to any Hal users, in a recent chat with Dolphin, i'm informed that Hal V8.0 wil be compatable with Vista, but it won't be released for a while (Earliest September 207). Stil, even though I do rather fancy the blue ray support and internal burning features (that expression has always bothered me), I'm not really in too much of a hurry to upgrade, not until stuf I want to do becomes impossible on Xp, or my Pc explodes and I need a new one. Beware the Grue! Dark. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 4:39 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Windows Vista
> Hi Kim and all, > I am approving this topic as I am certain many gamers are going to be > asking the same kinds of questions. > Overview > > Windows Vista is a totally new operating system, and is the first > operating system to offer a fully 3D graphical operating environment > Microsoft has named Windows Arrow. > The new Windows Explorer can not only burn data cds and music cds it has > been updated to burn data dvds, your home vidios and pictures to dvds, > and with Windows media center you can play your dvds and edit media > content. > Windows Vista has an all new firewall which allows you to block all > ports you are not using to prevent hackers, crackers, trogen horses, and > other attempts to access your data and content remotely. > Windows Vista comes with the .NET Framework 3.0, DirectX 10.0, and > Windows Media 11, Internet Explorer 7.0, Outlook Express 7.0, Windows > Media Center, and a bunch of other new stuff never seen before. > In addition Windows Vista is the first and only operating system that > supports the playing of the new blue ray high definition dvds that have > just came out on the market in the USA. According to press releases from > MS only Vista and newer operating systems will support the blue ray high > def disk technology. > Since .NET framework 3.0 is now a core component of the operating system > rather than an add on Microsoft has bundled the managed DirectX 10 and > Managed SAPI support for .NET enabled games and applications right out > of the box. No extra software required. Good news for Monty and Raceway > fans which are already using the .NET technologies as the core component > of those games. > Apparently Windows Vista has also intruduced some built in speech > recognition into the operating system which allows you to voice dictate > emails in Outlook Express, and other documents using notepad wordpad, > etc.. > I've read there is suppose to be some new features with Vista that > allows you to interface with the MS XBox 360, and do some special things > if you have an XBox as well. > One other cool feature I read about is Windows Vista is installed from > images rather than a triditional setup file so the os is litterally > extracted on to your hard drive, and ran and configured from that point. > Here is a general list of requirements for running Vista with Windows > Arrow disabled which I think most blind users would likely wish to do. > You need at least a 40 MB hard drive, 512 MB of ram, 800 MHZ processor, > a dvd disk drive, and a video card that supports 3D axcelerated > graphics. If you want all the really cool blue ray support and the > Windows Arrow desktop experience we are talking a gig of memory and > somethinglike a 1.2 GHZ processor, 3D graphics card, and so on. > > Kim Etheridge wrote: >> Hi. I know this is off topic, but what all comes with Windows Vista? >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can > visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
