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Re:Windows 1.0 and the WinAPI, 40 Years Later by pathartl on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @06:35PM (#48563199)
We regularly play Dark Messiah at our LAN, and I got that working straight off the disc. The only issue I've had with Source is SDK 2007 mods, but only because it's _extremely_ hard coded to have the SDK in a specific location.

But yeah, games that do outright crash are pretty easily patchable and most likely already have been.

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Re:Windows 1.0 and the WinAPI, 40 Years Later by shakna on Friday June 19, 2026 @03:10AM (#48595702)
If its the disk version, you have the 32bit executable. That'll work just fine. It's when the executable is 64bit, but the rest of the engine isn't.
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