Question about ancient Quicktime

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-12-10 04:01pm

I've got a CD with a virtual tour here that asks for Quicktime 32bits 2.somethingorother from sometime before the Second Crusade. I found a copy of that version and it all works just fine and dandy on a virtual W95 PC, but any modern version of Quicktime fails to even start the tour's intro. Also, all the text and video on the CD is in some sort of arcane format so I can't even rip it out directly.

Is it safe to install a mid-nineties QT version alongside a modern one, or will they conflict? Or is there some other way of making this work with non-antediluvian software?

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2007-12-10 04:18pm

Go ahead and try it - worse comes to worse, you can reinstall the newest QuickTime on top of it.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-12-10 04:27pm

I already tried it on my XP partition (nothing on there but games, anyway) and apart from raping my file associations it worked. That said, I'm supposed to get this CD working for a good dozen people with different PC's, most of whom don't like installing anything that comes with warnings.

The executable on the CD is apparently by Macromedia, something called "sleleton projector". Google doesn't bring up anything except abandoned puzzle games...

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2007-12-11 01:43am

You should be able to open QuickTime files from the early 90's in the latest QuickTime. It's ridiculously backwards-compatible.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2007-12-11 01:53am

Durandal wrote:You should be able to open QuickTime files from the early 90's in the latest QuickTime. It's ridiculously backwards-compatible.

The Windows API might not be, especially as the older versions of QuickTime interoperated with MCI.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-12-11 04:06am

Yeah, I've had problems myself with older Windows Quicktime stuff (like that hilarious 'starship creator' thing).

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-12-11 04:15am

Durandal wrote:You should be able to open QuickTime files from the early 90's in the latest QuickTime. It's ridiculously backwards-compatible.

I think the problem is that the tour has to be started with an executable that either checks *specifically* for this version of Quicktime, or doesn't recognise the new version. I've gone through the data folders, there isn't a format there that I recognise.