Hi Jim, Ah, but we aren't so different really. If I want to play your games on Windows 7, which I do, I have to install Winkit to get the backwards compatibility runtime libraries for VB. Well, if you want to play my games on XP you have to install the latest Visual C++ Runtime libraries. Either one is not very big, and according to the Microsoft website the full Visual C++ runtime install is 6 MB. That's nothin' compared to installing the Java 6 Runtime Environment which is like 40 MB last I checked or the .Net Framework upgrades that are close to 300 MB now. The major difference between what you do and I do is you still use Visual Basic 6 and I use Visual C++ 2008 along with the Windows Platform SDK to write my games. I need the Visual Basic Runtime to play your games and you need the Visual C++ Runtime to play mine. It is not a big deal really. As for Jaws 4.02, yeah, that's pretty ancient. There is a lot of applications it does not support like Mozilla Firefox 3.6, Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft Office 2007, and so on. You couldn't even think about upgrading to Windows 7 without a major Jaws upgrade to Jaws 11 which would be extremely expensive for you sinceyou are so far behind on updates. You'd pretty much have to use an open source alternative like NVDA instead if cost is a major factor in upgrading. I'm not going to argue with your choices and decisions as you have what you obviously like. Willem and I feel differently. I for one really like Firefox and hardly ever use Internet Explorer. That is of course a personal decision, because I feel it is more secure and I love the multitab browsing ability. Of course, Internet Explorer 8 now has multitab browsing too, but as with everything else Microsoft got the idea from someone else and now tries to passit off as their own idea. Sounds like another screen reader I know that goes by the name of Jaws. They pretty much got several of their features by copying innovations from other screen reader manufacturers and passed those updates off to their customers as new ideas who were ignorant of what the other screen reader manufacturers were doing.
Smile. On 7/9/10, Jim Kitchen <j...@kitchensinc.net> wrote: > Hi Willem, > > My computer including Internet Explorer are working great! for me now. I > have not heard one reason that I should up grade my computer other than some > games would require it. And since I am running JFW 4.02 I am pretty sure > that I would no longer be able to use many of the newer programs that > Windows up dates would install. You know such as Internet Explorer, Windows > Media Player etc etc. > > BTW you nor anyone else would need to up grade their computer to run any of > my games. Well unless maybe if they are running Windows 98, 95 or 3.1. My > games are all good to go on XP, Vista and Windows 7. Well ok, you need to > do my WinKit.zip install for Vista and Windows 7, but my games really are > designed to run with what the WinKit installs anyway. > > TGIF and BFN --- 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
