If we paid for the initial releases, which we did, that's fair enough.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Note to XP users
Hi Charles,
Well, as far as general compatibility I agree with you, but not the
exact same criteria. Since many of those orders were taken back in
2004 and were paid to James North for games that worked with XP I'm
certainly not going to screw people over who are using XP because I
believe in giving people what they paid for.
However, in terms of criteria well obviously we have to be a bit
flexible on that point. The games I got from James North were written
in Visual Basic 6, used DirectX 8, and both technologies are
essentially dead-ends in terms of long term support. There is no way I
intend to base new releases on those technologies or exact criteria
although I am willing to compromise on general XP support itself for
fairness sake.
However, those games have been rewritten from scratch in C++, have
DirectX 8 support for XP compatibility,, but at some point I intend to
replace various components in Raceway and MOTA with newer ones in
order to be better forward compatible with Vista and beyond. Those
updates will not be available to XP users because the OS is simply too
old, and I guess people will have to be satisfied with the initial
releases for XP.
Cheers!
On 9/12/13, Charles Rivard <wee1s...@fidnet.com> wrote:
Sure, if you show me the money. (grin)
On another question you asked about those who preordered games that you
are
now working on, here's a thought: As for what OS should be used, I think
the answer should be this: What were the criteria needed to run the
games
at the time of purchase? Those same criteria should still be used. That
would be right, because we knew what we needed to run the game when we
bought the game. Those who have an OS that won't allow those games to be
run would be those who would either have to pay for game upgrades. If a
game needs Windows Xp to run, and you know that before buying the game,
it's
not the developer's fault if it doesn't run on your OS.
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