It's time for me to mention my story and what brings me to this site.
I'm a long-time XP fan. I consider XP not just a great version of Windows for its time, but the best version ever, even today. If hardware and software vendors weren't dropping support for it at an alarming rate (Steam has 130 days of XP compatibility left), I wouldn't touch any other versions of Windows for the rest of my life. When I built my most recent computer last year, I specifically chose older components for which I knew XP drivers existed, like a 700-series Geforce card and an AMD A68 motherboard, so that I could run XP natively and not worry about driver issues.
Blizzard's decision to leave XP behind was a major factor in my decision to quit World of Warcraft. I'm currently feeling the crunch of Facebook making constant changes to its code that only the most recent versions of browsers can correctly handle, while those same browsers are dropping XP support. My choices are Firefox 52 (current version is 61), Chrome 49 (Current version is 68), Opera 36 (current version is 55), Pale Moon 26 (current version is 28), and a parade of increasingly obscure and unreputable variations thereof. I started experimenting with multi-boot systems two or three years ago in an effort to squeeze a few more years of use out of XP, and am currently satisfied with triple-booting WinXP x64, Win8.1, and Linux Mint 19.
I knew that I can't keep this up forever. I figured that sooner or later, I won't be able to run XP except in VMware or Virtualbox on top of some other OS, probably Linux. I knew that eventually my XP x64 disk will eventually degrade and become unreadable and there won't be any more copies in online stores at ANY price (even the copy that I bought years ago was nearly impossible to find at the time). But a few weeks ago... I found React. The idea of "XP reborn", of a free and open-source XP clone for which support will never end, gives me hope. More importantly, it gives me ideas. One of those ideas is inspired by WINE. It seems to me that, if a compatibility layer can be used to get Windows software to work in LINUX of all things, then it shouldn't be too much of a challenge to create a compatibility layer that would allow running NT 6.x programs on XP. Such a piece of software would be a godsend to XP users, especially if React never reaches v1.0, AND it would allow NT 6.x programs to run on React without needing to redesign React as an outright NT 6.x clone.
Side project: Compatibility layer for running NT 6.x software on NT 5.x
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Re: Side project: Compatibility layer for running NT 6.x software on NT 5.x
Welcome to the forum!
Have no fear, there's a plan for beyond XP! https://reactos.org/wiki/Missing_ReactOS_Functionality
Of course, it's first things first.
Have no fear, there's a plan for beyond XP! https://reactos.org/wiki/Missing_ReactOS_Functionality
Of course, it's first things first.
Re: Side project: Compatibility layer for running NT 6.x software on NT 5.x
There is a shim compatibility in progress...
If you are hurry you can test "One-Core API" compatibility layer, but it is a third party software without any relantionship with ReactOS project.
If you are hurry you can test "One-Core API" compatibility layer, but it is a third party software without any relantionship with ReactOS project.
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Re: Side project: Compatibility layer for running NT 6.x software on NT 5.x
A software we disallowed any mention here due to it's unknown and questionable code origin. As long as there is no guarantee that the code is clean, we prefer to keep this software on betaarchive's dirty as F*CK forums.
ReactOS is still in alpha stage, meaning it is not feature-complete and is recommended only for evaluation and testing purposes.
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Re: Side project: Compatibility layer for running NT 6.x software on NT 5.x
Whoa... I had no idea that such projects as "Shorthorn" actually existed! I will definitely try this out... probably in a virtual machine within Linux, for safety reasons
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