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I have yet to find any software that wont run on 98. I have seen a
few utility type downloads that say XP only, but I have not personally
run across any. I do agree about the drivers though. Someone gave me
a flash drive with some stuff on it, and I could not get the flash
drive to work. I finally took another harddrive that I have with
WinME installed on it, stuck it in a very slow old computer and it
read that flash drive easily, and put the files on the hard drive, and
then copied them to my own flash drive (that one works). I have
considered replacing Win98 with WinME just for the driver reasons.
Otherwise it's not all that much different so I could get use to it.
Hmmmmmm, Firefox still works fine and I have the latest version unless
they upgraded in the past 6 weeks or so. Actually, IE works ok too,
and I still have ver 5.5. I do seem to have some problems with
macromedia flash at times, but I usually have flash blocked anyhow. I
am on dialup and that stuff just slows down my browsing.

I have always liked 98. I dont like XP no matter how many times I try
it. I agree it's a great relic, but I do believe that MS quit support
only because they want to sell new OSs and make more money. f course
that means all the hardware companies benefit too. I know this old
computer would not run Vista, and although I do have above the minimum
requirements for XP, It runs slow. (I have another drive with XP on
ot that I have swapped into this computer just to play with it.
I have never fully understood directX, but I do know it invites
spyware online. That makes me sort of get the feeling like "who cares
what version they have, it's software I'd rather not have on my
computer"....
 
Frank McCoy said:
I'm not sure if you're just naive, a complete idiot, or a Micro$hit
shill. The REAL reason for not making DirectX 10 backwards compatible
is to force people to buy their new, completely CRAPPY operating system:
"Vista"; which has no real benefits and about a thousand faults.
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Of course, Microsoft loves to make money. Who doesn't? I already
understand that microsoft wants to make money, but did it make sense
to you that probably one of the main reasons why Microsoft operating
systems are so bloated nowadays is because it contains millions of
lines of spagetti code which attempts to retain backward compatibility
with the dozens or multitudes of previous operating systems? Anyways,
it appears that DirectX 10 needed to be completely overhauled due
to the new hardware requirements for the unified shader architecture
and such....
 
In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt "Robert McNerney"
Of course, Microsoft loves to make money. Who doesn't? I already
understand that microsoft wants to make money, but did it make sense
to you that probably one of the main reasons why Microsoft operating
systems are so bloated nowadays is because it contains millions of
lines of spagetti code which attempts to retain backward compatibility
with the dozens or multitudes of previous operating systems? Anyways,
it appears that DirectX 10 needed to be completely overhauled due
to the new hardware requirements for the unified shader architecture
and such....
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You forget that the whole *POINT* of DirectX at all, is to separate the
hardware needs of fast gaming from the operating-system. There's not a
reason in the world they couldn't make DirectX 10 work all the way back
to Windows 3.0, if they wanted to.

Much easier, of course, to make it work with Windows-95 and up.
That's what the whole concept of DirectX was all about.
For years they made versions of DirectX to run on ALL supported versions
of Windows.

Only now they've decided they want to use DirectX, not for it's original
designed purpose of allowing faster gaming and more direct usage of
video and audio hardware, but to force people to buy their latest
operating-system instead.

Which really sucks.
It's no longer about making Windows the preferred platform for gaming;
but about selling more copies of the latest crap, whether needed or not.

Fits right in with Gates' philosophy though.
;-{
 
Ed Medlin said:
Vista does not have DX10 yet. I think it is a few months out. As of now it
is still using DX9c.
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Huh? DirectX 10 ships with Vista.... you simply need a DX10 compatible
graphics card to use DX10, such as nVidia's GTX8800 graphics card.

Have a look at Wikipedia......it says that DX10 was released in November
of 2006. It also says that Vista "ships with DX10".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX

~ Robert
 
Robert McNerney said:
Huh? DirectX 10 ships with Vista.... you simply need a DX10 compatible
graphics card to use DX10, such as nVidia's GTX8800 graphics card.

Have a look at Wikipedia......it says that DX10 was released in November
of 2006. It also says that Vista "ships with DX10".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX

~ Robert
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The D3D10.0 runtimes shipped with Vista, the entire DX10 package is coming
later this year.

Ed
 
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