xp may have dropped down in price, but the computer itself, plus legal copies of screenreaders, blah blah blah, you know the trick, you'd be spending more than £2500 over here, which, as an 18-year-old college student in the uk, i don't even get in a year.
regards, damien ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <gamers@audyssey.org>; "USA Games List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 2:22 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Future USA Games product designs. > Hello Tom. I would vote for the faster game release. Meaning, I would > suggest you stick to what you have already rather than restarting the > code. The reason I say this is not to leave out those users who have > problems, but rather thinking of those users who have been waiting a > while for the games to come out. > > Perhaps in a later version you could rewrite the games, but I would > guess that most users who have been waiting already as it is would > rather see the games sooner than later. > > I realize of course that if you finish the games now that a rewrite for > a future version would be a lot more work so of course that is something > to consider. Thing is, people who run old computers like win 95/98/me > are behind the times. When other companies, and I don't mean accessible > ones, make new games, they will be making them for the current operating > systems. This is nothing personal, but rather, life. > > I tell anyone who still uses win 9x that although it might cost some > money to upgrade, it's just a fact that their system is old and if > he/she wants to play the latest games or run the latest applications, > one needs a newer computer and a newer operating system. > > What I would suggest is to perhaps pick a release date of DirectX and > .net and stick with that for the game release. Let's say for example, if > a DirectX version comes out February 1 2007 this year, use that and even > if the game is not ready until November this year, make it so the game > will work with that version and above. This gives people a long time to > make sure they have the files they need to run the games. > > Again, let me be clear to anyone reading this. I'm not saying if you are > running an old computer and operating system, that it's just too bad. > I'm simply saying that reality here is that Windows 9x is out and > windows 2k/xp/vista is in. I would bet that most everyone is running at > least 2k or xp. And really, being honest here, an XP operating system > has dropped in price over the last year or so, and will continue to drop > with Vista coming out. > > All the best. > > -- > Raul A. Gallegos ... IliwSsmc > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org > 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. > > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org 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.
