Alberto, Perhaps you would kindly allow those of us who have older machines, still running win98 (as I do for / portable work..) to run the old versions, which work just fine, beyond the expiry date. Thanks Mark GM4ISM www.dc2light.co.uk
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alberto I2PHD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "winrad discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 11:38 AM Subject: Re: [Winrad] Winrad on Win95se > Jeffrey Pawlan wrote: >> I have confirmed that the new version of Winrad 1.24 does indeed have a >> fatal >> problem on win95se. >> >> I ran winrad v1.2 and also 1.22 build 27 and they worked perfectly. I >> then >> installed 1.24 on top of it and got the error: Resource BUTTON39ON not >> found. >> And the area where the selector buttons should be is just a grey box. >> Those older versions expire and stop working on 31 March so you can use >> them >> until he fixes the problem in the new release. >> >> Alberto is working on a presentation for a SDR conference so he probably >> won't >> have time to look at this for 10-15 days. > > Hello everybody, > > I am quite sorry to say that Winrad is no more tested nor compatible > with Win98/95.... these are dead operating > systems, and in the development of Winrad I had the need to use features > of the operating system that were present only > on Windows 2000/XP but not on the older versions. I was faced with the > decision of using alternate, less efficient, ways > of doing what I was in need to do, or to abandon altogether the support of > 98/95. > > My choice was the latter, also considering that many other similar > programs did take the same way. > C'mon guys... a few months ago I upgraded an old 700 MHz Athlon PC from > Win98 to WinXP and I was surprised seeing that, > contrary to what I was expecting, it seemed to run a bit faster than > before. So the myth that old machines cannot run XP > for performance reasons, is just that, a myth... add to this the fact that > Microsoft has closed the support for Win98, > and that the drivers for new hardware are compatible only with 2000/XP, > and you will see that there are good reasons for > leaving Windows 98/95 behind our shoulders. > > 73 Alberto I2PHD > > > > _______________________________________________ > Winrad mailing list > [email protected] > http://winrad.org/mailman/listinfo/winrad_winrad.org > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.7/710 - Release Date: 04/03/2007 > 13:58 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.7/710 - Release Date: 04/03/2007 13:58 _______________________________________________ Winrad mailing list [email protected] http://winrad.org/mailman/listinfo/winrad_winrad.org
