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See:-

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=9562

The PC certainly has its advantages - not having to throw out
all the applications with every upgrade....

John Lewis

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I would've said that who cares if you can't play older games, but I have
been playing Red Alert: Yuri's Revenge lately as well as Ravenshield.
Ultimately though, don't PC's with MS OS's still have the same problem?
Let's see you run Duke Nuke 'Em, Terminator: Future Shock or even the
original Doom on any NT-based MS OS -- especially if you're using NTFS.

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"John Lewis" <john.dsl@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> See:-
>
> http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=9562
>
> The PC certainly has its advantages - not having to throw out
> all the applications with every upgrade....
>
> John Lewis

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"Doug" <pigdos@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> I would've said that who cares if you can't play older games, but I have
> been playing Red Alert: Yuri's Revenge lately as well as Ravenshield.
> Ultimately though, don't PC's with MS OS's still have the same problem?
> Let's see you run Duke Nuke 'Em, Terminator: Future Shock or even the
> original Doom on any NT-based MS OS -- especially if you're using NTFS.

I can still run many games that are over 5 years old on a PC. Sometimes
it does take a little tinkering, though.

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On 6/16/2005 8:48 AM John Lewis brightened our day with:

>See:-
>
>http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=9562
>
>The PC certainly has its advantages - not having to throw out
>all the applications with every upgrade....
>
>John Lewis
>
>
I don't get your point, the article is about how they're going about
getting backwards compatibility to work. I'm pretty confident games
like Halo 1&2, KotoR 1&2 and other XBox games I own will play fine on
the XBox360.
Like no one's ever had PC game compatibility issues. There are games
I've given up on for months waiting for driver issues to be resolved.

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i own a yacht wrote:
> In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Inglo <ioo@??.???> wrote:
>
> > Like no one's ever had PC game compatibility issues.
>
> john lewis even keeps old hardware around just so he can play old games.
>
> what a friggin' moron. i'm starting to suspect multiple personality
> disorder.

Hehe.

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"Magnulus" <magnulus@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> "Doug" <pigdos@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:Kshse.2666$NU5.88@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com...
>> I would've said that who cares if you can't play older games, but I have
>> been playing Red Alert: Yuri's Revenge lately as well as Ravenshield.
>> Ultimately though, don't PC's with MS OS's still have the same problem?
>> Let's see you run Duke Nuke 'Em, Terminator: Future Shock or even the
>> original Doom on any NT-based MS OS -- especially if you're using NTFS.
>
> I can still run many games that are over 5 years old on a PC. Sometimes
> it does take a little tinkering, though.
>
>

Start>All Programs>Accessories>Program Compatibility Wizard

Tinker around here. You'll be surprised at what you can get to run doing
this.

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John Lewis wrote:
> I would suggest that you
> adopt the "SHOW ME"
> attitude to any Xbox360
> purchase

Here, here! Let's wait and see whether the Xbox360 is capable of
backwards compability at launch before we start harping on about it
like you are now.

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On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:07:06 GMT, "Doug" <pigdos@nospam.com> wrote:

>I would've said that who cares if you can't play older games, but I have
>been playing Red Alert: Yuri's Revenge lately as well as Ravenshield.
>Ultimately though, don't PC's with MS OS's still have the same problem?
>Let's see you run Duke Nuke 'Em, Terminator: Future Shock or even the
>original Doom on any NT-based MS OS -- especially if you're using NTFS.

You are comparing 13 years old PC games to previous-generation (0-5
years) console games.

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On 16 Jun 2005 12:38:04 -0700, flightlessvacuum@gmail.com wrote:

>
>
>i own a yacht wrote:
>> In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Inglo <ioo@??.???> wrote:
>>
>> > Like no one's ever had PC game compatibility issues.
>>
>> john lewis even keeps old hardware around just so he can play old games.
>>
>> what a friggin' moron. i'm starting to suspect multiple personality
>> disorder.
>
>Hehe.
>

Is mindlessvacuum@gmail.com a cousin to Sailor ?

John Lewis

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> See:-
>
> http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=9562
>
> The PC certainly has its advantages - not having to throw out
> all the applications with every upgrade....
>
> John Lewis

who cares? i'm buying xbox 2 for xbox 2 games, not xbox games.

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On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 05:01:40 GMT, jussi <jussi@hopmail.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:07:06 GMT, "Doug" <pigdos@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>>I would've said that who cares if you can't play older games, but I have
>>been playing Red Alert: Yuri's Revenge lately as well as Ravenshield.
>>Ultimately though, don't PC's with MS OS's still have the same problem?
>>Let's see you run Duke Nuke 'Em, Terminator: Future Shock or even the
>>original Doom on any NT-based MS OS -- especially if you're using NTFS.
>
>You are comparing 13 years old PC games to previous-generation (0-5
>years) console games.

That's the point, his PC is backwards compatible.

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On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 14:44:14 GMT, i own a yacht <me@privacy.net>
wrote:

>In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action jussi <jussi@hopmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Who pissed in your flakes? It is not uncommon for gamers, who also
>> like older games, to keep their older PC or console around in order to
>> play them properly. PC DOS game emulators still don't emulate Roland
>> MT-32 or SCC-1 properly, for example.
>
>thanks for the history lesson. it's also fairly common for blowhards
>like john lewis to whine when they need to use special software or older
>hardware to use older software even though they keep 4+ computers
>around just to do the same thing.

Actually, I really only need the 2 PCs, since the PC Amiga emulator
runs most of the Amiga games just fine in which I have any interest.
However, parallelism is very convenient and I have spare Amiga
monitors that double up as TV monitors :-) :-)

Got any consoles with great emulators ?

2 PCs spanning 20 years of great gaming --- not bad. Tell me
about the 2 consoles that do that.....

John Lewis

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It's not important. Keep your old XFLop for backward compatibility.

It's important. What if the XFLop dies and you don't want an ebay
ripoff replacement since XFLop isn't made anymore.

It's not important. Just get the new games.

It's important. There aren't many new games at the beginning plus there
are older games worth keeping and playing.

It's not important. The PowerPC and ATI GPU won't be able to run the
Intel and Nvidia GPU code natively, so forget it.

It's important. It is so important, xflop 1.5 full circle will pay
Nvidia royalty rights to use GPU code for the life of the console plus
develop an emulator and provide patches for the original games to run
under the emulator.

It's not important. The emulator and patched games won't run all the
games perfectly, so don't expect much.

It's important. Since the emulator and patching won't allow full
compatibility, some of the top seller titles will be ported over
completely to the PowerPC and ATI GPU. People will be willing to re-buy
these games to have "backward" compatibility.

And so on... It might help if the xflop 1.5 full circle could make up
its mind but that would be expecting too much. This situation doesn't
apply to the Playstation3 or the Nintendo Revolution. The Playstation2
was backwardly compatible with the Playstation and the Playstation 3
will be backwardly compatible with the Playstation 2 and the
Playstation. Plain and simple.

> See:-
>
> http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=9562
>
> The PC certainly has its advantages - not having to throw out
> all the applications with every upgrade....

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On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:48:47 GMT, john.dsl@verizon.net (John Lewis)
wrote:

>See:-
>
>http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=9562
>
>The PC certainly has its advantages - not having to throw out
>all the applications with every upgrade....
>
>John Lewis


Here is a followup article:-

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/feature.php?aid=9591

M$$ has got themselves a real Catch22 of their own making.
They set the launch for the Christmas season. There will be very few
Xbox360 titles of any note available by that time.

If M$$ continues with their flaky backward-compatibility plans, many
Thanksgiving/Christmas shoppers will buy new Xbox game titles
expecting them to also work perfectly on the Xbox360. And when they
don't, expect a huge backlash.

Just before the buying season, M$$ should issue a definitive list
of Xbox games, both current and upcoming GUARANTEED to work
on the Xbox360. Then buyers can make the ultimate decision
themselves --- of course those games not on the list will potentially

have negatively-impacted sales.

And how could M$$ guarantee compatibility ?. Junk the download
patch-emulation nonsense and just make replacement compatible
DVDs available on a free-exchange basis to current purchasers
of games on the list. Also they could sell the Xbox360 version
of the most popular existing Xbox titles ( Halo, Halo2, Jade Empire
etc ) as Platinum ( budget) Xbox 360 titles.

Recompiling Microsoft Studios Xbox games for the Xbox360
should be easy, with nVidia's license and access to source.
For the most popular 3rd-party titles, M$$ could provide the
trancoding tools for free to the developers and subsidize the
disc exchange.

The proposal to try to patch the Xbox360 with downloadable
profiles is technical nonsense and fraught with practical problems.

Meanwhile Sony can sit back and learn from M$$'s mess.
Sony have very wisely chosen to release the PS3 during the
slack season... so if the schedule slips a month or two little harm is
done. If the Xbox360 slips Thanksgiving after all the advance
publicity ( and expectation in the software retail channel ) M$$ will
have major egg on its face. And a bunch of very angry retailers.

Nice to have a PC for gaming and be insulated from all this nonsense.

John Lewis

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John Lewis wrote:

> M$$
> M$$
> M$$
> M$$
> M$$
> M$$'s
> M$$

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Quoth The Raven "Blig Merk"<blig_murk@yahoo.com> in
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> It's not important. Keep your old XFLop for backward compatibility.

to me its important, I never bought the original xbox even though I wanted
the buffy games, I waited to see if there was a pc emulator for xbox, but
that never happened, but I will definitely buy the xbox360 so I want those
games to be compatible with the new box

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