21 Apr
2015
21 Apr
'15
1:25 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctech [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of geneb
Sent: 21 April 2015 18:56
To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts
Subject: RE: Visual Basic Question
On Tue, 21 Apr 2015, Dave G4UGM wrote:
> The phrase "standard Windows 16bit DLLs" means Windows 3.1 DLLs. Such
> DLL's no longer work in a modern windows. If they directly access the
> hardware then they will not work on any NT based windows such as
> Windows/2000, Windows/XP, Vista, or 7, 8 or 9. Nor will they work on
> any 64-Bit windows full stop. 64-Bit windows does not support 16-bit
code.
If you have a
Windows/95, 98 or ME environment then the code may work.
They should work with 32 bit versions of windows as the 16 bit thunking still present. YMMV of course.
What I said was:-
" If they directly access the hardware then they will not work on any NT
based windows such as..."
As they are interfacing to external hardware I assume they access the
hardware directly...
g.
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