Re: [XBoard-devel] WinBoard installer

[h.g. muller]

At 08:51 6-6-2009 -0600, Eric Mullins wrote:
> The problem with the polyglot that doesn't require cygwin1.dll is it 
> doesn't work in windows 95 because of the new affinity option.  I tried to 
> assist that project briefly, including changes for win95 support, but they 
> disappeared in the very next version.  I have my own custom version of it 
> that does work in win95 though.  Still, I'm not sure I consider it tested 
> enough.  I never really understood the point of getting rid of the cygwin1 
> dependency anyway.  However, I do like the windows native version for one 
> reason: in windows 9x and NT4, it doesn't open an extra command window for 
> the forked polyglot process.

To return to thi issue: I did not succeed in testing the Polyglot from the 
Gold Pack with Win95. When I tried to write it on a floppy from my Win2K 
machine (where I brought it with a memory stick), the floppy invriable 
becomes unreadable both on my Win95 laptop and the Win2k machine, and is 
even unformattable on the Win2k machine after that. Wen I reboot the Win2k 
machine under Win98, the Polyglot seems to work, though. But that probably 
doen't prove anything, as I suppose the problem you mension is specific to 
Win95 only.

I would be very interested to have your patches to make Polyglot work under 
Win95. Although in case a choice has to be made, I would definitely prefer 
including a Polyglot that can run without cygwin1.dll over one that would 
work on Win95, it would be good to have both.

H.G.