Breakage in 'priviledged instructions' handling.

Mike Hearn mike at theoretic.com
Sun Oct 12 09:41:43 CDT 2003


On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 09:17, Lionel Ulmer wrote:
> Well, now that you say it, when I tested the demo for Tomb Raider 3 on Win2K
> (to check some slight graphical corruptions), it crashed at start-up... So
> the game does not even check for Windows version before doing its hacks.
> 
> Let's hope we do not have many such broken apps out there...

We lost the ability to run some 9x only apps? Will we ever get back the
ability to emulate these instructions, I also have an app crashing
because of this (not tried emulating NT yet). I guess if this will
always be the case we should either emulate NT by default, or print some
slightly more helpful message than a debug printout.




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