by W3bD£v1l » Jul 5, 2001 @ 11:09am
Currently I've got Win98 First Edition.<br>And I've spend 15 hours downloading Microsoft eMbedded Tools (a 215Mb download, fortunatly I have ISDN and a cheap offpeak rate (0p))<br><br>Then after a long albeit tedius unpacking process, I ran the Setup program. Only to find that I needed Windows 98 Second Edition or above.<br><br>Is this really nessasry? All Win98SE is Win98 with new device drivers, multimedia enhancements, and a few other things. Theres no real change to the source code or anything related to the critical running of the OS. Also, Win2KP setup requires a 200Mhz processor to ru the setyp program, Yet they managed to add a few lines to the Run command that enabled it to install on a P75Mhz. So surely you can do the same for eMbedded Visual Studio?<br><br>I suppose I was attracted to this software by the fact that it's free and I want to make my own software titles for the PocketPC rather than to buy them off faceless companies like (well lets just not say)<br><br>I'm thinking of buying WinME, as I can get it for around $60 with my student license. But would the setup program instigate itself on WinME, I mean is this one of the Microsoft marketing ideas that force you to buy a new version of your current OS just to run a single program?