Hello,
It's annoying but Named Variable Object isn't working on Windows 98. When the MMF application starts, a popup say "Cannot load nvar.mfx".
Does NVO use any system function not supported by Win98?
ouly
Hello,
It's annoying but Named Variable Object isn't working on Windows 98. When the MMF application starts, a popup say "Cannot load nvar.mfx".
Does NVO use any system function not supported by Win98?
ouly
Apparently. :P
Seriously, why would anybody on earth still use Windows 98 though? XP is the minimum, I suppose. It is still supported by most applications and very common.
I personally woul have said that ME was the minimum for this half-decade, i'm an XP user btw; anyway he should upgrade to Xp or Vista or even Windows 7.
Microsoft themselves stopped supporting Windows 98 and Windows ME over three years ago.
It's unreasonable to expect anyone else to still support them, especially as the majority of software for them is written in Microsoft's own Visual Studio, which also no longer supports those OSs.
I'm on XP/Vista too and I know MS doesn't support Win98 anymore. But there is still Win98 users on earth and you cannot say them "please change your OS/PC to use this application".
It's my opinion.
And it's unreasonable for you to say "remake this application to work with out-of-date OS/PC".
Because to do so, they not only have to buy a PC like yours to test on, but also buy different versions of anything they used during development which no longer supports that OS. i.e. Visual C++.
Yes it's not unreasonable for me to ask this. Firstly because z33z can say no if it's too hard, too long or anything else. Secondly because it's NVO is a data storage extension so system call are probably not numerous.
I'm working with Visual C++ 2005 and extensions build with it work nicely on Win98. I know that it can be hard to keep compatibility and I try to do so in my apps. So yes, I understand that it's difficult but I'm not totally disconnected with what I ask.
ouly
well its encrypted save file feature doesn't work on my computer either, and I'm running Vista ):
He's probably using Visual C++ 2008 then. MS supported Windows 98 until 2006, so anything after that (including MS office, visual studio, and everything) now doesn't support Windows 98.Originally Posted by ouly
I'm pretty sure even the current version of the Windows Platform SDK doesn't support Windows 98.
I repeat: You can't expect anyone to support something that the creator doesn't even support.
1) The file encryption bug was fixed and sent to Yves to be updated some months ago. Maybe he has forgot about that.
2) Win98 support: It's Yves who compiles the extensions, I don't know which version of Visual Studio he uses. I just fix things and give him the code.If you've got depends.exe you can see which dll causes nvar.mfx to not load. But I don't think it uses any function not supported by Win98.
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