Adobe Photo Deluxe Business Edition (copyright Hewlett Packard1999)

A friend and I were going through a box of old computer
things, when we saw an unopened shrink wrapped version
of Adobe Photo Deluxe Business Edition that came with
an HP Printer.

It has a serial number on the package, but we didn't
open the package or install.

Just curious: Is it something useful?

On 2014-03-14 04:28:47 +0000, Angelique Begnaud
said:

A friend and I were going through a box of old computer
things, when we saw an unopened shrink wrapped version
of Adobe Photo Deluxe Business Edition that came with
an HP Printer.

It has a serial number on the package, but we didn't
open the package or install.

Just curious: Is it something useful?

Not any more it isn't. Adobe Photo Deluxe was one of Adobe's earliest
and most primitive versions of their software. It only had some of the
most rudimentary tools and was usually bundled with some scanners and
printers in the mid-1990s through to about 2002.
It was the forerunner to Adobe Photoshop LE which developed into
Photoshop Elements.

It is not likely to run on any of the recent operating systems. I am
not sure if it is supported beyond Windows 2000 or Mac OS 7.

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Regards,

Savageduck

In article 201403132159265219-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom, savageduck1
@{REMOVESPAM}me.com says...

On 2014-03-14 04:28:47 +0000, Angelique Begnaud
said:

A friend and I were going through a box of old computer
things, when we saw an unopened shrink wrapped version
of Adobe Photo Deluxe Business Edition that came with
an HP Printer.

It has a serial number on the package, but we didn't
open the package or install.

Just curious: Is it something useful?

Not any more it isn't. Adobe Photo Deluxe was one of Adobe's earliest
and most primitive versions of their software. It only had some of the
most rudimentary tools and was usually bundled with some scanners and
printers in the mid-1990s through to about 2002.
It was the forerunner to Adobe Photoshop LE which developed into
Photoshop Elements.

It is not likely to run on any of the recent operating systems. I am
not sure if it is supported beyond Windows 2000 or Mac OS 7.

If is from the 1990s and for Windows it should run on any current
version.

On 2014-03-14 12:17:24 +0000, "J. Clarke" said:

In article 201403132159265219-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom, savageduck1
@{REMOVESPAM}me.com says...

On 2014-03-14 04:28:47 +0000, Angelique Begnaud
said:

A friend and I were going through a box of old computer
things, when we saw an unopened shrink wrapped version
of Adobe Photo Deluxe Business Edition that came with
an HP Printer.

It has a serial number on the package, but we didn't
open the package or install.

Just curious: Is it something useful?

Not any more it isn't. Adobe Photo Deluxe was one of Adobe's earliest
and most primitive versions of their software. It only had some of the
most rudimentary tools and was usually bundled with some scanners and
printers in the mid-1990s through to about 2002.
It was the forerunner to Adobe Photoshop LE which developed into
Photoshop Elements.

It is not likely to run on any of the recent operating systems. I am
not sure if it is supported beyond Windows 2000 or Mac OS 7.

If is from the 1990s and for Windows it should run on any current
version.

Yup! I noted that it was 90's vintage.
....but one wonders, why bother given the advances in even the most
rudimentary current editing software?
--
Regards,

Savageduck

On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 08:17:24 -0400, J. Clarke wrote:

If is from the 1990s and for Windows it should run on any current
version.

I would have thought so also.

Is it something that you'd find useful if all you used otherwise
was Irfanview, MS Paint, & Vicman photo editor?

On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 06:58:35 -0700, Savageduck wrote:

Yup! I noted that it was 90's vintage.
...but one wonders, why bother given the advances in even the most
rudimentary current editing software?

That's the entire question.

Is it something that you'd find useful if all you used otherwise
was Irfanview, MS Paint, & Vicman photo editor free wares?

On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 08:17:24 -0400, "J. Clarke"
wrote:

In article 201403132159265219-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom, savageduck1
says...

On 2014-03-14 04:28:47 +0000, Angelique Begnaud
said:

A friend and I were going through a box of old computer
things, when we saw an unopened shrink wrapped version
of Adobe Photo Deluxe Business Edition that came with
an HP Printer.

It has a serial number on the package, but we didn't
open the package or install.

Just curious: Is it something useful?

Not any more it isn't. Adobe Photo Deluxe was one of Adobe's earliest
and most primitive versions of their software. It only had some of the
most rudimentary tools and was usually bundled with some scanners and
printers in the mid-1990s through to about 2002.
It was the forerunner to Adobe Photoshop LE which developed into
Photoshop Elements.

It is not likely to run on any of the recent operating systems. I am
not sure if it is supported beyond Windows 2000 or Mac OS 7.

If is from the 1990s and for Windows it should run on any current
version.

It doesn't automatically follow. I have software (Photopaint) which
won't run in W7/64 and needs an XP32 emulator. Although I've forgotten
exactly what, I have had software which ran in W2000 but wouldn't run
in XP32.
--

Regards,

Eric Stevens

On 14/03/2014 21:15, Eric Stevens wrote:
[]
It doesn't automatically follow. I have software (Photopaint) which
won't run in W7/64 and needs an XP32 emulator. Although I've forgotten
exactly what, I have had software which ran in W2000 but wouldn't run
in XP32.

I take it you tried the compatibility settings for these programs?

Alternatively, you are likely to get these programs to work using
virtual machines and installing XP32 or Win-2000 inside the VM. Some
versions of Win-7/64 come with an XP emulator, as mine does, and it
works satisfactorily, including device drivers.

--
Cheers,
David
Web: http://www.satsignal.eu

In article , david-
lid says...

On 14/03/2014 21:15, Eric Stevens wrote:
[]
It doesn't automatically follow. I have software (Photopaint) which
won't run in W7/64 and needs an XP32 emulator. Although I've forgotten
exactly what, I have had software which ran in W2000 but wouldn't run
in XP32.

I take it you tried the compatibility settings for these programs?

Alternatively, you are likely to get these programs to work using
virtual machines and installing XP32 or Win-2000 inside the VM. Some
versions of Win-7/64 come with an XP emulator, as mine does, and it
works satisfactorily, including device drivers.

Generally speaking if it won't run on 64-bit windows it needs the 16-bit
subsystem which Microsoft decided not to include in the 64-bit versions.
Such software would be DOS-based or use the pre-Windows-95 APIs if it is
for Windows.

The other place where problems occasionally occur is with security--in
each new release of Windows Microsoft has tightened the default security
settings, so software that is quite capable of running on XP or Vista or
7 or 8 doesn't because the writers made assumptions about the security
settings that are no longer true or make their own settings that no
longer work. When you run into one of those, the fix is generally to
locate the folders it is using and first try setting the security to the
system defaults and if that doesn't work then give system,
administrator, and whoever needs to use it full access.

On 15/03/2014 16:46, J. Clarke wrote:
[]
Generally speaking if it won't run on 64-bit windows it needs the 16-bit
subsystem which Microsoft decided not to include in the 64-bit versions.
Such software would be DOS-based or use the pre-Windows-95 APIs if it is
for Windows.

The other place where problems occasionally occur is with security--in
each new release of Windows Microsoft has tightened the default security
settings, so software that is quite capable of running on XP or Vista or
7 or 8 doesn't because the writers made assumptions about the security
settings that are no longer true or make their own settings that no
longer work. When you run into one of those, the fix is generally to
locate the folders it is using and first try setting the security to the
system defaults and if that doesn't work then give system,
administrator, and whoever needs to use it full access.

I've checked, and 16-bit program will run on an instance of XP running
on a virtual machine under WIn-8.1 64-bit. There are examples of some
early 32-bit programs using a 16-bit installer, although I can now
remember which they were.

An easy solution to programs like that is to install to a new directory:

C:\Tools

rather than C:\Program Files\, although that means you won't then get
the extra security afforded by C:\Program Files\.

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Cheers,
David
Web: http://www.satsignal.eu