Hi Shaun, I am afraid I don't follow your logic here. I don't see what waiting for Jim Kitchen, GMA, Aprone, etc to upgrade to VB .NET or whatever has to do with you upgrading to say Windows 7. The fact of the matter is most of their games, the current ones written in VB 6, run fine on Windows 7 as is. So I don't see why you or anyone would have to wait.
For example, I have three different computers currently running Windows 7 and a lot of those games run fine on them provided the VB 6 runtime libraries are installed and User Account Control is disabled. Right now I am on a laptop with Windows 7 and this computer has Lone Wolf, Tank Commander, Shades of Doom, Monkey Business, Sarah, Castaways, and just about all of Jim Kitchen's games installed on it. So I don't really get why you couldn't just use Windows 7 right now. Cheers! On 4/30/13, shaun everiss <sm.ever...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi tom. > Don't take this wrongly but I know several devs jim kitchen, aprone, > I think gma maybe a few more that still use 6. > If all devs dropped 6 and went to whatever I would have no issue with > upgrading! > Yes I realise some of them are upgrading but not all. > You guys need to realise that the only reason we even bother with vb6 > these days is that you guys write in it still. > I wouldn't care if we went to vb dotnet. > my win7 system has 3.51 and 4.5 right now! > My xp system has all of them ofcause oh my win7 system does have 1.1 > sp1 but thats it really. > I think most of us are ready to switch. > Would I pay for a dos emulator? > If it came with a bunch of games, I would. > probably no more than 10-15 bucks but I'd gladly buy a worth while > emulator especially if I could use all the older stuff from yesteryear. > I probably wouldn't pay more than 15-20 though for it. > I am no programmer but dosbox being accessable sounds like > a community project to me though I can't program. > All we would need to do is have either some dll that could support 16 > bit apps or simply be having a windows console app what could run 16 > bit apps but onvert them to 32 bit like go32 cwsmi or dos4gw if we > had a wrapper like that that would rock. > Or even making the programs think they were running in 16 bits but > actually run them at 64 bits. > How long would it take ot write or get a good enough > converter/wrapper and a console program. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
