This is super cool! I admire those who make the effort to keep their software running on old unsupported OSs. There's a thriving community of new and existing XP users and I don't see it going away despite it being out of support for over a decade. It's one of the last great Windows versions and its long life ensured a huge software catalog is available for exploring, now including Principia.
by haunter
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Legacy Update basically solves every post install update/driver issues
FYI if you have the MSVC redistributable 14.27.29114 you can use UCRT executables built with modern Mingw-W64 on Windows XP, and curl 8.18.0 will work too (microsoft removed the link but I found it on the PC gaming wiki). I never had to deal with GetDynamicTimeZoneInformation() for my stuff, but maybe it only is a problem if you use the related code and don't static link libstdc++?
by throwaway2046
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Excellent write-up. Does anyone have the source of the background image shown in the last screenshot?
by zamadatix
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How on earth have I missed the existence of this physics game for the last 12 years!? It even has the option to play levels directly in the browser!
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