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16-bit Win32 PE Shell?

Anyone know of a program that will wrap a Delphi 1 16-bit executable in a
Win32 PE shell?

I have an old 16-bit application and I want to copy protect it using
Titanium (from Bitarts, a really nice product, but only works on 32 bit
apps.). I wrote and protected a small 32 bit launcher program that runs the
16 bit program and that works fine, but I'd much rather have a single .Exe
file.

I'm not even sure it's possbile to do what I want. Anyone know?

--
Ron Davis

 

Re:16-bit Win32 PE Shell?


The right thing is to simply rewrite it as a 32-bit
application. (In version N of Windows people will
no longer be able to run 16-bit apps at all. And
even now a lot of people don't like to do so, for
good reasons.)

Dave

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On Wed, 03 Oct 2001 12:48:38 GMT, "Ron Davis" <c...@oaktree.net> wrote:

>Anyone know of a program that will wrap a Delphi 1 16-bit executable in a
>Win32 PE shell?

>I have an old 16-bit application and I want to copy protect it using
>Titanium (from Bitarts, a really nice product, but only works on 32 bit
>apps.). I wrote and protected a small 32 bit launcher program that runs the
>16 bit program and that works fine, but I'd much rather have a single .Exe
>file.

>I'm not even sure it's possbile to do what I want. Anyone know?

>--
>Ron Davis

Re:16-bit Win32 PE Shell?


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> The right thing is to simply rewrite it as a 32-bit

Yeah, I know.

I have a new 32-bit version (a whole new program actually). But, about 10%
of my customers still use Windows 3.1 on a dust-covered 486-SX in the
ba{*word*224}t of a department store. Another 50%+ still Windows 95/98. They don't
want to learn the new program so they continue to order the old one.

Not everyone lives on the bleeding edge. :)

I'm just trying to figure out how to stop paying $37 each for dongles for an
old, outdated program.

"David C. Ullrich" <ullr...@math.okstate.edu> wrote in message
news:3bbb2d3f.770956872@news...

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> The right thing is to simply rewrite it as a 32-bit
> application. (In version N of Windows people will
> no longer be able to run 16-bit apps at all. And
> even now a lot of people don't like to do so, for
> good reasons.)

> Dave

> On Wed, 03 Oct 2001 12:48:38 GMT, "Ron Davis" <c...@oaktree.net> wrote:

> >Anyone know of a program that will wrap a Delphi 1 16-bit executable in a
> >Win32 PE shell?

> >I have an old 16-bit application and I want to copy protect it using
> >Titanium (from Bitarts, a really nice product, but only works on 32 bit
> >apps.). I wrote and protected a small 32 bit launcher program that runs
the
> >16 bit program and that works fine, but I'd much rather have a single
.Exe
> >file.

> >I'm not even sure it's possbile to do what I want. Anyone know?

> >--
> >Ron Davis

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