In Forum: Customisation
By User: dewaterfall
Do you know Wine? There was kind of a movement in order to make older Windows version ran Windows programs which were only available for more recent editions. Wine is a layer used to run Windows games in Linux, from which ReactOS (which is a free Windows clone) has emerged.
KernelEX was an unoffical SP for Windows 98/Me that does a similar thing
I also plan on porting WMP10 and 11 to Windows 2000 once WMP8 is finished, I could upload a copy of the WMP8 Files to mediafire if interested to run WMP8 in Windows 2000 or NT4 (with IE4), I know there are some DLLs inside System32 that WMP installs (wmpcore.dll for example), Which also need to be added for manually installing
EDIT: I decided to reset this project by simply installing the newest RC build of WMP8, Replacing some components (Skins and such) with newer versions (From Windows XP RTM's Media Player), As well as editing the About dialog so it says "Windows Media Player" instead of "Windows Media Player for Windows XP", So this would make as an "RTM" of WMP8 for Windows NT4/98 and Newer
http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-02/1359880758.th.10715.pngIf it is possible to, I can help you to port WMP 12 from Windows 7 into Windows 2000! If it isn't possible to port WMP 12 into Windows 2000, what are the exact hurdles preventing it from being possible?
By User: dewaterfall
Do you know Wine? There was kind of a movement in order to make older Windows version ran Windows programs which were only available for more recent editions. Wine is a layer used to run Windows games in Linux, from which ReactOS (which is a free Windows clone) has emerged.
KernelEX was an unoffical SP for Windows 98/Me that does a similar thing
I also plan on porting WMP10 and 11 to Windows 2000 once WMP8 is finished, I could upload a copy of the WMP8 Files to mediafire if interested to run WMP8 in Windows 2000 or NT4 (with IE4), I know there are some DLLs inside System32 that WMP installs (wmpcore.dll for example), Which also need to be added for manually installing
EDIT: I decided to reset this project by simply installing the newest RC build of WMP8, Replacing some components (Skins and such) with newer versions (From Windows XP RTM's Media Player), As well as editing the About dialog so it says "Windows Media Player" instead of "Windows Media Player for Windows XP", So this would make as an "RTM" of WMP8 for Windows NT4/98 and Newer
http://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2013-02/1359880758.th.10715.pngIf it is possible to, I can help you to port WMP 12 from Windows 7 into Windows 2000! If it isn't possible to port WMP 12 into Windows 2000, what are the exact hurdles preventing it from being possible?