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Shannon V. OKeets -> RE: Hardware and software prerequisites (12/17/2009 11:57:37 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Paerhc
I now see how stupid my question was. Of course you will test it on Windows 7!
[:-] Please, never consider a question stupid. I don't. If the question pops into your head, it almost certainly has popped into the heads of others too. Not all questions come from kernels of wisdom, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be answered.
As I related to another forum member who sent me an email today, my new system (due for delivery today) runs under Win 7. But the target operating system for MWIF is Win XP. That's because XP programs can be run under Vista and Win 7 without problems, if you use XP emulation. That's something the beta testers have tested. I will be testing it some more myself once I get the new system up and running. I also have a Vista machine (portable) I use for testing purposes. It might be possible to run MWIF on a MAC using XP emulation. My wife uses a MAC so I'll probably get around to testing that some day too.
The new system I am putting together includes Delphi 2010 which should enable me to generate an executable for Win 7 (if I am not mistaken). I need to play around with that though. Marketing material is such a poor indicator of a software's capabilities. I'll see what Delphi 2010 can do with MWIF code and then go from there. Hopefully, the MWIF.exe will be able to take advantage of dual and quad core machines to run multiple threads efficiently. For example, the AIO will run as a separate thread while the player is fiddling around with the mouse and keyboard.
But as an obsolute minimum, MWIF will run on XP and Window systems that can run XP emulation.
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