Win 7 games

Is there a way to get the Win 7 games to a win 8.1 machine.
I suppose MS is trying to get buyers/subscribers to the on-line
versions which in my case will not happen.

On 10-Aug-2015 14:31, Pfsszxt wrote:
Is there a way to get the Win 7 games to a win 8.1 machine.
I suppose MS is trying to get buyers/subscribers to the on-line
versions which in my case will not happen.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/nevmqzb

http://www.solsuite.com/freeware.htm

Scroll down for the free version.

Kenny

"Pfsszxt" wrote in message ...

Is there a way to get the Win 7 games to a win 8.1 machine.
I suppose MS is trying to get buyers/subscribers to the on-line
versions which in my case will not happen.

On 11/08/2015 07:16:07, Kenny wrote:
http://www.solsuite.com/freeware.htm

Scroll down for the free version.

Kenny

"Pfsszxt" wrote in message ...

Is there a way to get the Win 7 games to a win 8.1 machine.
I suppose MS is trying to get buyers/subscribers to the on-line
versions which in my case will not happen.

Another nice free one here http://pysolfc.sourceforge.net/
Works ok on win 7 and 8.1

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mick

On 2015-08-10 14:31, Pfsszxt wrote:

Is there a way to get the Win 7 games to a win 8.1 machine.
I suppose MS is trying to get buyers/subscribers to the on-line
versions which in my case will not happen.

Ah! This was interesting; when you do "properties" on the shortcuts to
games in Win7 it obfuscates the target. Anyway, they were easy to find,
on my Win7-64 they are in:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games

Just copy them over; I dont see why they wouldn't work in Win8...

Best Regards,

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B00ze wrote on 8/11/2015 8:23 PM:
On 2015-08-10 14:31, Pfsszxt wrote:

Is there a way to get the Win 7 games to a win 8.1 machine.
I suppose MS is trying to get buyers/subscribers to the on-line
versions which in my case will not happen.

Ah! This was interesting; when you do "properties" on the shortcuts to games in Win7 it obfuscates the target. Anyway,
they were easy to find, on my Win7-64 they are in:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games

Just copy them over; I dont see why they wouldn't work in Win8...

Best Regards,

They don't, or that was the issue years ago when win8 came out. There was a patcher that made them work on win8 but
that patcher is long gone if not impossible to find. Some people got it, I did but got rid of it. I just have the
modified games on a usb now and won't lose them otherwise I'm sol. Wish I had kept the patcher. I think it got hit
by an AV program somewhere.

On 2015-08-12 08:16, Big Al wrote:

B00ze wrote on 8/11/2015 8:23 PM:
On 2015-08-10 14:31, Pfsszxt wrote:

Is there a way to get the Win 7 games to a win 8.1 machine.
I suppose MS is trying to get buyers/subscribers to the on-line
versions which in my case will not happen.

Ah! This was interesting; when you do "properties" on the shortcuts to
games in Win7 it obfuscates the target. Anyway,
they were easy to find, on my Win7-64 they are in:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games

Just copy them over; I dont see why they wouldn't work in Win8...

Best Regards,

They don't, or that was the issue years ago when win8 came out. There
was a patcher that made them work on win8 but that patcher is long gone
if not impossible to find. Some people got it, I did but got rid of
it. I just have the modified games on a usb now and won't lose them
otherwise I'm sol. Wish I had kept the patcher. I think it got hit
by an AV program somewhere.

Thanks for the info.

Found the patcher:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg8k6Xcp9Pg
But my Firefox refuses to download it (on Mediafire) says it may contain crap...

There's a full install file which does download, if you can trust it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_DIZpGjhvE

Regards,

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On 13/08/15 00:53, B00ze wrote:

They don't, or that was the issue years ago when win8 came out. There
was a patcher that made them work on win8 but that patcher is long gone
if not impossible to find. Some people got it, I did but got rid of
it. I just have the modified games on a usb now and won't lose them
otherwise I'm sol. Wish I had kept the patcher. I think it got hit
by an AV program somewhere.

Thanks for the info.

Found the patcher:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg8k6Xcp9Pg
But my Firefox refuses to download it (on Mediafire) says it may contain crap...

FF is doing this with many things. I get it when trying to download
IrfanView. It's a new feature which you can turn off or ignore. You can
always download and run a malware scanner on the downloaded file if you
are concerned.

--

Jeff

Jeff Layman wrote:
On 13/08/15 00:53, B00ze wrote:

They don't, or that was the issue years ago when win8 came out. There
was a patcher that made them work on win8 but that patcher is long gone
if not impossible to find. Some people got it, I did but got rid of
it. I just have the modified games on a usb now and won't lose them
otherwise I'm sol. Wish I had kept the patcher. I think it got hit
by an AV program somewhere.

Thanks for the info.

Found the patcher:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg8k6Xcp9Pg
But my Firefox refuses to download it (on Mediafire) says it may
contain crap...

FF is doing this with many things. I get it when trying to download
IrfanView. It's a new feature which you can turn off or ignore. You can
always download and run a malware scanner on the downloaded file if you
are concerned.


This is likely more of this "reputation based malware analysis".
If a download isn't "popular", it must be bad. Some AVs
use this approach too, stopping you if you're downloading
something that no one else has downloaded. Instead of the
AV doing signature analysis or relying on heurisitics
(behaviors when run) to detect malware. It's a pretty
lazy method. And small software developers hate this...

Paul

On 13/08/15 14:00, Paul wrote:
Jeff Layman wrote:
On 13/08/15 00:53, B00ze wrote:

They don't, or that was the issue years ago when win8 came out. There
was a patcher that made them work on win8 but that patcher is long gone
if not impossible to find. Some people got it, I did but got rid of
it. I just have the modified games on a usb now and won't lose them
otherwise I'm sol. Wish I had kept the patcher. I think it got hit
by an AV program somewhere.

Thanks for the info.

Found the patcher:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg8k6Xcp9Pg
But my Firefox refuses to download it (on Mediafire) says it may
contain crap...

FF is doing this with many things. I get it when trying to download
IrfanView. It's a new feature which you can turn off or ignore. You can
always download and run a malware scanner on the downloaded file if you
are concerned.


This is likely more of this "reputation based malware analysis".
If a download isn't "popular", it must be bad. Some AVs
use this approach too, stopping you if you're downloading
something that no one else has downloaded. Instead of the
AV doing signature analysis or relying on heurisitics
(behaviors when run) to detect malware. It's a pretty
lazy method. And small software developers hate this...

Paul

Well, if it it based on popularity, it isn't working. I would hardly
call IrfanView not popular. According to the Home page, there have been
over 1 million downloads every month since 2003. Of course, if it's
based on Google data, we all know how that can be manipulated...

--

Jeff

Jeff Layman wrote:
On 13/08/15 14:00, Paul wrote:
Jeff Layman wrote:
On 13/08/15 00:53, B00ze wrote:

They don't, or that was the issue years ago when win8 came out. There
was a patcher that made them work on win8 but that patcher is long
gone
if not impossible to find. Some people got it, I did but got rid of
it. I just have the modified games on a usb now and won't lose them
otherwise I'm sol. Wish I had kept the patcher. I think it got hit
by an AV program somewhere.

Thanks for the info.

Found the patcher:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg8k6Xcp9Pg
But my Firefox refuses to download it (on Mediafire) says it may
contain crap...

FF is doing this with many things. I get it when trying to download
IrfanView. It's a new feature which you can turn off or ignore. You can
always download and run a malware scanner on the downloaded file if you
are concerned.


This is likely more of this "reputation based malware analysis".
If a download isn't "popular", it must be bad. Some AVs
use this approach too, stopping you if you're downloading
something that no one else has downloaded. Instead of the
AV doing signature analysis or relying on heurisitics
(behaviors when run) to detect malware. It's a pretty
lazy method. And small software developers hate this...

Paul

Well, if it it based on popularity, it isn't working. I would hardly
call IrfanView not popular. According to the Home page, there have been
over 1 million downloads every month since 2003. Of course, if it's
based on Google data, we all know how that can be manipulated...


This says Firefox calls your AV to scan a download.

"Disable virus scanning in Firefox preferences"

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...ox-preferences

Paul

On 14/08/15 12:04, Paul wrote:
Jeff Layman wrote:
Well, if it it based on popularity, it isn't working. I would hardly
call IrfanView not popular. According to the Home page, there have been
over 1 million downloads every month since 2003. Of course, if it's
based on Google data, we all know how that can be manipulated...


This says Firefox calls your AV to scan a download.

"Disable virus scanning in Firefox preferences"

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...ox-preferences

Paul

I'm running FF under Linux. No AV involved. This is /probably/ the reason:
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/20...on-in-firefox/

It all stems from Google’s Safe Browsing service.

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Jeff

Jeff Layman wrote:
On 14/08/15 12:04, Paul wrote:
Jeff Layman wrote:
Well, if it it based on popularity, it isn't working. I would hardly
call IrfanView not popular. According to the Home page, there have been
over 1 million downloads every month since 2003. Of course, if it's
based on Google data, we all know how that can be manipulated...


This says Firefox calls your AV to scan a download.

"Disable virus scanning in Firefox preferences"

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...ox-preferences


Paul

I'm running FF under Linux. No AV involved. This is /probably/ the reason:
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/20...on-in-firefox/


It all stems from Google’s Safe Browsing service.


Which in turn, is tied into Google's acquisition of
virustotal.com about a year or two ago. They offer
"search by hash value" on that site.

Paul