Past AM editions

[Roger]

Which version of AM was the 1999 year version? Was that 8 or 9? I remember 9 as being the buggy version, and the 1999 year version is the most recent one I have that still supported Win 95/98 and NT. I've been planning on experimenting with an older version of AM in a vm on Linux and Android and I thought those versions might be lightweight enough to manage it, but still have a more modern feature set (in terms of having unibody models, hooks, 5 point patches, etc).

[Fuchur]

Hi Roger,

 

A:M 2000 was v8. Like that 1999 should be v7, if I am not wrong... (I am with A:M since v8, thats why I know that).

That is a very interesting approach you are taking there... Android might be a problem, since most Android-devices are using ARMs instead of x86-CPUs, but maybe it is something possible with Windows 10 for ARM. (Microsoft announced that recently)

 

See you

*Fuchur*

[Roger]

Well, in theory, it should be possible to emulate an x86 system on another platform, so I was thinking of emulating a 500mhz pentium and attendant hardware on an android tablet, just to see if I can. If that does not work, then I'd like to try running an older version of AM on a lower-end modern Windows tablet (say some sort of Intel Atom based device).

[robcat2075]

I recommend not going back further than v10.5 just because that's when our current interface finally settled into place. Versions before that can look very confusing today.

[Roger]

What year was version 10.5? Would it run under 95/98/NT? The oldest version of AM I have that is still marked as running on those is AM 99.

I have the CD with Dennis the Wolf on it, that is the year 2000 CD which I thought was v12? I'm pretty sure that one had some major updates in terms of functionality.

 

The reason I'm looking for something that will run under Win 9X/NT 4.0 (or worst case, Win 2k) is I need something that is fairly low resource, for purposes of my experiment.

[robcat2075]

My v10.5 shows a creation date of 3/2/2004

 

I think the Orangutan was the mascot

 

Yes it would run on 95/98/NT

 

 

But if you have something earlier and want to try experimenting, I suppose there's no harm, especially if you are just modeling with it and saving MDLs for use elsewhere.

[detbear]

It was V.7 in 1999-2000. That's when I started with A:M. Denis the Dog by Anzovin was on the physical disc that shipped. I'm looking at my disc and

it confirms 2000.

I think I was on windows 95 or 98 with it when I started.

[Roger]

Well I just checked and I was quite surprised to find out that the Dennis CD is Win 9X/NT/Win 2k kernel. What version was the switchover to XP?

[robcat2075]

Well I just checked and I was quite surprised to find out that the Dennis CD is Win 9X/NT/Win 2k kernel. What version was the switchover to XP?

I dimly recall that my Win2K machine stopped running the alphas I was getting from Steffan at either v16 or 17.

 

He went to a new compiler and Win 2K was not supported so i needed to build a new machine at that point. By that time everyone was on Win 7.

[Roger]

 

Well I just checked and I was quite surprised to find out that the Dennis CD is Win 9X/NT/Win 2k kernel. What version was the switchover to XP?

I dimly recall that my Win2K machine stopped running the alphas I was getting from Steffan at either v16 or 17.

 

He went to a new compiler and Win 2K was not supported so i needed to build a new machine at that point. By that time everyone was on Win 7.

 

 

Really? Win 9X/NT/2k support continued through v16? That's a pretty long run.

[robcat2075]

At least thru v15. I think v16 was the break because that was when the 64-bit versions started also.