Vehicle Programs compatible with Win7?

[Woodman]

I just checked, GVB starts perfectly fine without any of the compatibility stuff in Win7 explicitly enabled, if anything is used, it is done automatically without requiring any user action.

[Ts_]

I don't know anything about the vehicles book, but what about the free GURPS Vehicle Designer, as discussed in this thread? It used to be shareware but is given away for free now. A suitable key to unlock the program can be found in that thread.

It should just work in Win7, because Win7 supposedly ships with the VB6 runtime DLL (according to the first Google hit).

Regards
Ts

[RyanW]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

Personally, I bought GVB, tried to use it once and went back to Excel.

That was pretty much my experience as well. By that point I had adopted far too many house rules to get the program to do what I wanted.

[Bruno]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

Ok, I'm looking at how to use a spreadsheet for Excel and playing with Open Office.
My, it's much easier than I had feared.
Now I feel silly for avoiding it for so long.

A lot of things seem very complicated from a distance, but turn out to be simpler when you get close up. The problem is that this is sort of intuitively inverse because vision works the opposite, so there's a natural assumption that if it looks this bad from all the way over here, it must be even worse when you get dug into it.

Don't feel bad about it, it's pretty normal.

I've got a story about my mother, the nerd (and married to an Engineer) who could write programs on the C-64... and her encounter with the horrifying complexity that was the Macintosh :D