonder what is the last Brave that works on Wind.8.1?

Hello @Karla Sleutel! Here is the official statement from Brave: 
https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/11197967945613-Sunsetting-support-for-Windows-7-and-8-8-1

Cheers, AstroSkipper 

[ceo54]

16 hours ago, Dixel said:

Of course it needs to be patched, you'll have to patch Opera.dll with CFF explorer and switch off the sandbox with the cmd flag —no-sandbox, this will make the browser insecure, but it will load pages.

I guess it's fine, but only if you visit sites you 100% trust.

Thank you for the response. I already changes DisableVirtualAlloc and running with --no-sandbox flag but it doesn't work. Doesn't even start.

 

Any other ideas ?

[mjd79]

You need to replace DiscardVirtualMemory with VirtualAlloc or VirtualAllocEx....

[ceo54]

20 hours ago, mjd79 said:

You need to replace DiscardVirtualMemory with VirtualAlloc or VirtualAllocEx....

Yeah, I swapped DiscardVirtualMemroy with VirtualAlloc but it crashes as soon as it's started.

[mjd79]

On 10/8/2023 at 1:19 PM, ceo54 said:

Yeah, I swapped DiscardVirtualMemroy with VirtualAlloc but it crashes as soon as it's started.

In addition, you need DWrite.dll ported from Windows 10.

[Dixel]

9 hours ago, mjd79 said:

In addition, you need DWrite.dll ported from Windows 10.

Good point, but it then will involve adding missing stub DLLs. no? I didn't try myself on Win 8, but I kind of gussed it will not be finished with just replacing virtualalloc.

[mjd79]

1 hour ago, Dixel said:

Good point, but it then will involve adding missing stub DLLs. no? I didn't try myself on Win 8, but I kind of gussed it will not be finished with just replacing virtualalloc.

In Windows 8.1, the missing imports in DWrite.dll can be replaced with kernel32.dll

 

Edited October 10, 2023 by mjd79

[Dixel]

4 hours ago, mjd79 said:

In Windows 8.1, the missing imports in DWrite.dll can be replaced with kernel32.dll

 

Wouldn't exactly classify as "Software for Windows 8.1" more like "Modded Software for Windows 8.1".

The fonts look smudged, is it the usaul case with 8/8.1, the same ugly/blurry fonts, like in Windows 7?

[ceo54]

On 10/10/2023 at 11:48 PM, mjd79 said:

In Windows 8.1, the missing imports in DWrite.dll can be replaced with kernel32.dll

 

HI, I've sent you a PM. Please check, if possible. Thanks.

[mjd79]

54 minutes ago, ceo54 said:

HI, I've sent you a PM. Please check, if possible. Thanks.

I don't see anything in my DM box.

[FantasyAcquiesce]

Can anyone check which version of Cool Reader 3 works on Windows Vista/7/8.1?

I tried running it on my Windows 8.1, but it only crashed.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/crengine/

[ceo54]

8 hours ago, mjd79 said:

I don't see anything in my DM box.

Ah! apologies, I just used the last PM thread we had and didn't notice that you left the conversation.

Creating new PM thread now.

[mina7601]

13 hours ago, FantasyAcquiesce said:

Can anyone check which version of Cool Reader 3 works on Windows Vista/7/8.1?

I tried running it on my Windows 8.1, but it only crashed.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/crengine/

The latest version of Cool Reader 3 works fine on all Windows OSes you mentioned. I don't get any crashes.