[Coco] DriveWire 4 on Window 98

[David Ladd]

Aaron,

Thank you for following up on this and letting us know our options for the
java versions and OS's.




On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> After investigating things, it seems there are 2 problems running DW4 on
> Win98.
>
> The first is the JVM version required.  This I have solved, and DW4
> now requires only version 1.5.  This will allow it to run on even
> older Linux and Mac machines, and allows the server and "lite" UI to
> run fine on Win 98 (the lite UI allows disks to be inserted/removed
> and little else, similar to the DW3 software).
>
> However, to run the full featured UI there is also a problem with the
> native GUI library (SWT).  They dropped support for Win98 quite some
> time ago.
>
> In order to make the full DW4 UI run on Win98, I would have to use a
> very old version of SWT, which would potentially impact the more
> modern platforms negatively and limit the features we can use going
> forward.
>
> Given that Win98 is ~15 years old and unsupported by basically
> everything these days, I think we will have to follow suit and support
> only XP and above.  Note that even though Microsoft is dropping XP
> support early next year, there should be no problem supporting XP with
> DW4 for quite a long time, if ever.
>
> You can still run the server on a Win98 machine and use either the
> lite UI, the OS9 interface, the DW4Man program by Bill, or run the
> standard GUI on another more modern computer to control it.
>
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