as for all the comments about xp being a disk hog, win3.1 took up nearly a quarter of my 40meg hard drive. now that 40gig hard drives are the standard this equates to windows xp taking about a 90% less install size to disk size ratio than 3.1 used to.
nope, i was deadly serious. if the current situation continues then linux will never become a viable gaming platform for several reasons, the main ones being the small user base, the lack of hardware support and the fact the the average user expects to get everything for free.
what's this obsession with time wasting, anyway? browsing slashdot might be occaisionally amusing, but it's hardly productive, is it?
and i know i posted this in another response, but... IANAT (i am not a troll) but it does amuse me to see you all kludging around just to get games working on the architecture they were originally designed for.
still, have a nice life too. life's to short to be bitter.
wasting your time, am i? i didn't force you to read my comment, much less reply to it. fuckhead.
how about winxp as a gaming platform? i've tried it. most games work, a few more require patches. but that's not good enough. if i've already bought it, i want to be able to play it. hence the return to 98.
"it's already good enough to play Counter-Strike, Starcraft, and a bunch of other games!"? cool. i've got tekken 2 and gran turismo working on my playstation port of bleem.
well, i can see that you'll never be happy whatever os you're running. fine. but you can fix annoyances can you? alright, get rid of case sensitivity in the file system. that bugs the shit out of me.
i completely fail to see how you could use the source code to get a previously unworking game up and running without ragging through reams of c. and what else would you use it for? bedtime stories?
are you sure you meant "willing to use" and not "willing to pay for"?
as for deeper, more detailed games: doom -> quake -> half-life -> deus ex. it's pretty simple when it's spelt out in black and white.
IANAT but it does amuse me to see you all kludging around just to get games working on the architecture they were originally designed for.
there's enough information out there already to form a valid opinion. and why the hell would i use winex when i can get all my games working under 98? now that would be daft.
1. do you actually know what you are writing here? my post made perfect sense. your point doesn't. keep practicing that quoting thing, you'll get it right one day.
2. criticism i can take. but just because my opinion differs does not make me a troll.
3. i did have a brief hunt around, and couldn't find any reference to deus ex. i therefore assumed it wouldn't work. i stand corrected. however, i never said that half life didn't work (although the forum seems to be full of be full of people having grief over it). i said it was the most popularly ranked game, and happened to be 'another' windows fps.
4. i just grabbed the 30% figure from a random post. obviously the statistic for some games will be higher, some will be lower. the point is they're still slower.
5. aren't they the two most popular genres though?
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nice try at being a smartarse, shame you couldn't pull it off.
what a typical response from another fucking linux zealot. you're quite happy to take a rip at windows, but the minute someone points out there are things that linux doesn't exactly excel at you brand them a troll. i'm merely expressing an opinion, and i'm sure that i'm not the only one holding it.
all fps' on windows are alike are they? you've probably been so starved of games that you haven't been able to play one since doom. how about deus ex, noone lives forever, clive barker's undying and system shock 2? all are great games, demonstrate inovation and originality, and (what a coincidence) none of them work on linux. and what's the most 'popular' game on the site? half life. a windows fps.
only a fool would claim that any operating system is perfect. but win98 is more stable that you would give it credit for. the vast majority of bugs are within the games themselves; do you really expect to get the source code to them? maybe you should start to appreciate that the source is a luxury, not an unalienable right.
you talk about being able to take a 30% performance hit, and 'reasonable platforms' (what's your definition of reasonable? can a 'reasonable platform' be expected to sacrifice a third of its processing power?). bear in mind that the goalposts are constantly shifting, and that more power can be used to create deeper, more detailed games.
if i'm paying for a commercial game, i expect to get what i've paid for, not a slightly suspect version where i've had to disable all the bells and whistles because my cpu has been deep throated by an api translation layer. if i wanted a cheap'n'nasty gaming experience i'd go with the open source offerings.
useful product? it lets you play a handful of aging games (aparrently none too well, either; the only game with a '5' had to be reworked to even get it working). i believe there was a quote of a 30% performance hit as well. that's pretty harsh; should be enough to bump up the resolution another notch and turn on a few more detail options.
and source code? who gives a fuck? playing games should be fun, not having to rag your way through reams of c to get the bastard running. don't expect too much in the future, either - to the best of my knowledge there has never been a 100% accurate emulation of a non-trivial system ever.
c'mon, leave this open source bullshit behind you and get an operating system that proper games will work on. you know you want to.
yeah, that's really fucking flamebait, isn't it. responding to someone who thinks he's the dido's dildo, just because he can change a couple of words into symbols.
just because google is only picking them up now doesn't mean that they haven't been there for years!
how can someone be so blatantly stupid as to store anything other than their web content, never mind credit card details, in their published folders? how? they redirected my documents to c:\inetpub\wwwroot\%username%\...???
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yup. good idea.
as for all the comments about xp being a disk hog, win3.1 took up nearly a quarter of my 40meg hard drive. now that 40gig hard drives are the standard this equates to windows xp taking about a 90% less install size to disk size ratio than 3.1 used to.
eh up! this is america in the 21st century. you can sue for anything!
i think you'll find that it's whose.
what's this obsession with time wasting, anyway? browsing slashdot might be occaisionally amusing, but it's hardly productive, is it?
and i know i posted this in another response, but... IANAT (i am not a troll) but it does amuse me to see you all kludging around just to get games working on the architecture they were originally designed for.
still, have a nice life too. life's to short to be bitter.
oh i see. how much do you usually get paid for playing games then?
how about winxp as a gaming platform? i've tried it. most games work, a few more require patches. but that's not good enough. if i've already bought it, i want to be able to play it. hence the return to 98.
"it's already good enough to play Counter-Strike, Starcraft, and a bunch of other games!"? cool. i've got tekken 2 and gran turismo working on my playstation port of bleem.
i completely fail to see how you could use the source code to get a previously unworking game up and running without ragging through reams of c. and what else would you use it for? bedtime stories?
are you sure you meant "willing to use" and not "willing to pay for"?
as for deeper, more detailed games: doom -> quake -> half-life -> deus ex. it's pretty simple when it's spelt out in black and white.
IANAT but it does amuse me to see you all kludging around just to get games working on the architecture they were originally designed for.
there's enough information out there already to form a valid opinion. and why the hell would i use winex when i can get all my games working under 98? now that would be daft.
way to go with the insult dude. makes you look really intelligent and mature. and not like a cunt or anything.
2. criticism i can take. but just because my opinion differs does not make me a troll.
3. i did have a brief hunt around, and couldn't find any reference to deus ex. i therefore assumed it wouldn't work. i stand corrected. however, i never said that half life didn't work (although the forum seems to be full of be full of people having grief over it). i said it was the most popularly ranked game, and happened to be 'another' windows fps.
4. i just grabbed the 30% figure from a random post. obviously the statistic for some games will be higher, some will be lower. the point is they're still slower.
5. aren't they the two most popular genres though?
nice try at being a smartarse, shame you couldn't pull it off.
all fps' on windows are alike are they? you've probably been so starved of games that you haven't been able to play one since doom. how about deus ex, noone lives forever, clive barker's undying and system shock 2? all are great games, demonstrate inovation and originality, and (what a coincidence) none of them work on linux. and what's the most 'popular' game on the site? half life. a windows fps.
only a fool would claim that any operating system is perfect. but win98 is more stable that you would give it credit for. the vast majority of bugs are within the games themselves; do you really expect to get the source code to them? maybe you should start to appreciate that the source is a luxury, not an unalienable right.
you talk about being able to take a 30% performance hit, and 'reasonable platforms' (what's your definition of reasonable? can a 'reasonable platform' be expected to sacrifice a third of its processing power?). bear in mind that the goalposts are constantly shifting, and that more power can be used to create deeper, more detailed games.
if i'm paying for a commercial game, i expect to get what i've paid for, not a slightly suspect version where i've had to disable all the bells and whistles because my cpu has been deep throated by an api translation layer. if i wanted a cheap'n'nasty gaming experience i'd go with the open source offerings.
i rest my case.
anything else is a driver-related issue.
i finished the marine missions for aliens vs predator 2 yesterday. how are you doing?
of course i know what i'm fucking talking about, dickhead.
and source code? who gives a fuck? playing games should be fun, not having to rag your way through reams of c to get the bastard running. don't expect too much in the future, either - to the best of my knowledge there has never been a 100% accurate emulation of a non-trivial system ever.
c'mon, leave this open source bullshit behind you and get an operating system that proper games will work on. you know you want to.
how much is a copy of win98 going for these days?
i've also taken games back to whsmith, and apparantly hmv has a 60 day returns period.
fuckarse moderator.
and what are you doing with my email? cunt.
how can someone be so blatantly stupid as to store anything other than their web content, never mind credit card details, in their published folders? how? they redirected my documents to c:\inetpub\wwwroot\%username%\...???
the microsoft in front of things is to tell you who published it.
now i'm off to play sierra.monolith.win.aliensversuspredator 2.0
surely you mean a msdba?
worm needs stored procedures. msde doesn't have them. no worm. fuckhead.