[TowerTalk] Maybe OT

[Lux, Jim]

On 10/26/21 7:21 AM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote:
> I still have an original official CD of Visio 2000, for example.
> It installs and runs perfectly under Windows 10.  So you may
> be pleasantly surprised how long EZNEC lasts.  Be sure to archive
> both your original setup.exe file and the final update 6.0.34,
> so that you can install it on future machines.
>
> Rick N6RK 


I run plenty of old software on Windows - As long as it doesn't depend 
on specific hardware or device drivers it works pretty well (and EZNEC 
does't) - the programs that will have trouble are ones that "touch" the 
hardware - Serial ports and, most particularly, USB dongles that provide 
serial ports, are going to be a problem. Parallel port programs.

One area you might have trouble with (don't know about EZNEC) is 
graphics - if your program uses DirectX, for instance.

I did a test just now with an old set of .exe from the Antenna Book.  
AAT (1997) did not run, because incompatible with 64 bit (maybe there's 
a trick to it)


HFTA (2003) didn't run - it needs some component (TeeChart.ocx)

However, some of these things might be because I need to run setup.exe 
again. (that is, I have the installed version from when I ran it years 
ago, and I may not have copied all the stuff in system or system32..