Visual Basic Question

[Dave G4UGM]

> -----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
layer is
> 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...


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