Ok, ok, you persuaded me to be more open in this regard :) Though, still,
I would have preferred the source..
Vladimir Dergachev
On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Nathan Hand wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 05:39:25PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > With linux, it will say something along the lines of "works with Redhat
> > 6.2". (take a look at many CAD packages, for example - they are _not_ very
> > graphics intensive). Games are even trickier. I have not bought a single
> > Loki game for this reason: once I upgrade to new libraries or X it will be
> > dead weight. And if it crashes because of incompatibility there is little
> > I can do to fix it. (And no, I am not going to waddle thru machine code to
> > fix something I paid money for).
>
> Now this is interesting. I've bought all the Loki games. And I do mean
> ALL the Loki games. I've also got many Windows/DOS games. This is just
> my nature.
>
> I reckon 50% of the Windows/DOS games no longer work. This isn't a DOS
> only thing either. I have Windows games like Dark Reign that refuse to
> work with the latest DirectX.
>
> With XP I've been told all of my DOS games will just stop working. The
> whole DOS concept has been ripped out of XP. So I'm stuck with 98SE if
> I want to play the DOS games. 98SE is end-of-life'd this year.
>
> So if the most popular OS company in the world cannot deliver a stable
> platform to run games on - and I got Dark Reign only 3 years ago - why
> do you expect more from Linux?
>
> My alternative is of course to have a dedicated DOS-only box, just for
> games. I know perps who play the old Sierra adventures this way. So if
> people are willing to do this for DOS surely they're willing to have a
> Linux 2.2 system just for running Linux games? Not likely!
>
> The Linux system is no worse than the Microsoft system as far as games
> are concerned. This is why it is much more sensible to use consoles. I
> am at least then assured that the game will work.
>
> --
> The more I know about the WIN32 API the more I dislike it. It is complex and
> for the most part poorly designed, inconsistent, and poorly documented.
> - David Korn
>
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