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PB and windows 95?
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 2:30 pm
by alanuk
I need to run 2 computers back to back for testing a program in PB. It's an old 300meg with a maestro soundcard. The only drivers I can find are for windows 95. I have windows98 loaded at the moment and am wondering if PB will run under windows 95 OS?
Any comments welcomed.
Alan
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 2:55 pm
by patrick88
that's work, with sometimes of the odd errors which do not arrive under win2k... but my config for work under win95, is Cyrix 586-100 and 8mb of ram....
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 5:38 pm
by blueznl
most 95 drivers work under 98 as well
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 6:03 pm
by blueznl
and you might even install the dos drivers and simply tell windows it's an old sb compatible
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 6:48 pm
by Karbon
Since 95 isn't in the "supported" OS list of PB I wouldn't count on it working very well..
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 10:33 pm
by Danilo
Karbon wrote:Since 95 isn't in the "supported" OS list of PB I wouldn't count on it working very well..
From the PB help:
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System requirements
PureBasic will run on any Windows based system (which includes:
Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000 and Windows XP).
If there are any problems please contact us.
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 11:27 pm
by Karbon
*takes foot out of mouth*
I stand corrected!
Re: PB and windows 95?
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 4:24 am
by PB
> am wondering if PB will run under windows 95 OS?
Yes. I use it under 95 to code and test my apps written in PB. Naturally,
some API commands don't work under Win 95, but if you're not using API
commands, then no problem.
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 10:13 am
by alanuk
Thanks everyone for your comments. I must make sure I don't use API in the code.
Alan
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2004 10:24 am
by Danilo
alanuk wrote:I must make sure I don't use API in the code.
Win95 still has some thousand API commands you can use.
Nearly all API functions you can use with PB are core API
commands that also work on Win9x.
Just see the help (MSDN/PSDK) for the API functions you use.
If you use the Win32.hlp with the PB-Editor, you are on the
safe side because this help file is very old (1996) and all
functions in it are available on Win95.
From the 8.000+ API functions you can directly access in
PureBasic are *at least* 99% available on Win95 too.
