Are there games that are designed to be played using DOS that absolutely
cannot be played on most systems? How long ago was it said that DOS would
be no more? How about a paperless society with the advent of being able to
send files to one another? We now use more paper than ever before.
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From: "Jeremy Kaldobsky" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] disrespect for gamers: was Re: Lunimals version 2.5b
I understand that the issue is about users being able to play the game.
For many years, since Microsoft first stopped supporting VB6, people have
been saying that "any day" no one will be able to use software written with
it. Obviously with each passing year this gets closer to the truth, but we
have different opinions on the seriousness of this problem right now. As
I've said, when things change, I'll re-evaluate my position on the
languages I use.
You're probably right that the next generation of windows won't support
VB6 at all, but then again, you might be wrong. Before Vista released,
many people told me that it would be impossible to run VB6 applications on
it, and it didn't turn out that way. It's entirely possible that some
small change will allow VB6 apps to run on Windows X, just as it has
allowed Windows Vista and Windows 7 users to run them. If not, then
that's life and we will deal with the new situation. We are both playing
a guessing game, clearly some of you guess that all VB6 titles will be
lost forever, and I am guessing that probably won't be the case, or at
least I'm not so convinced that I'm willing to change how I'm currently
doing things.
Dennis, when you say people can't play the games, I assume you mean the
theoretical date when some new windows absolutely can't run VB6 games. As
things stand at the moment, I'm unaware of any version of windows (2000
and later) that can't run VB6 games.
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