Masters of Orion II

Atrocities · #1 August 7th, 2009, 11:59 PM

I sincerely hope that windows 7 is backwards computable. There are so many good games, applications, and software out there that don't run on Vista that shouldn't be tossed into the waste bin because MicroSoft is too willfully ignorant of our peoples needs.

Santiago · #2 August 8th, 2009, 08:24 AM

Windows 7 is not really directly backwards compatibile. Apparently it will use virtualization to hopefully accomplish compatibilty. It will probably work with more mainstream programs than ones that aren't but I think it will be hit or miss personally. Time will tell.

Windows 7 is a bit more than just a Vista fix. But MS isn't really ignorant of needs but it becomes a tradeoff. How much windows bloat to be able to run most old software while trying to keep the pc efficient and fast. Or just start over.

It's like those stupid gum commercials where the person is chewing the same piece of gum forever. The gum company sales drop thru the floor and they resort to ambushing the gumchewers to get their gum back and force the person to buy a new piece. While to an extent this is funny, it is also very very true. If you don't keep up with your competitors and keep selling new items for lower cost, then you're out of business. True for MS and ANY other company out there. It's the world we live in.

Xrati · #3 August 8th, 2009, 10:49 AM

You mean to tell me that Micro$oft

can't come up with an emulation program to run within Win 7, to get old games running.

Sooooooooo DosBox will be the only method to run older programs... I wish the people over at DosBox could come up with an OS, I'd buy it!

Arralen · #4 August 9th, 2009, 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Xrati

I wish the people over at DosBox could come up with an OS, I'd buy it!

Not the same people, but they're working together with the WINE developers, and there might be some connections to DOSBox (but I haven't checked..):

ReactOS - a free, modern operating system based on the design of Windows® XP/2003. Written completely from scratch, it aims to follow the Windows® architecture designed by Microsoft from the hardware level right through to the application level. This is not a Linux based system, and shares none of the unix architecture.

If you're looking for a "real" DOS, you might want to check out :
FreeDOS - a free DOS-compatible operating system for IBM-PC compatible systems. FreeDOS is made of up many different, separate programs that act as "packages" to the overall FreeDOS Project.