bizzybody Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 All I want from Vista on XP, aside from the Sidebar, is the RTM version of Solitaire. I installed Alky 1.1, copied the Solitaire.exe over from my Vista Ultimate laptop then rightclicked, used the patch and run option and... nothing. Not even an error message.The beta version works... but it's a *beta version* with an out of position circle under the card pile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
submix8c Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 (edited) Have you tried this? (Google really helps...)<<--link removed by me-->><<--link removed by me-->>edit - and FWIW, same Google vista solitaireyields "it sux / buggy'/etc.Also, there is Solitaire and Spider Solitaire... I assume you mean the first one.<<--link removed by me-->> Edited March 17, 2013 by submix8c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bizzybody Posted March 2, 2013 Author Share Posted March 2, 2013 What's odd is I can't get the beta version Vista games to work anymore simply by dropping the emulation dll into system32. I found an updated version of the dll which worked for a while but then it quit too. Used to be I could do a clean XP SP3 install then run Autopatcher with all the updates to current then add that dll and setup the games.Now they only work with Alky installed. Dunno what Microsoft altered in some update or updates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
submix8c Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 Ummm... Forget Beta - does the OTHER one work? Why do you want Beta? Is it better or something?Sorry, I don't get your point. You asked, I replied. Work or not? Rationale for above post? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bizzybody Posted March 2, 2013 Author Share Posted March 2, 2013 I want the RTM versions. I already have the beta versions, which have been working on XP since before Vista was released to manufacturing. There was much noise made about getting the RTM versions working, along with other software that "requires" Vista, but nothing much since.Has anyone got any production release Vista software running on XP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
submix8c Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 (edited) OK, just to point this out to you, the actual GAMES had to be PATCHED to work.<<--link removed by me-->>You figure it out... I don't play games. Edited March 17, 2013 by submix8c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkRats Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 (edited) Here you go.h**p://www.filedropper.com/gamesVirus and Malware FreeRead the text note before doing anything.You have to place 2 files manually into directories before the games will run properly.Tested and used on my own system (XP SP3). Edited March 15, 2013 by DarkRats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
submix8c Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 Same files as listed in the links given? Beta versions? Patched? NOT RTM????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkRats Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 Sorry. Not RTM.Has anyone ever seen the (RTM) games separate from Vista? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bizzybody Posted March 16, 2013 Author Share Posted March 16, 2013 All I know about the RTM vista games is that after installing Alky 1.1 then copying the RTM version of the solitaire executable to XP, then right clicking and selecting either run vista executable or patch and run, doesn't work. Slecting Run does nothing at all, patch and run creates a manifest file, and nothing else happens. Would be nice if someone with the hack-fu know how would patch the RTM vista games executables like the beta versions were done. :-)Filedropper wouldn't let me download that. I tried Firefox, IE and Chrome, several times. It'd get to 20~26 megabytes then cut off the download.Blind sending? What decade does Filedropper think this is? Been a looooong time since I've run into a host that doesn't tell the browser the size of the file. Check out 4shared Free account gets you 15 gigabytes of space. You can select multiple files from other users' shared folders then save as a B1 file directly to your folder. Then you can download files from your account without the 20 second delay. 'Course you have to get the free B1 archive program, which is available for Mac, Win and Linux. Just uncheck the boxes to install the toolbar and change your homepage etc. :-P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkRats Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 If you have the RTM executables, can you zip them up and post them somewhere? I wouldn't mind playing around with them. Might be able to get them to work.Can you include the the help files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bizzybody Posted March 16, 2013 Author Share Posted March 16, 2013 Sent you a PM with a link. Don't know where the help files are for the games, they're not in the folders with the games' other files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkRats Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 Thanks. I got them.The help files are not essential.I think they are in a c:/windows folder with other help files (if my memory is correct). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikep56 Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 Hi bizzybody,I have XP Pro SP3 with an AMD X64 and 4 Gig RAM. I followed the link to ehow by submix8c and can run those games with no problems.Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
submix8c Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 (sigh....)HERE is the point -1 - They are Beta (i.e. not RTM) 2 - They are (most of them) Patched3 - They require a special Emulator DLL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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