OpenNI old version 1.x on Windows 8

PrimeSense released ther OpenNI 2.0 version without too much concern about their previous versions.

I am trying to figure out what they did with their older versions and how you can install the old version on Windows 8..

Here are the sources to the old OpenNI version
https://github.com/OpenNI

Here is the driver by avin:
https://github.com/avin2/SensorKinect 
some more driver versions:
https://github.com/avin2/SensorKinect/downloads

In this may 2012 forum post, avin adds this note: This version must be used with OpenNI 1.5.4.0! It will not work or compile with previous versions so please be sure to install it.
I'm also going to add support for Kinect4Windows as soon as I get my
hands on one (which will finally happen next week).

Finally I found this download that contains:

  openni-win64-1.5.4.0-dev
  nite-win64-1.5.2.21-dev
  sensor-win64-5.1.2.1-redist
  SensorKinect092-Bin-Win64-v5.1.2.1

maybe this works