Enjoy Linux...I used to use it...its too complicated to catch on in the mass-market, but there's no reason you shouldn't enjoy it. Again if Linux were the standard PC operating system, game development would eventually disappear due to the lack of mass-market appeal. There would still be games...just not at the current level...probably more like the MAC level (if you took away Windows ports, and just included MAC-developed games).
Two more things: 1) I bought my latest system about a year ago. I haven't had to tweak a single thing and every game I have played has worked fine. 2) I RARELY crash. I'm using Windows Me. Going through normal use (Outlook, Word, Excel, FrontPage, various shareware utilities, and a bunch of games) I might have a crash once every couple of weeks. This is acceptable to me. However, I do shut down every night. I know from past experience that leaving your machine on all the time will cause more problems. Believe it or not, I'm NOT a Windows or MS fan (short for fanatic). I was a relatively late adopter and only then because that's where the great games were going. The truth is that I am not passionate about the operating system at all (as you are for Linux). I don't think about the operating system...that's the way I think it should be. It works, its easy, there are a ton of great games, I get my work done, and my folks can see their grandson. Linux may be more efficient, more robust, etc. etc....but the main benefit it brings as far as I'm concerned is competition for MS (at least in the techie community). The pressure will only help Windows get better. Hugh -----Original Message----- From: Pedro Quaresma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 10:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT Gates (was: [SWCollect] Rogue (was Killer Games (was Soccer Games (wasshock)))) >Well but that's the point of this string... you had to configure the crap >yourself! I've never had to do any such thing under windows! You never had to configure anything in Windows? Reduce a bit your sound card acceleration? Tweak around with your gfx card settings? In DOS I only had to create the multiple configurations once (I usually did XMS with HiMem, EMS with HiMem, Mixed with HiMem and clean XMS), and you were set for every computer game out there. >Try playing >Chaos Engine on a regular install of MSDOS, the game wants every possible >bit of memory it can have... spent ages trying to get it to run. That makes >windows more like the older systems, like Amiga and ST. Granted there will always be a level of complexity not existing in the old days due to the open hardware platform (especially when hardware manufacturers decide to make things slightly off standard... I have stories about my WinTV Go card that would make you cry). >But to suggest as you did in a previous post that >Linux makes plug and play easier, well yes, you will get your soundcard >recognized, but will your programs (aka games) recognize it? Sure. Haven't you ever played a game in Linux? I could surprise you with some data. Quake 2 in Linux is way faster than same machine running Quake 2 in Windows. Better yet, Quake 2 for Windows on a Windows emulator in Linux is faster than Quake 2 in Windows! Interesting, isn't it? >That's another >issue entirely, since there is no universally accepted api set. I have >never had to reset any of my system configurations (with the exception of 16 >bit or 32 bit color... hate when a game won't accept 32bit color... anyone >know what the problem is with that from a coding stand point?) No idea, but there are programs out there that let you "trick" the game into thinking you're using another screen mode. >for a windows >program... it just runs. And then it just crashes and you have no idea why ;) >On the issue of crashing... all I can say is that Dos machines didn't crash >as much because they weren't doing as much! Spec your windows system down >to the bare minimum and only run one program at a time, with no lan >connections or anything running, and believe me it won't crash either. But you can run Linux with everything running and all services on, and it won't crash. In the worst possible event, X will crash but not the OS, so you can just start X again. Due to bad programming, an error in a software in Windows usually crashes everything. Yes, you've noticed by now how much I love Linux. Pedro R. Quaresma [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] "So long, and thanks for all the fish" "Karl Kuras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 16/11/01 14:54 Solicita-se resposta a swcollect Para: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A/C: Ref: cc: Assunto: Re: OT Gates (was: [SWCollect] Rogue (was Killer Games (was Soccer Games (wasshock)))) From: "Pedro Quaresma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Memmaker was not optimal. I could get better results by configuring > config.sys & autoexec.bat myself, usually involving, IIRC, > shadowing/unshadowing memory and other interesting tricks. > I remember I used to get more than 600k base memory even with sound card > and CD-ROM drivers loaded. Later on, with RDosUmb, 610+ was possible even > with smartdrive loaded. Well but that's the point of this string... you had to configure the crap yourself! I've never had to do any such thing under windows! Try playing Chaos Engine on a regular install of MSDOS, the game wants every possible bit of memory it can have... spent ages trying to get it to run. That makes windows more like the older systems, like Amiga and ST. Granted there will always be a level of complexity not existing in the old days due to the open hardware platform (especially when hardware manufacturers decide to make things slightly off standard... I have stories about my WinTV Go card that would make you cry). But to suggest as you did in a previous post that Linux makes plug and play easier, well yes, you will get your soundcard recognized, but will your programs (aka games) recognize it? That's another issue entirely, since there is no universally accepted api set. I have never had to reset any of my system configurations (with the exception of 16 bit or 32 bit color... hate when a game won't accept 32bit color... anyone know what the problem is with that from a coding stand point?) for a windows program... it just runs. On the issue of crashing... all I can say is that Dos machines didn't crash as much because they weren't doing as much! Spec your windows system down to the bare minimum and only run one program at a time, with no lan connections or anything running, and believe me it won't crash either. 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