Okay, guess it was a good thing that I decided not to post this in the CIPWTTKT thread 15 minutes ago.
The what now?
name: twatface
[editline]3rd March 2011[/editline]
Very interesting. Not sure what I was to learn from this, except that Windows has great backwards compatibility!
Damn, he's lucky. The only Windows upgrade I did failed completely.
It would probably failed if he didn't forget Windows ME.
[QUOTE=bassie12;28403845]It would probably failed if he didn't forget Windows ME.[/QUOTE]
He didn't forget.
I love how that pink background made it to Windows 2000.
[editline]3rd March 2011[/editline]
And those old legacy Windows apps working in Windows 7.
Yeah, the backwards compability is awesome, but why is there no 16-bit compability in 64-bit?
Wow, awesome.
Cool experiment.
[QUOTE=AntonFTW;28419336]Yeah, the backwards compability is awesome, but why is there no 16-bit compability in 64-bit?[/QUOTE]
Because they kept getting data corruption when trying to get it to work.
Or so I read.
[QUOTE=Panda X;28419811]Because they kept getting data corruption when trying to get it to work.
Or so I read.[/QUOTE]
Also I don't really want them to keep compatibility for hundreds of layers of cruft as we go on. VMs will handle this need just fine as we get more powerful machines.
That is one way to keep DOS Support without using DOS Box in the later versions. according to a youtube comment Doom 2 still worked in Vista/Win 7
[QUOTE=Tuskin;28431262]That is one way to keep DOS Support without using DOS Box in the later versions. according to a youtube comment Doom 2 still worked in Vista/Win 7[/QUOTE]
No it doesn't, you need a source port.
Yeah, someone asks him why.
His answer would be "I wanted DOOM II to work on my windows 7 machine."
not to bring fanboy logic into this, but this is pretty incredible, considering you cant do this with a mac thanks to its locked hardware requirements (from PPC to Intel processors)
That was a useful video. And I also learned something from this.
Interesting video. But the way he pronounces "vista" irritates me slightly.
[QUOTE=Kenneth;29629007]Interesting video. But the way he pronounces "vista" irritates me slightly.[/QUOTE]
Oh god WHO cares
That was pretty cool to watch. I figured somewhere along the line they would've thrown everything out, but I guess not.
Nice video, pretty interesting to watch.
Shows what kind of effort going into keeping Windows backwards compatible. Reversi is just plain ridiculous, though.
lol i always wonder what would happen if someone did this. Now i know! that is pretty amazing
now do this with apple's OS
He should try straight from Windows 1 to Windows 7.
I found this entertaining as fuck to watch.
[QUOTE=meppers;29635246]now do this with apple's OS[/QUOTE]
Can't be done because of the architecture switch, but it would definitely work from the first Intel version of the OS up to Snow Leopard.
Feels amazing to have seen so many advances in the field in my lifetime thus far. Can't wait until he makes another video 20 years from now and continues it on. Assuming we don't change architecture, which we will.
[QUOTE=Tuskin;28431262]That is one way to keep DOS Support without using DOS Box in the later versions. according to a youtube comment Doom 2 still worked in Vista/Win 7[/QUOTE]
How?
Windows 7 AFAIK doesn't have any kind of MSDOS support at all. I'm not sure how simply having the program being present in the orignal install folder will magically make MSDOS work in Win7
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