The Xbox360 backward-compatibility mess....

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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.
 
Doug said:
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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I can still run many games that are over 5 years old on a PC. Sometimes
it does take a little tinkering, though.
 
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 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.
 
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.
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I would suggest that you adopt the "SHOW ME" attitude to any Xbox360
purchase, if running these games are important to you -- or just keep
your Xbox and an interface switcher.

The emulation will NOT work well in general.....no better than other
past attempts at emulating incompatible hardware.

One easy path for M$$--- they could provide free Xbox360-compatible
DVDs to current Xbox owners of M$$ Studios games... not so for the 3rd
parties. And most likelty restricted to the few most popular titles.
The rest can go suck a banana..............

John Lewis
 
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Inglo said:
Like no one's ever had PC game compatibility issues.
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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.
 
i said:
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.
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Hehe.
 
john lewis even keeps old hardware around just so he can play old games.
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Actually only one "older" PC....that takes care of all DOS/Win
(non-XP) games back to circa 1990. The one that I use every day to
read your delicious news postings, like right now....and for e-mail,
word-processing and such-like. And a couple of Amigas for 1985 thru
1992, since there were no decent games on the pee-cee, unless
pong and 'adventure' are included ( they were ported to the Amiga
anyway..)

How many consoles have there been since 1990 ?
what a friggin' moron. i'm starting to suspect multiple personality
disorder.
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Mirror, mirror, on the wall.....

How very true....not just this morning, either...

John Lewis
 
Magnulus said:
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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Start>All Programs>Accessories>Program Compatibility Wizard

Tinker around here. You'll be surprised at what you can get to run doing
this.
 
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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I've done that myself quite a few times, and it worked most of the
time. I even got "Syndicate" using (I believe) NT emulation. For those
that are unfimiliar, Syndicate was out when the fastest IBM clone
available was a 486. I played it on a 486-sx25 with 4 meg of ram and
512k of video memory.
 
John said:
I would suggest that you
adopt the "SHOW ME"
attitude to any Xbox360
purchase
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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.
 
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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You are comparing 13 years old PC games to previous-generation (0-5
years) console games.
 
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.
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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.

If you think that makes one a moron or suffering from a multiple
personality disorder, them you are simply dumb as a ****.
 
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action John Lewis said:
Actually only one "older" PC....that takes care of all DOS/Win
(non-XP) games back to circa 1990. The one that I use every day to
read your delicious news postings, like right now....and for e-mail,
word-processing and such-like. And a couple of Amigas for 1985 thru
1992, since there were no decent games on the pee-cee, unless
pong and 'adventure' are included ( they were ported to the Amiga
anyway..)
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yeah, so you keep at least 4 separate computers around just so you
can use old software. like i said, mpd.
How very true....not just this morning, either...
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haha, i get it. you removed jim's name (but left the quotes in, woops)
so it seems like i said it! genius! i don't think you're going to be
able to top that masterstroke.
 
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action jussi said:
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.
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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.

so, yeah, you're out of the loop here.
If you think that makes one a moron or suffering from a multiple
personality disorder, them you are simply dumb as a ****.
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and responding to posts in the middle of a thread as if they exist in a
vacuum makes you simply dumb as ****.
 
i own a yacht said:
yeah, so you keep at least 4 separate computers around just so you
can use old software. like i said, mpd.


haha, i get it. you removed jim's name (but left the quotes in, woops)
so it seems like i said it! genius! i don't think you're going to be
able to top that masterstroke.
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With a shit-dick attitude like that, you better own a hell of a lot more
than a Yacht if you ever want women to like you. (and please don't tell me
they already do because we ALLLLLL know that's not true)
 
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Tony DiMarzio said:
With a shit-dick attitude like that, you better own a hell of a lot more
than a Yacht if you ever want women to like you. (and please don't tell me
they already do because we ALLLLLL know that's not true)
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maybe if i throw a dj in front of my name the ladies will come flocking.

by the way, is the 81 your d.o.b? i mean, you're 24 and using "you sux
with grrls" as an insult on the internet? pretty sad.
 
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