actually, your info is rong here. the rybons are beeing removed, because
they have taken on the feedback that they aren't liked.
dallas
On 12/12/2011 22:04, dark wrote:
Hi Tom.
I do generally appreciate the point that better applications for doing
tasks like brousing the internet or text editing exist, -----
certainly I wouldn't go back to using the old word perfect 4 which i
learnt typing on as a teenager.
However with microsoft it seems quite often they just dump things on
people with no chance to change and expect the general public to just
go along with it.
Take ribbon controls. Back after the change from 95 to xp there was a
classic mode, which made elements of the xp ui resemble earlier
versions of windows. Do we see this in windows 7 or 8? heck no!
Many fully sighted users hate ribbons and the windows arrow, finding
them needlessly confusing, yet does microsoft care? ---- no!
As far as compatibility goes, the case for games seems very different
from the case for other software. Each game is to a lesser or greater
extent unique, indeed each game may be considdered an art form to the
extent that it is! unique.
Companies like Nintendo have recognized this, which is why there is a
wii virtual console etc. Microsoft however don't seem to give a dam,
despite the fact that windows has probably the largest proportion of
independent game developers for any operating system.
If including dependencies in windows isn't possible, why couldn't
microsoft create a package, something like a windows orientated dosbox
with 16 bit dependencies and vb registrations, expressly for running
older games on newer windows.
microsoft however don't care about either the players of indi produced
games, or the various indi developers who've worked on them, which is
why an open source alternative like dosbox was needed. However this
wouldn't be necessary if microsoft gave a dam, but just like with the
ribbon controls, microsoft just seem to expect people to upgrade
because something is newer.
i'm afraid for myself, ---- and indeed for probably a lot of other
computer users, my Pc is of value only based upon what I can do with
it, not based upon whether it has the latest technology or flashy
displays, ----- indeed I've never bothered upgrading my microsoft
word, sinse ms word 2007 which this machine comes with serves me
perfectly well.
One of those things is play old games.
Were my snes to actually break, there would be an alternative, namely
buying a wii (though sadly it wouldn't work well for me due to access
to the silly wii mote menues), however were my xp machine to break,
and were vb support dropped, i'd be saying goodbye to lots of games.
I suppose eventually some open source alternative to vb support will
appear, maybe a virtual machine option, but how useable that would be
for the average skilled user, and how accessible it would be I don't
know. Dosbox is afterall completely inaccessible, and the only dosbox
applications I have are ones that have been configured to run as
windows programs like the Prince of persia totalpack.
Already the Eamon games are unplayable on windows 7 machines without
running an apple emulator, which means they are inaccessible as well,
I wonder how long it will be before all the games we have now that use
vb will go the same way.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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