Re: Re: 3.19b not compatible with Windows XP?
By: fusion to cadeon on Fri Jul 08 2022 05:51 pm
> ca> > ... now I see that archive.dll requires bcrypt.dll which isn't
> ca> > included either.
> ca> If we need to bail on XP I feel like we can? It doesn't seem like
> ca> there's a lot of love for it.
> i obviously don't decide what amount of effort crosses that line of "okay,
> we're done with xp now, you have to upgrade," but if it isn't a huge task,
> it's better to fix the things that keep it working as you go..
> otherwise the list gets huge and it ends up being "well, i guess at this
> point we basically just /have/ to say it doesn't support xp"
> imo "because i wanna" is good enough reason to use xp (in the context of
> bbsing/nostalgiacomputing)
> *shrug*
well windows 7 was a free upgrade for quite some time. and you can run it for
free in limited mode. furthermore windows 7 can run on some low specs. like
you can run it on about 500mb of memory on a 1ghz system.
so like i said, don't be a nick andre. people should run something more secure.
I don't care what firewall they claim to have it behind.
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