What games do you have in mind? 2010/1/4 Björn Helgason <[email protected]>
> 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 > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
