Shaun: Well, there is a saying, "if there is a will there is a way," and I have found that to be true most of the time. I don't think upgrading is going to cause as much loss of games and applications as most people seem to think. Yes, there will be issues with some games and apps, that is bound to happen at some point, but I think you are making a bigger deal out of compatibility issues than is really warranted by this situation.
You have not specified here if you are talking about accessible games or standard video games, but I can say that most video games will be playable through emulators. I have already found a number of 32-bit and 64-bit emulators that work fine with Windows 8.x, and play Atari, NES, and SNES games. So right there I don't see those games having compatibility issues. As for text adventures like Infocom, ZCode, Tads, AGT, and so on again there are plenty of Windows 8 compatible interpreters around. I can use Winfrotz with Sapi to play all the classic ZCode games, and Tads32 works fine with Tads games. Agility for Windows plays a number of text adventures in Windows 8 too. The point being chill out. I think you are freaking out and making a big deal out of nothing. Unless you can offer up some specific games that won't work under Windows 8 or on a 64-bit platform we can look at alternatives to make it work, but otherwise I think you are just worrying unnecessarily over compatibility issues both real and imagined. Cheers! On 12/29/13, shaun everiss <sm.ever...@gmail.com> wrote: > I also like older games though with xp dieing even though I will have > it to play older stuff and will stay 32 bit otherwise as long as I > can there will come a day where I may just not be able to play the > old classics without a major fiddling round. > Or I get a server to run vms on that may happen, sertainly I will not > be trying to run a vm on my win 7 wrig again to slow. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
