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LitusSaxonicum · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2018 8:59 pm Post subject:

Not a daft question, John. Also not a daft question is how many variants or options are there in FTN95?

A 32-bit version
A 64-bit version that appears to have been developed from scratch
A .NET version, with multiple plug-ins
Clearwin+ for 32 and 64 bit versions
Visual Clearwin
Plato
... and to save me listing them, versions of linker, debugger, library manager, SCION blah blah blah. Remember that it isn't just doing bug fixes, but also coping with the changes imposed by MS in Windows and Visual Studio, AND developing new facilities.

Based on a sample of one, I find it hard to believe that any user requires everything, or that any user requires absolutely every facility even in the subset of FTN95 that they use. So it is easy to say things like: "I don't know why they bother with X ..." when perhaps X is vital to another user.

Frankly, I don't know how they do it, and Paul deserves enormous credit for his role in keeping it all going.

Eddie

DanRRight · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2018 10:24 am Post subject:

Have anyone tested Solar Kingdom demo? It complains about missing d3drm.dll

silverfrost · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2018 4:48 pm Post subject:

I don't think Solar Kingdom works on recent operating systems. Microsoft decided to not ship d3drm.dll any more and it is key to the program. A few years ago we copied the dll from an older OS and it did work...