DiskSpan GUI

[Cesar82]

Originally Posted by kj911

Thanks! All compressors fully working from Windows XP?

This ARC splitting/spanning functions can't it somehow be integrated with TinyCompressor? (I've used the installer generator in MiniCompressor so far, for one or two projects and I use tuned/modified XP-compatible cls/unpackers files to install very old games. I'm just too lazy to make the installers... More games are waiting in packaged form for to his fate.)

For Oodle2mtc, it is possible to make an XP-compatible unpacker. (Because of the theoretically very fast unpacking. Shelwien's oodle wrapper (2.7.3 and 2.9.5) is very fastly decompress, but it doesn't exist as a cls-filter.)

In the DiskSpan GUI, x86 compressors are very limited.
The xtool plugins themselves only exist in x64 versions.
The xtool methods (old or v2020) only have a few codecs that work on x86.

DiskSpan GUI (x86) is partially working on older x86 systems like Windos 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP (SP3).
The reason is that CmdOutEx.dll which is responsible for intercepting text from the console window and playing in Memo does not work on KERNEL of older systems, and Blackfire69 was unable to resolve this.
So I recommend testing using a "'/LIGHTMODE" parameter that will disable several features, such as intercepting console text for the memo.

I only tested on a virtual machine (I don't have access to an old system on a physical machine), so I don't know if my tests were worth anything.
I haven't tested on x86 versions of Windows 8.0, Windows 8.1, Windows 10.
On these systems it should work (I think).

I was waiting and testing to see if I could find an alternative solution for old systems, but as everyone was eager for the update, I decided to share it anyway.
But you can share your tests on old x86 (or x64) systems so that as far as possible, reported bugs or non-operations can be fixed.
It is worth remembering that you can add additional compressors to the DiskSpan GUI just by editing the DSG_Methods.ini file in the "...\Resources\Win##" folder.

Thank you for understanding!

EDIT:
Attached a file to test on old 32-bit systems such as Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7.
Run the "_CONSOLE.bat" file and try to compress it.