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Mediafour Releases MacDrive 7 Compatible with Windows Vista x64

lWith Mac OS X 10.5, Mac owners can now enjoy Windows Vista x64 on their computers. The one major downside to using bootcamp, is that your Mac OS X partition is inaccessible while booted into Windows. Mediafour's MacDrive product changes all of that...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2008 11:15 PM by Ryan Hoffman

Filed under: x64 Compatibility, Vista x64

The Sexiest x64 Driver Database ;)

You may have noticed that just like another site, Extended64.com has an x64 Driver Database. For the first time, members can upload drivers to the Extended64 database. Just browse to the category of your driver, and click on the Upload button! Let's keep...

Published Sun, Jan 01 2006 1:35 PM by Ryan Hoffman

Filed under: x64 Compatibility

Windows x64 Hauppauge WinTV PVR Drivers Expected Soon!

Last week, I visited the Hauppague booth at the 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. I was browing their products, when a Hauppauge engineer approached me and started conversation. Of course, I quickly jumped into the x64 driver...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2006 3:40 PM by Ryan Hoffman

Filed under: x64 Compatibility

FAT Binaries: The solution to transitional problems?

I've known for quite a while that Mac OS X supported FAT Binaries - mostly because Mac OS X is based on NeXT 's OS (and not FreeBSD!) which was built to support FAT Binaries as well. Little did we all know that they would actually take advantage of the...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2005 11:49 PM by Ryan Hoffman

Filed under: x64 Compatibility, x64 Applications, x64 Development

AOL Does Not Work on x64

America Online does not work on Windows x64 ( not AIM, which works fine). This is because AOL uses a special "AOL Dialer" to connect to their servers - and this requires a hardware driver (it's virtual hardware). This is not a problem for me, but it's...

Published Mon, May 05 2005 7:19 AM by Ryan Hoffman

Filed under: x64 Compatibility

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and Games

A great tip was posted by Tripp Park on his MSDN Blog : If your game seems to be running "too fast" on Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, try modifiying your boot.ini to add the "/USEPMTIMER" switch. It can be done with this command: bootcfg /copy ...

Published Sat, May 05 2005 10:44 PM by Ryan Hoffman

Filed under: x64 Compatibility, x64 Applications

Windows x64 IIS 6 running 32-bit App Pools

Internet Information Services in Windows x64 is 64-bit. This means, if you want to run 32-bit ISAPI DLLs with IIS6 on Windows x64, you'll need to apply a small tweak. Open up a Command Prompt window, and type this command to enable 32-bit Application...

Published Tue, May 05 2005 7:24 AM by Ryan Hoffman

Filed under: x64 Compatibility

AMD Processors, Intel Processors, x64, AMD64..

I've seen a few people get confused about having an "AMD64" machine. Basically, the "x64" architecture is rightfully called "AMD64" under the hood in Windows (AMD did invent it). So, if you have an Intel or AMD processor which runs under Windows x64,...

Published Tue, May 05 2005 7:18 AM by Ryan Hoffman

Filed under: x64 Compatibility

DRM Music works in x64

Rafael just blogged about MSN Music , and because people don't often read a whole blog entries, I was just asked if DRM music worked in Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. The answer: YES Here is a screenshot of WMP10 playing a DRM file, and a screenshot...

Published Fri, May 05 2005 7:40 PM by Ryan Hoffman

Filed under: x64 Compatibility

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Mediafour Releases MacDrive 7 Compatible with Windows Vista x64

The Sexiest x64 Driver Database ;)

Windows x64 Hauppauge WinTV PVR Drivers Expected Soon!

FAT Binaries: The solution to transitional problems?

AOL Does Not Work on x64

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and Games

Windows x64 IIS 6 running 32-bit App Pools

AMD Processors, Intel Processors, x64, AMD64..

DRM Music works in x64