Hi Thomas and all. Windows 98 came with DirectX 6 or 7 as you say, however to clarify you could install up to DirectX 9 when I quit running 98.
Best regards, Tom At 11:53 PM 9/14/2006 -0400, Thomas Ward wrote: >Hi Phil, >A slight correction you said Windows 98 didn't have DirectX. Actually, >it did. I believe it was DirectX 6 or 7. However, Windows 95, the early >versions, did not have DirectX. Everyone had to access the sound card >via com audio which wasn't all that great. >Anyway, live action ST game does seam to be the better choice seeing as >we have the power to do so, and seeing how well STFC came out a live >action would be much more the game. >One thing we would have to think about is do we want it to be like >Lonewolf where you have 15 20 independant missions or do we want 15 >missions in a row like GTC with the option to jump to a specific mission. > >Phil Vlasak wrote: > > Hi Thomas, > > Great idea, a live action star trek game! > > You could pick your mission from a list then pick what ship you are > > controlling. > > When David did Star Trek originally with PCS in DOS we did not know if > blind > > people could handle so much information in a live action game, plus DOS > had > > the limitation of being only able to play one sound at a time. > > He then added a sound playing module inside ST and LW that could play > more > > than one sound but not everybody could use it for lack of memory. > > I think when he made the conversion to Windows, ST was his first one so he > > did not take full advantage of the multiple sounds feature of windows. > > Plus Windows 98 did not have directX so the sounds had to be played > > differently. Today such a project would not be so difficult to write or to > > play. > > You should go where no game company has gone before! > > smiles, > > Phil > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] >To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make >any subscription changes via the web. -- "First come smiles, then lies, last is gunfire. " Roland Deschain of Gilead _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
