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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 09:38:57 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   Sometimes I wish I had normal computer problems instead of "what's the latest version of python I can run on NT4"

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 09:40:07 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     2.5, apparently

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 09:41:23 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Officially. There's a 2.7 for win95 that might work

   • Adriano (adriano@lile.cl)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 09:52:37 JST Adriano

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     @foone have I got the book for you

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 09:52:37 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Adriano

     @adriano I once checked my university's library for a python book and while they had one, all the screenshots showed windows 3.1.
     This was in 2006

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 09:55:04 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I've got some software I need to distribute that depends on some NT4-only software but the NT4-only software is only available (to me) in a pre-installed form.
     So I basically need to rebuild the installer for the software. And I'd like to make that as easy as possible.

     Unfortunately it's the kind of software where installing involves a lot of registry changes and service registrations and COM components and such

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 09:56:16 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     So I need to reverse engineer what changes it made/needed and then write an installer for all that shit

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 10:07:36 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Raven667

     @raven667 yeah! The problem is that I don't have the installer. I just have a machine with it already installed

   • Raven667 (raven667@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 10:07:37 JST Raven667

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     @foone you are probably aware, and this doesn't help but you reminded me that there was a whole category of software which would monitor installers and repackage the registry changes to build installers or uninstall completely. Novell had one that worked with NetWare NDS to create install images by diffing reg and fs, Quarterdeck had one too

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 10:17:46 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Frances Larina

     @Frances_Larina it's a possibility. I don't know innosetup so I don't know how hard it'd be to port everything I need to it.

   • Frances Larina (frances_larina@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 10:17:47 JST Frances Larina

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     @foone

     "as easy as possible"

     You might try InnoSetup?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 10:41:04 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • PG&E Delenda Est
     • Raven667

     @xarph @raven667 that's a good idea! I'll have to check.

   • PG&E Delenda Est (xarph@rusty.cat)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 10:41:05 JST PG&E Delenda Est

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     • Raven667

     @foone @raven667 does the machine still have the uninstall entry in add/remove programs? Maybe the uninst.exe is still around and you can go in reverse.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 08:18:18 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Eppie

     @eppie I totally understand

   • Eppie (eppie@furries.club)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 08:18:19 JST Eppie

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     @foone Gosh yeah. I've tried many times to get Minecraft (or related open source alternatives, or Better Than Adventure) working on Windows98SE, and a Diamond Stealth III S540 graphics card, on paper it should work but it seems to not see the latest version of OpenGL that the card supports?

     And why am I trying to do this? I just want to for the lols