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Re:Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of... by bobsmooth on Monday December 26, 2022 @02:15PM (#34140760)
I installed a webcam driver for Windows Vista on Windows 10 the other day. As you said, all I had to do was check a box in the compatibility options.
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Re:Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of... by LaLaLand122 on Monday December 26, 2022 @02:58PM (#34141183)
There was still a need for webcam drivers when Vista was released? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_video_device_class
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Re:Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of... by worewood on Monday December 26, 2022 @06:00PM (#34142888)
Probably an ancient cam that didn't follow the standards
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Re:Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of... by gandalfian on Monday December 26, 2022 @06:10PM (#34142964)
The one thing I couldn't make work right upgrading to windows 10 was the Microsoft webcam. You could almost force it but the quality became crummy. The one thing that broke in xp was my Microsoft joystick.
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Re:Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of... by ethbr0 on Monday December 26, 2022 @10:31PM (#34144723)
I think I remember reading some weirdness about legacy joysticks, because they didn't map cleanly to MS standard controller types or somesuch, so all had to have hacks in the drivers to be functional.

Which then expectedly exploded whenever MS shipped a new Windows version.

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Re:Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of... by bobsmooth on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @02:47AM (#34146292)
It was a crappy off-brand webcam that my father refuses to upgrade.
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