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maybe look for another specific stone value..,
or why should I try to pen aid trade them or how come Rune maps look that awfull good? func.., an oasis in popping up land. widescreen is no causing me as many issues as windows fucking 7.
It seems to be a fine operating system, but at least 2 old games (Beyond Good and evil, King Kong) I have tried to install wont because of incompatibility between their protection software and windows 7 (starforce basically). I really liked these games too... the book is especially great (/ranting asshole mode)
(I find it annoying that games like DEVIL MAY CRY (the lamest gothic console pukeshit) have the nerve to call characters in the game DANTE, and that games and movies now seem happy to rip classic TITLES for the name recognition without even having anything to do with it. B G&E is famous because of a genius, don't rip the title fucktard.) (/ranting asshole mode) to install/run older games (microsoft's windows xp mode), it isnt available for download to me because I forked out for Windows 7 Home Premium only and not whatever else was on offer.
Absolute joke. You could run XP under virtualisation (VMWare or Parallels or something). Then the only question is what host OS is the best. Win 7 has new games of course.
But I saw OSX running XP via Parallels and it's sooooo gorgeous and seemless. You just need a big piece of RAM to move everything along. I think most VMs have hardware acceleration nowadays too. I've never actually done it though. install xp on a separate partition?
i may be biased as i never touched vista or 7. xp does everything i need it to and is running beautifully at the moment after a fresh reinstall - not to mention the horror stories i've heard in getting old games & apps to run in 7... I bought Pro specifically for that, but it turned out different from what I expected. It works for older programs and drivers - e.g. I can still use my ancient scanner. However, I think it's useless for games, as its generic drivers don't support 3D hardware, for instance, and it's not even possible to switch to complete fullscreen.
So an alternate XP partition would be the way to go. I'm dual booting XP and Windows 7. The only two situations I still require XP is for Fallout 3 (which runs on 7 but stutters like hell, runs perfectly on XP) and bsp2wad.exe doesn't support 64bit, so I can run that in XP. But I just use TexMex instead :D
XP is a great OS, it's useful to have it on my PC for when I need it. is a pretty good virtual machine, and free. It can do Direct3D acceleration in the guest OS... might be worth trying.
Dual-booting XP and Win7 is probably pretty painless, though, compared to Win/Linux or Win/Mac, since they both can read and write NTFS. fake screenshots from an isometric quake and quake 2 game:
http://tale-of-tales.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=104552&sid=5b889cefb2cf1c0caf6244c9aaacc71f The Q2 one is so authentic with its misaligned textures and no lighting.
The perspective is a bit messed up though (the roof) Anyone we know still working, err I mean was working at Krome when they fell through?
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/112/1128466p1.html Anyone have a link to that site where someone 'took a look at' how WinQuake works? He went over the network code, renderer, etc. On the first page he also had 'The C Programming Language,' 'Graphics Programming Black Book,' 'Real Time Rendering,' and 'Masters of Doom' listed as what he was reading when he wrote the article.
To pimp Sajt's Qwalk converter:
http://www.icculus.org/qshed/qwalk/ It's fucking great. If you want to make new monsters then it's invaluable. It's no longer necessary to rely on closed source software made about the same time as windows ME. It doesn't have a GUI but its not like its difficult to write a bat file.
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