Last Real Player

[Guest Tony Yarwood]

Hi guys

 

Sorry to bother you all with this, but a does anybody happen to know

which was the last version of Real player to work on 98se?

 

Best regards

 

Tony

[Guest Bill in Co.]

Re: Last Real Player

 

I don't know, but then again, do you really need or want the last version?

I've been using Real Player version 8 upto now, so I know that one still

works (or worked) (although I haven't been using it much recently, truth be

told). Another idea for consideration is Real Alternative. Maybe their

website (or a google search) will tell you the version compatibilities.

 

Tony Yarwood wrote:

> Hi guys

>

> Sorry to bother you all with this, but a does anybody happen to know

> which was the last version of Real player to work on 98se?

>

> Best regards

>

> Tony

[Guest glee]

Re: Last Real Player

 

RealPlayer 10, perhaps?

 

Real Legacy Software Archive - Real.com

http://forms.real.com/real/player/blackjack.html?src=topnav,rpchoice,realcom_player_105,012904info_sysreqs_1_0_0_0_0_0

 

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"Tony Yarwood" <Tony.Yarwood@XXXfreeuk.com> wrote in message

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> Hi guys

>

> Sorry to bother you all with this, but a does anybody happen to know

> which was the last version of Real player to work on 98se?

>

> Best regards

>

> Tony

[Guest letterman@invalid.com]

Re: Last Real Player

 

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 01:57:07 +0100, Tony Yarwood

<Tony.Yarwood@XXXfreeuk.com> wrote:

>Hi guys

>

>Sorry to bother you all with this, but a does anybody happen to know

>which was the last version of Real player to work on 98se?

>

>Best regards

>

>Tony

 

I dont know, but I want to warn you, Real Player can really screw up

Win95 and 98 (maybe other versions as well). RP has always been known

to cause problems. A one time it had spyware in it too, but that was

during the Windows 3.x era. I believe they removed that. Just

thought I'd let you know. I wont install it. I see less and less RP

videos these days. Most are not Win Media Player, or Flash (SWF or

FLV). Both of those work much better.

[Guest Tony Yarwood]

Re: Last Real Player

 

Hi Guys

 

On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:52:40 -0400, "glee" <glee29@spamindspring.com>

wrote:

>RealPlayer 10, perhaps?

>

>Real Legacy Software Archive - Real.com

>http://forms.real.com/real/player/blackjack.html?src=topnav,rpchoice,realcom_player_105,012904info_sysreqs_1_0_0_0_0_0

 

Thanks for that, I tried 10.5 but no good.

 

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:21:43 -0500, letterman@invalid.com wrote:

>

>I dont know, but I want to warn you, Real Player can really screw up

>Win95 and 98 (maybe other versions as well). RP has always been known

>to cause problems. A one time it had spyware in it too, but that was

>during the Windows 3.x era. I believe they removed that. Just

>thought I'd let you know. I wont install it. I see less and less RP

>videos these days. Most are not Win Media Player, or Flash (SWF or

>FLV). Both of those work much better.

 

I am reluctant to install, I've been using Real Alternative for many

years, but for some obscure reason in won't install properly on this

m/c.

 

Best regards

 

Tony

[Guest Don Phillipson]

Re: Last Real Player

 

> <Tony.Yarwood@XXXfreeuk.com> wrote:

> >Sorry to bother you all with this, but a does anybody happen to know

> >which was the last version of Real player to work on 98se?

 

<letterman@invalid.com> wrote in message

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> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 01:57:07 +0100, Tony Yarwood

> I dont know, but I want to warn you, Real Player can really screw up

> Win95 and 98 (maybe other versions as well). RP has always been known

> to cause problems. A one time it had spyware in it too, but that was

> during the Windows 3.x era. I believe they removed that.

 

RealPlayer v.10.5 is dated 2004, is 32-bit, and works

flawlessly on Win98SE.

 

--

Don Phillipson

Carlsbad Springs

(Ottawa, Canada)

[Guest glee]

Re: Last Real Player

 

"Tony Yarwood" <Tony.Yarwood@XXXfreeuk.com> wrote in message

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> Hi Guys

>

> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:52:40 -0400, "glee" <glee29@spamindspring.com>

> wrote:

>

>>RealPlayer 10, perhaps?

>>

>>Real Legacy Software Archive - Real.com

>>http://forms.real.com/real/player/blackjack.html?src=topnav,rpchoice,realcom_player_105,012904info_sysreqs_1_0_0_0_0_0

>

> Thanks for that, I tried 10.5 but no good.

 

No good in what way? What happened when you installed it or tried to install it?

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[Guest Rick Chauvin]

Re: Last Real Player

 

 

"Don Phillipson" <e925@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> wrote in message

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> RealPlayer v.10.5 is dated 2004, is 32-bit, and works

> flawlessly on Win98SE.

 

That dig sig date is for v6.0.12.1056 - RealPlayer10-5GOLD_bb.exe fwiw, but

there is also v6.0.12.1483 - RealPlayer10-5GOLD_bb.exe with a dig sig of

2/17/2006, and then don't forget about the non-bb/exe version which the

latest is v6.0.12.1663 - RealPlayer10-5GOLD.exe dig sig of 10/23/2007

I think the difference between ...bb.exe/or not is a bundle with Rhapsody,

etc, in it.

 

Rick

 

>

> --

> Don Phillipson

> Carlsbad Springs

> (Ottawa, Canada)

>

>

[Guest letterman@invalid.com]

Re: Last Real Player

 

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:14:56 +0100, Tony Yarwood

<Tony.Yarwood@XXXfreeuk.com> wrote:

>Hi Guys

>

>On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:52:40 -0400, "glee" <glee29@spamindspring.com>

>wrote:

>

>>RealPlayer 10, perhaps?

>>

>>Real Legacy Software Archive - Real.com

>>http://forms.real.com/real/player/blackjack.html?src=topnav,rpchoice,realcom_player_105,012904info_sysreqs_1_0_0_0_0_0

>

>Thanks for that, I tried 10.5 but no good.

>

>On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:21:43 -0500, letterman@invalid.com wrote:

>>

>>I dont know, but I want to warn you, Real Player can really screw up

>>Win95 and 98 (maybe other versions as well). RP has always been known

>>to cause problems. A one time it had spyware in it too, but that was

>>during the Windows 3.x era. I believe they removed that. Just

>>thought I'd let you know. I wont install it. I see less and less RP

>>videos these days. Most are not Win Media Player, or Flash (SWF or

>>FLV). Both of those work much better.

>

>I am reluctant to install, I've been using Real Alternative for many

>years, but for some obscure reason in won't install properly on this

>m/c.

>

>Best regards

>

>Tony

 

I had the same problem with the alternative. I could not get it to

install properly ????

At one time I wanted it, but I see very little RP videos these days.

I much prefer the .FLV files. They work nicely, dont eat up a ton of

resources, and rarely skip on this slower PIII 1000mhz puter. That

seems to be the way video is heading and I have no complaints about it

at all. RP seems to be a dying format, with WMP being the second most

used, and I cant say too much bad about WMP either, except I will get

some skkpping if I have much else running at the same time.

[Guest Roger Fink]

Re: Last Real Player

 

http://forms.real.com/rnforms/products/tools/red/index.html

This is a non-intrusive stripped down version of realplayer that I used for

years on '98SE with absolutely no problems (you can ignore what OS's they

say it will work with, trust me). It never failed to play any realplayer

file I wanted to play and contains the innards to enable you to play the

latest version of embedded realplayer videos, at least it did the last time

I tried that. It is no frills to the extreme, so if you're into Rhapsody or

sophisticated music libraries and such, then you want something else. You

can list any email address - they don't send you a confirming email as a

precondition to get it working.

 

Tony Yarwood wrote:

> Hi Guys

>

> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:52:40 -0400, "glee" <glee29@spamindspring.com>

> wrote:

>

>> RealPlayer 10, perhaps?

>>

>> Real Legacy Software Archive - Real.com

>>

http://forms.real.com/real/player/blackjack.html?src=topnav,rpchoice,realcom_player_105,012904info_sysreqs_1_0_0_0_0_0

>

> Thanks for that, I tried 10.5 but no good.

>

> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:21:43 -0500, letterman@invalid.com wrote:

>>

>> I dont know, but I want to warn you, Real Player can really screw up

>> Win95 and 98 (maybe other versions as well). RP has always been

>> known

>> to cause problems. A one time it had spyware in it too, but that was

>> during the Windows 3.x era. I believe they removed that. Just

>> thought I'd let you know. I wont install it. I see less and less RP

>> videos these days. Most are not Win Media Player, or Flash (SWF or

>> FLV). Both of those work much better.

>

> I am reluctant to install, I've been using Real Alternative for many

> years, but for some obscure reason in won't install properly on this

> m/c.

>

> Best regards

>

> Tony

[Guest Roger Fink]

Re: Last Real Player

 

I should have added that, like the other versions of Realplayer I'm aware

of, this one inserts itself into you your active start-up apps and "phones

home" (I think it's called Tkbell and I also noticed another one,

"realsched"), and MS-config cannot get rid of it. However, it is relatively

easy to beat it by using the firewall to deny it the right to call out or

call in (at least you can do this with Kerio).

 

Roger Fink wrote:

> http://forms.real.com/rnforms/products/tools/red/index.html

> This is a non-intrusive stripped down version of realplayer that I

> used for

> years on '98SE with absolutely no problems (you can ignore what OS's

> they

> say it will work with, trust me). It never failed to play any

> realplayer

> file I wanted to play and contains the innards to enable you to play

> the

> latest version of embedded realplayer videos, at least it did the

> last time

> I tried that. It is no frills to the extreme, so if you're into

> Rhapsody or

> sophisticated music libraries and such, then you want something else.

> You

> can list any email address - they don't send you a confirming email

> as a

> precondition to get it working.

>

> Tony Yarwood wrote:

>> Hi Guys

>>

>> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:52:40 -0400, "glee" <glee29@spamindspring.com>

>> wrote:

>>

>>> RealPlayer 10, perhaps?

>>>

>>> Real Legacy Software Archive - Real.com

>>>

>

http://forms.real.com/real/player/blackjack.html?src=topnav,rpchoice,realcom_player_105,012904info_sysreqs_1_0_0_0_0_0

>>

>> Thanks for that, I tried 10.5 but no good.

>>

>> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:21:43 -0500, letterman@invalid.com wrote:

>>>

>>> I dont know, but I want to warn you, Real Player can really screw up

>>> Win95 and 98 (maybe other versions as well). RP has always been

>>> known

>>> to cause problems. A one time it had spyware in it too, but that

>>> was

>>> during the Windows 3.x era. I believe they removed that. Just

>>> thought I'd let you know. I wont install it. I see less and less

>>> RP

>>> videos these days. Most are not Win Media Player, or Flash (SWF or

>>> FLV). Both of those work much better.

>>

>> I am reluctant to install, I've been using Real Alternative for many

>> years, but for some obscure reason in won't install properly on this

>> m/c.

>>

>> Best regards

>>

>> Tony

[Guest Franc Zabkar]

Re: Last Real Player

 

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:27:31 -0400, "Roger Fink" <fink@manana.org> put

finger to keyboard and composed:

>I should have added that, like the other versions of Realplayer I'm aware

>of, this one inserts itself into you your active start-up apps and "phones

>home" (I think it's called Tkbell and I also noticed another one,

>"realsched"), and MS-config cannot get rid of it. However, it is relatively

>easy to beat it by using the firewall to deny it the right to call out or

>call in (at least you can do this with Kerio).

 

What I do is to replace this file ...

 

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB\realsched.exe

 

.... with a 2-byte do-nothing file.

 

You can create such a file using Debug as follows. Lines not beginning

with a space have wrapped.

 

C:\WINDOWS>cd "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB"

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB>debug

 

-a 100

12EB:0100 int 20

12EB:0102

-d 100 101

12EB:0100 CD 20

-rcx

CX 0000

:2

-n dummy.com

-w

Writing 00002 bytes

-q

 

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB>ren realsched.exe

realsched.bak

 

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB>ren dummy.com

realsched.exe

 

- Franc Zabkar

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[Guest glee]

Re: Last Real Player

 

"Franc Zabkar" <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> wrote in message

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>

> What I do is to replace this file ...

>

> C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB\realsched.exe

>

> ... with a 2-byte do-nothing file.

>

> You can create such a file using Debug as follows. Lines not beginning

> with a space have wrapped.

>

> C:\WINDOWS>cd "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB"

> C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB>debug

>

> -a 100

> 12EB:0100 int 20

> 12EB:0102

> -d 100 101

> 12EB:0100 CD 20

> -rcx

> CX 0000

> :2

> -n dummy.com

> -w

> Writing 00002 bytes

> -q

>

> C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB>ren realsched.exe

> realsched.bak

>

> C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB>ren dummy.com

> realsched.exe

>

> - Franc Zabkar

 

Nice!

--

Glen Ventura, MS MVP Windows, A+

http://dts-l.net/

[Guest Tony Yarwood]

Re: Last Real Player

 

Thanks all for your as usual very informative replies :)

 

In the end I decided not to install RP, bloatware methinks! I'm just

gonna stick .rm files on my m/c that has got Real Alternative on it.

 

Thanks everybody.

 

Best regards

 

Tony