I recently discovered that there has been some activity in the gaming applications in J.
It is well worth an effort to see if they can replace old habits and also having a go at writing J games to replace old ms-dos games. 2010/1/4 Alex Rufon <[email protected]>: > Hi David, > > Thanks for the heads up on the Win7_64 for gaming. My wife already approved > the upgrade cost for our WindowsXP Pro 32 to Windows 7 64bit. Since its our > home/desktop pc ... its mostly used for gaming, particularly with Steam. > > Just wondering, have you tried playing under Windows XP mode VM? > > Alex > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of David Mitchell > Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 9:15 PM > To: Chat forum > Subject: Re: [Jchat] What to choose 64 or 32? > > I found that most of the games I had ran fine on Vista32, but would not run on > Win7_64. Just about all of the non-game software I had ran fine on both. I > installed both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of VirtualDub on Win7_64 and > found > that the compression codecs that were available were different on each > version. > I finally used the 32 bit version because of the codec and filter options > that > were not supported in the 64 bit version. > > I have used the WIN7Pro Windows XP Mode VM to support an old 32 bit program I > depend on (Ecco). Ecco would not work on Win7_64. I also used it to support > an > ancient USB Canon scanner that had no 64 bit drivers. Both worked fine in > the VM. > > -- > David Mitchell > > On 1/2/2010 19:34, Björn Helgason wrote: >> I guess I begin to update some of the Linux machines to 64 bit >> gradually and see if I might possibly switch other operating systems >> to VMware running under Linux. >> >> I have one Vista machine I got cheap and it is actually the best >> Windows machine I have had. >> >> Mind you I only use it (small handy laptop) for internet because none >> of my old XP applications (outside of J that is) run on it. >> So I do need to keep a few old XP machines for old games etc. >> >> 2010/1/2 Michael Dykman<[email protected]>: >>> Here in Toronto, it has been a couple of years since one could even >>> source a 32-bit x86, if shopping for new. While I jumped on the >>> 64-bit operating systems for server work, as a user of linux on my >>> personal desktop, I hesitated on installing the 64-bit builds for my >>> own computer until the multimedia codecs caught up, but I stopped >>> worrying about that a couple of years ago. >>> >>> - michael dykman >>> >>> On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 12:37 PM, DIETER ENSSLEN<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> definitely 64 bit, no other logical choice >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> - michael dykman >>> - [email protected] >>> >>> May the Source be with you. >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>> >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fornustekkum II 781 Hornafirði Po Box 127,801 Selfoss , t-póst: [email protected] gsm: +3546985532 sími: +3544781286 http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
