Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP DOS emulation is probably needed anyway, at some point, because I don't know of a DOS screen reader that handled certain games using direct screen writes (like Graham Cluley's Humbug or Jacaranda Jim). I have DOSEmu running under Lin

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP DOS emulation is probably needed anyway, at some point, because I don't know of a DOS screen reader that handled certain games using direct screen writes (like Graham Cluley's Humbug or Jacaranda Jim). I have DOSEmu running under Lin

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP Dos games are I think the one area where xp is still necessary, t hose and the classic bsc titles (though imho the second versions were better). However I'd personally prefer if the community got a good solution up and running for talking d

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP Well ... I find myself with a 2010 Mac Mini, no longer in use. And, what do you know, it supports Windows XP! Wouldn't it just be absolutely hilarious if I were, now, to install XP on the native hardware (it's now too slow for a plea

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP Well Cae personally I think nintendo should still! be making games for my snes and ggb advanced rather than all this 3d nonsense that I can't play, indeed it was lack of playable games that got me into audiogames in the first place . I agree

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP Well Cae personally I think nintendo should still! be making games for my snes and ggb advanced rather than all this 3d nonsense that I can't play, indeed it was lack of playable games that got me into audiogames in the first place . I agree

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP I'm not currently using Windows XP, though I was rather considering buying an XP laptop a couple months ago. The thing is? This idea of software upgrades as a manditory part of life never sat well with me. And I suppose I mean "upgrad

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP Well Sebby I will admit that Windows 10 has been far less problematic than I thought especially in terms of layout, the moral of the story seems to be that I should've tried the dam thing out rather than assuming what I'd seen on windows

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Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP @Dark: it's fair enough and I'm absolutely not arguing with your choices, in fact apart from the blow-out with Dolphin it sounds like you're doing great and I'm really happy for you. And I agree that Classic Shell is an abs

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Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP To be honest Sebby as I said with the add thing and installing c cleaner, I install c cleaner on any machine as a matter of course. I've got it on this xp laptop and have been using it for quite a while, ever since Avg Pc tuneup buggered

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Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP @Dark, I must say that it's remarkable how well you've adapted. Much as I predicted you would ... and somewhat ironically, given my position now of recalcitrance where Windows is concerned. It's nice that you're on a modern OS

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Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP Hmmm, Chris, odd you mention these adverts. I've never noticed such things in windows explorer, and all of the crap like mine craft, candy crush and the xbox addons I just removed with C cleaner, hell I could remove tips n tricks too, but d

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP Windows 10 has advertisements for apps and games on the Start Menu, Lock Screen, soon file Explorer, and a few other areas I'm forgetting. Microsoft doesn't like to call these advertisements and prefers the term "tips and tricks&qu

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP I have never seen an ad in Windows 10, outside of third party websites. Never. Are you sure you don't just have malware?I used XP until 2010. It became clear that I needed a computer with higher specs (and a second computer, in case mine bro

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Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP Dark, try OE Classic. It's supposed to be an Outlook Express clone that runs on newer versions of Windows. It can be found at https://www.oeclassic.com/downloadI have to agree with Dark concerning Windows XP and the internet. At this poi

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP Well In fairness I did use Xp longer than planned since I originally intended to get a new pc much earlier, but things like getting married got in the way of that temporarily.As to other things, I did try 7 several times and disliked it. The

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP Out of curiosity, Dark, why did you use XP until recently? Did you try the other OS releases and go back, and if so what didn't you like about them? Or did you have another reason for not upgrading until recently? URL: http://forum.audiogame

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Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP As I said Joseph, I did use xp up until recently and indeed this is an xp laptop I'm using now. But these days there is just too much that won't work on xp to make it worth the continual hassle of trying to runn it, and most older game

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP Hello,As I'm playing video games like Killer instinct for example win 10 is only one option but it's okay for me. I can't see a point why to use older versions of windows. Win 10 is working really stable here and I'm happy

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP This is all really interesting. I'm surprised that thus far, the only people who are using XP are those running Windows in a VM on a Mac. That's really fascinating. Obviously this is a very small sample size—but maybe it's not

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Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP Actually Pitermach, it's Supernova 14 that was the first version not! to support xp. on this xp laptop I have 13.59  which was the last version of Sn to work with Supernova, then again as I said for windows 10 I have largely switched to

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP Hi.I'm running Windows 10 on a virtual machine on my Mac without any issues. It runs very stable, and much better than Windows 7. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=303513#p3

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP Hmmm, I find this talk of adds on windows 10 rather strange since I don't notice any particularly, not on the operating system itself. it is true that there was a lot of stuff which came with the computer by default which I removed using c cl

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP Joseph,Right now I have Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 8.1 computers.Back in 1995 to 2000 I developed games for DOS that required a hardware speech synthesizer.They worked on Windows 95 and 98 computers and still worked great on XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP I'm basically with Chris and Jack, in most regards. On a Mac, an XP VM is small and efficient, has a Start menu that I actually want to use, and can be locked down tighter than a duck's arse. Later versions of Windows are simply less goo

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP I'm one of the people who are on modern Windows. Honestly, I like seeing software drop support for XP. People will have to move over eventually, and the longer they wait, the more difficult it's going to be to get familiar with current v

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP I've not run on XP for many years, I upgraded from XP to 8, then from 8 to 8.1 and then to 10, as I'd found 7 to be the clunkiest operating system that I've ever had the displeasure to try.But that's beside the point.  I&#x

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP You're right, I don't know of anyone else who has my situation practically forcing me to run xp. You'd think running on a fairly top of the line mac with 8gb ram opens up a world of opportunity for running all versions of wi

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP Ok, thanks for the info. Jack, I imagine your situation is a little unique, but I'm mostly wondering about Windows users who are still using XP. Maybe it's not actually as common as I thought. I guess we'll see—I hope a lot m

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP I'm in a position where I certainly could use windows 7, I did use windows 7 for 5 years now and can live with it, I have my reasons for not yet upgrading to windows 10, privacy concerns related to telemetry, and the ads built in. But my situ

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP I used to primarily use Windows XP because I couldn't stand newer versions of Windows. When I moved to a Mac in 2013, my only reason for using Windows was to play games so I continued to use XP. The other problem I observed was that some o

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP I suspect it's a matter of just... not knowing what's gonna happen like you saidin my case I took mine to win 7 as soon as I could then win 10, I haven't looked back and most audio games still work, it's just a matter of tra

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP I used to primarily use Windows XP because I couldn't stand newer versions of Windows. When I moved to a Mac in 2013, my only reason for using Windows was to play games so I continued to use XP. However, I'm now ready to upgrade to the

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP i always try to upgrade to a new OS when it comes out. even if their are bugs. I like to see what the devs broke and made better. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=303356#p303356

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP Hello.Well right now I'm not on xp I'm running windows 7. I did have an xp desktop years ago and I liked it but I like windows 7 more.Personally I have no problem upgrading I've never done it so I don't know how but that'