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megido-rev.M:
Last updated on Oct8. lol
AceHigh:
By following my tradition of jumping over one windows OS, I wonder what win9 will be like. Let's see, I jumped from 95 over 98 to 98SE, then to XP over Me, then from XP right to win7. Anyway the future can change quickly and I bet in the future I will have Steam OS on my gaming rig and old trusty version of Windows for my CAD/CAM/EDA programs and JTAG debugging interface.
Hmm... Some other linux for the notebook that is used only as a media player/typewriter? Actually will probably go SteamOS on it too.
In other news this weekend I learned a few things about installing windows 7 on an EFI machine that was meant for win8. Luckily the manufacturer had all right drivers for it, so kudos to them. Too bad I did not think of writing down my Win8 serial key. After all it is gone forever after I did something as brutal as ripping out the laptop HDD, connecting it to my desktop and using a partition program to wipe everything. Recovery partition is for the noobs, so it all had to go. Still, could have given away that serial to those who want a legal win8.
JoonasTo:
I jumped from 3.1 to 95 then to 98 then XP(with simult 2000 on laptop because OH MY GOD THE SPEED) now finally to 8.1(albeit it's the secondary dual boot system aside of gentoo) with new laptop. Never had a good reason to go win7 with all the compatability issues to older gen games and speed issues. Haven't actually tried anything older in 8.1.
Naturally I still have older pcs with all of the said systems bootable. Got to be able to play Resident Evil 1-3 and FF VIII. For some reason we can get Dosbox to run 99% of old games properly but the windows ones are such a horrible mess. The japs just probably did such godawful work on the windows versions no one knows how they even work in the first place...
AceHigh:
DirectX11 was my reason for Win7, so I think it is a bit strange you didn't jump on it. Vista's DX10 was a bloody joke, because the DX10 itself added almost nothing to the graphics experience, nor did games use the technology well at that time. However Win7, DX11 with tessellation technology and games using it hit me all at once like a brick.
In fact the most painful transition for me was going from Win98SE to XP. Games were pretty much not compatible with XP at that time, so it was the biggest backwards compatibility issue of all OSes for me personally. On anything newer I could switch OS without worrying about games. The irony is that I can once again play many of the win98 games on newest OS thanks to GOG patching.
zherok:
--- Quote from: JoonasTo on November 03, 2013, 07:35:00 AM ---Got to be able to play Resident Evil 1-3 and FF VIII.
--- End quote ---
If your selection of older games is explicitly old PSX ports you ought to just emulate their console versions instead.
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