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Originally Posted by Photon
Imagine an exe compressor, or a disassembler, or heck, an IFF image loader, that doesn't require a certain OS version to do their job. That's the goal. Run an exe.
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I can imagine an exe compressor or a disassembler needing a custom loadseg (obviously) but not an image loader or other application. As for loading and running standard exes in a CLI environment, I can see no reason not to use the OS.
But I am against exe compressers anyway, since they sometimes cause problems and we have plenty of storage space today.
If there are executables out there that have problems loading under the normal OS code then we should look at fixing them, not develop a custom loader to accommodate their flaws.