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Ciderpress windows architecture 32 or 64?

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Leon Sargent

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Jul 6, 2019, 12:37:06 AM7/6/19
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Not all that familiar with Windows systems.

Does this work in 32 bit, 64 bit or is this software perhaps a dual binary for Windows XP through Windows 8?

Leon

Steve Nickolas

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Jul 6, 2019, 12:50:46 AM7/6/19
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64-bit Windows is compatible with 32-bit, but not 16-bit apps, and Windows
has usually been pretty good with backward compatibility in general. A
32-bit app for XP will probably work unmodified on 64-bit 10.

Can't speak for Ciderpress in particular but I currently use it on 64-bit
8.1 and 10.

-uso.

fadden

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Jul 6, 2019, 10:54:59 AM7/6/19
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On Friday, July 5, 2019 at 9:37:06 PM UTC-7, Leon Sargent wrote:
> Does this work in 32 bit, 64 bit or is this software perhaps a dual binary for Windows XP through Windows 8?

It's a 32-bit app. It'll work on 32-bit and 64-bit systems. (My dev system is Win10 x64.)

It's currently built with compilers and shipped with libraries that allow it to continue to work on WinXP systems. This significantly increases the size of the distribution binary, but I think there are still some WinXP users out there.

If I do a significant update to CP in the future I'll probably drop WinXP support, simply because I no longer have a working system to test it on. The older installers would still be available, e.g. you can download CP 3.0.1 if you want to run on Win98, but eventually Win7+ will be a requirement for new releases.

TomCh

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Jul 8, 2019, 6:21:23 AM7/8/19
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Similar to AppleWin: currently built with VS2008, so the exe will theoretically work on Win2000 and above. But I only test on Win7 & Win10.

NB. Win7 (support) EOL (end of life) is in 6 months' time:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/end-of-windows-7-support

Clearly there will still be users on Win7 for many years to come, but making Win7 the minimum "supported" OS will be the likely route for AppleWin too.

Antoine Vignau

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Jul 8, 2019, 1:17:36 PM7/8/19
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I am a Win XP user on my Parallels Windows VM. Frankly, I use Ciderpress (source code extract, I know, I have Cadius) more than Applewin (I have OpenEmulator) but...

Keep up the good work, Gentlemen, your software is great!

Antoine

ps. don't ask an Apple II user to upgrade to the latest Win or Mac OS?
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