Hi Richard, Well, in my experience emulators are a bad idea because they often aren't accessible. However, virtual machines are becoming quite popular and are very accessible.Plus it makes it possible to run any operating system inside a virtual machine.
For example, my laptop is running Ubuntu Linux 12.04.1 as the primary OS, but obviously I can't play Shades of Doom, Tank Commander, and so on in Linux. So what I've done is install Windows 7 in a virtual machine with all my games and Windows applications. That way if I want to play a Windows based game or run an application like Goldwave its as simply as booting the virtual machine and I can toggle back and forth between Linux and Windows at the same time. The only disadvantage to doing it this way is Windows apps will run slower in a virtual machine, but it is the best way I know of to maintain two operating systems at the same time. Still, for those people looking to upgrade to a brand new Windows 8 machine with a 64-bit processor etc, they can simply install XP into a virtual machine and run it for older apps and games that don't work as well on Windows 8. Therefore a person can get the best of both worlds. So, yes, where there is a will there is a way. :D Cheers! On 9/13/12, Richard Sherman <squir...@gmail.com> wrote: > HI, > > Thanks for expanding on my thought there. I meant no disrespect to any other > > programmer who currently uses VB6. Just those 2 games which are one of the > few multiplayer ones out there came to mind and used them as an example. > > I take my hat off to all the programmers out there. I am old school, Cobol, > > Fortran, basic, rpg, and a few other now dead languages, are what I cut my > teeth on many years ago. Got my associates in computer science but got > burned out and never got back into programming. It is those of you who now > pave the way for great games for me to play with that I salute you. > > Should have also said that even in the future, emulators and such will > probably keep VB6 around for some time. just like those types of things keep > > dos and some really old, even arcade games, still around. > > Seems like where there is a will, there is a way. > > Rich --- 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://mail.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.
