[Coco] VCC freezing up under Ubuntu

[Bill Pierce]

Lothan,
C++ 6 is actually still supported by Microsoft. They dropped all support with the release of Vista or maybe a little before then picked it back up as they found that 60% of the major 3d gaming engines by $$$$$ companies were still using and developing with the old libraries and they were pissed about it. Also a ton of business software that's still being used on Windows Server 2003 also use the C++ runtime libraries. So they picked the support back up and updated some of the DLLs and other things and anything compiled with Visual Studio 6 with the newer libraries should run on all new Windows builds. How long this will last, I don't know.
I actually got an email about this from MSDN (microsoft developers network) about a year after Vista came out and downloaded the SDK for the new libraries as I use the complete Visual Studio Enterprise 6 package and it wouldn't run well under Vista. Now it does.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Lothan <lothan at newsguy.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Fri, Apr 19, 2013 6:22 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] VCC freezing up under Ubuntu


From: David Ladd

> Not sure what would cause VCC not to work under Wine in linux.  Though the
> one time I tried the full install of VCC 1.42 in Wine it didn't work 
> either
> for me.
>
> Not sure there is much we can do about it at this time.  As I am not sure
> what would prevent it from working under Wine.  At this time we are 
> limited
> to using M$VC++6 for building VCC.

If you're stuck using Visual C++ 6, I feel your pain. That puts you 
somewhere around 14 years behind the times and there have been so many 
breaking changes in the compiler and runtimes that I imagine you're exactly 
right in your earlier comment. . . easier to rewrite from scratch than to 
bring the code up to date.

Just know that we appreciate your efforts to add DriveWire support to VCC.


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