[bizzybody]

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.

[submix8c]

Have you tried this? (Google really helps...)

<<--link removed by me-->>
<<--link removed by me-->>

edit - and FWIW, same Google

vista solitaire

yields "it sux / buggy'/etc.

Also, there is Solitaire and Spider Solitaire... I assume you mean the first one.
<<--link removed by me-->>

This post has been edited by submix8c: 17 March 2013 - 09:10 AM

[bizzybody]

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.

[submix8c]

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?

[bizzybody]

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?

[submix8c]

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.

This post has been edited by submix8c: 17 March 2013 - 09:10 AM

[DarkRats]

Here you go.

h**p://www.filedropper.com/games

Virus and Malware Free
Read 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).

This post has been edited by DarkRats: 15 March 2013 - 05:57 PM

[submix8c]

Same files as listed in the links given? Beta versions? Patched? NOT RTM?????

[DarkRats]

Sorry. Not RTM.
Has anyone ever seen the (RTM) games separate from Vista?

[bizzybody]

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

[DarkRats]

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?

[bizzybody]

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.

[DarkRats]

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).

[mikep56]

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

[submix8c]

(sigh....)

HERE is the point -
1 - They are Beta (i.e. not RTM)
2 - They are (most of them) Patched
3 - They require a special Emulator DLL

[bizzybody]

submix8c, on 16 March 2013 - 08:32 PM, said:

(sigh....)

HERE is the point -
1 - They are Beta (i.e. not RTM)
2 - They are (most of them) Patched
3 - They require a special Emulator DLL

You haven't read the ENTIRE thread, especially not what I wrote where I explained about me running the BETA versions on XP. I already know what you just pointlessly posted.

But you're just like so many people on web forums and usenet. Don't actually READ what the original poster wrote, then tell the OP to do *exactly what he or she has said they already did*. I read through entire threads to see what issue the OP has, to see if anyone has come up with things to try that I haven't tried for the specific problem, then IF I have something different to add or a solution I've tried that worked (and nobody else has posted about), I'll add my reply.

What I *don't do* is just read the subject line, skip to the end and make myself look like a dumbarse who doesn't even read the OP's whole first post.

DarkRats now has the RTM versions of the games (which you'd know if you had bothered to read the thread or even just the last two or three posts instead of skipping to the end to make a pointless post) and is going to see about patching them to work on XP.

[submix8c]

(sigh...) I don't believe YOU read the entire thread! YOU in your haste to ""attack" did NOT realize that I was responding to the POST IMMEDIATELY ABOVE MY PREVIOUS ONE. You know, the one made by - MIKEP56!!!!

YOU are the Original Poster - I was the FIRST to respond! I REALIZED you had "passed" the files to "DarkRats". What planet did you LAND here from???

I recommend this Topic be closed as it has links to links to WAREZ anyhow!!! That I GAVE!!! DUH!!! You guys are playing with FIRE publicly informing you're passing PROPRIETARY software!

(P.S. See the Gold Star under my name? How did that get there?)

If it IS closed, I will hope that my LINKS be removed! Maybe I'll do that now!.

[bizzybody]

submix8c, on 17 March 2013 - 09:09 AM, said:

(sigh...) I don't believe YOU read the entire thread! YOU in your haste to ""attack" did NOT realize that I was responding to the POST IMMEDIATELY ABOVE MY PREVIOUS ONE. You know, the one made by - MIKEP56!!!!

That's what the quote commands are for. Avoids confusion.

Quote

I recommend this Topic be closed as it has links to links to WAREZ anyhow!!! That I GAVE!!! DUH!!! You guys are playing with FIRE publicly informing you're passing PROPRIETARY software!

(P.S. See the Gold Star under my name? How did that get there?)

If it IS closed, I will hope that my LINKS be removed! Maybe I'll do that now!.

Wasn't any reason to post a link to the old beta versions when I said to start with I already had them.

[submix8c]

Did you see an intervening post? If a 3-way conversation is "physically" taking place, person#1 speaks, person#2 speaks, and person#3 speaks, then person#1 speaks, who do you think they're speaking too (unless you're high)?

Here ya go -

Quote

You haven't read the ENTIRE thread, especially not what I wrote where I explained about me running the BETA versions on XP. I already know what you just pointlessly posted.

(smartaxe...)

P.S. <--Gold Star over there. Along with "purple" words. Go ahead and try to change yours.

This post has been edited by submix8c: 19 March 2013 - 04:19 PM