Somewhat sad, but it's 13 years old. Windows 7 is better in every way then XP, except for playing older games.
[QUOTE=Starlight 456;44483315]Somewhat sad, but it's 13 years old. Windows 7 is better in every way then XP, except for playing older games.[/QUOTE]
I never understood that part. Like, how can my modern operating system not support my Windows 9x games thus making me use a virtual machine?
Because older games often made assumptions about the hardware and OS that simply aren't true any more, I remember when XP launched a bunch of games wouldn't run because XP was based on NT, and when the games were written NT didn't support DirectX. You've also got the issue that 9x had no security to speak of, so a lot of games from that era assume there's no security, which isn't true any more (Running as Administrator was the normal behaviour for XP, but that was changed with Vista, which made people upset, etc.)
Running them in a VM isolates them from the hardware and underlying software, you can tailor the image to exactly what the game wants (And even do stuff like have a separate image for each game so they can't conflict, etc.)
[QUOTE=FunnyStarRunner;44483589]I never understood that part. Like, how can my modern operating system not support my Windows 9x games thus making me use a virtual machine?[/QUOTE]
I never understood how so many people struggle with running older games
I've been able to find information on getting some of the most esoteric games to run - one example, one of my fav 9x games is Kilingon academy, a game that flat out said it was never designed to run on Windows 2000.
This is a game designed for one particular version of DirectX, an early version of bink video, has no security awareness, no multithreading processor awareness, etc - all the troubles of old, poorly written 9x games - and yet, with a combination of Windows' compatibility settings and [url=http://jiridvorak.webpark.cz/ka/]one enterprising programmer with a 6 byte fix[/url] the game will run perfectly on my modern system on my 64-bit OS without any emulation.
And this is something I come across again and again. There are only 2 categories I've ever struggled with in getting old games to run, the really early DOS-to-Win95 ported games, and 16-bit executable games (which MS flat out no longer support for any of their 64-bit OS releases) - but both of these types of games are ones that run nicely in a VM.
A little bit of research is usually all that's stopping anyone running an older game on a modern OS.
[QUOTE=FunnyStarRunner;44483589]I never understood that part. Like, how can my modern operating system not support my Windows 9x games thus making me use a virtual machine?[/QUOTE]
Some old Win95 games are 16 bit or run under DOS.
Im waiting for the next article: "Massive security flaw found in windows XP"
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