Re: [Audyssey] from an end user - Re: disrespect for gamers: was Re: Lunimals version 2.5b

2011-06-11 Thread Christopher Bartlett
Thomas, rather than struggling with an emulator, why not simply use a virtual machine? I recall that VM solutions exist that are accessible on the mac, but I don't know if there are accessible solutions under Linux. Chris Bartlett --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you

Re: [Audyssey] from an end user - Re: disrespect for gamers: was Re: Lunimals version 2.5b

2011-06-10 Thread Trouble
There is some truth there to your words. However, those languages that they use have become object orientated. See VB6 became vb.net, and what it takes to run the old was dropped. Even the newer distros of linix can only be ran on the newer computers. You use to be able to run on any comp, but

Re: [Audyssey] from an end user - Re: disrespect for gamers: was Re: Lunimals version 2.5b

2011-06-10 Thread Willem Venter
Hi Charles. What you say is partially correct. However in theory it is more complecated. Programmers use libraries, which are basicly segments of a program, like the direct x dll's windows 7 users have to copy over from an xp machine. If these libraries are not maintained, they simply stop working

Re: [Audyssey] from an end user - Re: disrespect for gamers: was Re: Lunimals version 2.5b

2011-06-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, Smile. You have definitely raised several good points, and let me say that programmers have asked the same types of questions and have designed a few solutions for the problem. These days a majority of software is moving towardslanguages like C# .Net, Java, and Python precisely

[Audyssey] from an end user - Re: disrespect for gamers: was Re: Lunimals version 2.5b

2011-06-09 Thread Charles Rivard
I might get some geeky answers to this, and I might not. Anyway, this whole issue about what programming language should or should not be used, and why or why not, is interesting to me, but might not be to others. What it boils down to, to me, is this: A program, or in this case a computer