User blog comment:Byte Me/Starting the Game in Freeplay/@comment-2095806-20200318113021/@comment-10507735-20200318133125

Which part exactly is at fault? The setup-setup or the launcher?


 * Both. Seems no-one thought to provide for continuity XP support.
 * I get that, on the basis that it's a legacy OS. But it would have been nice to have.
 * Getting it to work in XP is a black art of its own, so consequently, I prefer to let "sleeping Boar lie".

The launcher is completely OUT for me. XP doesn't recognize it as a valid application. So I don't use it other than during setup as a one-off "choose your variants" deely.

After that, I ain't messing with the game.
 * It functions as vanilla 1.4007.
 * It took a morning to set up.
 * I think it preferable to leave it that way.

Because this update doesn't utilize the first, and I can provide the files that you need to download with the lawnchair.

I haven't played it for a couple of months. Could just be me, but many people seem to have exogenous priorities just now... if you want to suffer that is