Thanks for letting me know about that.
I wonder if Draconis Entertaiment will be making their games Windows 7
compatible starting in 2009 as well.
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From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 12:52 PM
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Subject: [Audyssey] Windows 7 gaming was gamebooks of Arborell
Hi Trenton,
Yes, I have. I did manage to get ahold of the Windows 7 early beta and
things are not looking too good for the majority of accessible games. The
Windows 7 beta release I tested did not ship with any VB 6 support at all
natively. That means the majority of the accessible games out there from
GMA, Jim Kitchen, BSC, L-Works, DanZ Games, and so on are not going to
work out of the box with Windows 7. I'm sorry to say unless those
developers are willing to put the time and money into going to something
like VB .NET. Those games are going to be difficult to get running on
Windows 7, and you basically have to force a full VB 6 runtime install on
there and hope it all works when Win 7 is finally released.
On the bright side those developers who have walked away from VB and are
using .NET technologies should be good to go. Rail Racer current demo
worked fine on Windows 7 once you installed a copy of the managed DirectX
libraries and .NET Framework 1.1. The 3D Volocity game by BPC Programs
also worked ok. All of the USA Games products are being made Windows 7
ready. Beyond that have fun installing and fiddling with VB 6 libraries
trying to get them to run properly.
Trenton Matthews wrote:
Just wait til Windows Seven comes out.
Not liking the results for it. By the way, I hear the Windows Seven start
up sound is quite strange.
From a gaming perspective, has anyone tried Windows Seven beta with any
of
the blind friendly games out there yet?
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