I am genuinely curious: what reason would there be for keeping a copy of NWC 1.75 on your system, if you also have the current version?
No reason except the fear that when I uninstaill it I will end up uninstalling 2.8 beta 1 as well. That is scary because I still have my original NWC CD, but would have to use a plug-in CD drive to use it.
I have survived all the upgrades since NWC1.3, as I've progressed through Windows 3, 6 or 7, the horrendous Windows Millenium, Windows 10 which I liked, and now the nightmarish 11.
I know there existed software where you could convert a CD Rom into an ISO file which can be mounted in Windows as a virtual drive. It's a long time ago that I used it (for the Command & Conquer CD's), and I don't remember how I did it (maybe Nero burning rom or even the old windows media player), but you can surely find something in the cloud. Just make ISO-files from the NWC-cdrom and you are safe as long as you keep the iso-files. Maybe it is even sufficient to copy all files from the cd to a folder and safeguard that folder.
Last post by Flurmy -
I can understand David fears because the 2.8 installer requires a previous 2.75a (or, better, 275a.2) already installed. If David did all the updating steps for a long time there is the risk to have to redo all those steps... back to the need of the CD. Not sure at all, but quite afraid!
Last post by Lawrie Pardy -
Hi David, as long as you have the 2.8 beta installer you'll be fine. Uninstalling 1.75 should have no effect on 2.8 but if you keep the 2.8 installer safe, you can reinstall it if something does actually go wrong.
I am genuinely curious: what reason would there be for keeping a copy of NWC 1.75 on your system, if you also have the current version?
No reason except the fear that when I uninstaill it I will end up uninstalling 2.8 beta 1 as well. That is scary because I still have my original NWC CD, but would have to use a plug-in CD drive to use it.
I have survived all the upgrades since NWC1.3, as I've progressed through Windows 3, 6 or 7, the horrendous Windows Millenium, Windows 10 which I liked, and now the nightmarish 11.
I can believe that. But it doesn't answer the question of why you would want 1.75 installed on a Windows 10/11 system alongside 2.75. Maybe you have a Win3.11 VM because you are part of the retro software scene, and like to live the glorious days of 4MB of RAM and single-tasking?
Last post by Mike Shawaluk -
I am genuinely curious: what reason would there be for keeping a copy of NWC 1.75 on your system, if you also have the current version? I can understand that there are people who were perfectly happy with 1.75 and don't want "all that new stuff". Is there something that 1.75 does that the newer versions don't?
