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Tanks
Posts: 246/596		 CRAP! I forgot about multi booting... I erased vista from my laptop to go back to XP, but that screwed it all up. I put it back to vista to now have no sound, and the sound driver won't reinstall. DANG!
FreeDOS +
Posts: 895/1312		 You should use a multiboot loader like GRUB. Have a special Linux entry, and then just an entry to whichever Windows partition is used to boot either WinXP or WinVista, which is operated by boot.ini (which is still used, dunno what you're talking about)
BooUrns
Posts: 7/450		 A screenshot of Acmlm on Vista build 5536.

By the way, has anyone tried multi-booting Vista + XP + Any version of Linux? I have not tried this but I don't know how it will work with Vista's boot manager because boot.ini is no longer used.
SuperLuigi64
Posts: 249/281		 I don't care if its bad, I just want it so I can get all of these drivers (which some of them should not be running) off my computer (Vista hopefully supports all of them *prays*)
Tanks
Posts: 230/596		 I never had chips challenger on my computer but I always loved it on my Grandmas computer. I hted that level with all the flames though. Now that I think about it my grandma had Mario is Missing, the PC port. I think I have the disk, should i keep it or sell it on ebay.
Ailure
Posts: 1870/2602		 Which makes me wonder why Microsoft dropped the entermint packs. Some of them were actually quite good and if they offered them at a good price. I really had pleasant memories with the Chip Challange's game, while it's technically a port (or remake, since it's not the same) it's probably the best game Microsoft have ported.
Tanks
Posts: 228/596
Originally posted by FreeDOS +
Inkball reminds me of those old Windows 3.1 games, eh

Oh, and some of you might have guessed my impression: Based on previous Windows releases alone, I have no faith for Windows Vista at all.


All I can remember from then is skiing, golfing, and that really fun mouse game where you have to stay away from the cats. The best parts in Skiing were when you A. ran over a dog and made it piss in the snow or B. getting eaten by the snow monster thing.
FreeDOS +
Posts: 855/1312		 Inkball reminds me of those old Windows 3.1 games, eh

Oh, and some of you might have guessed my impression: Based on previous Windows releases alone, I have no faith for Windows Vista at all.
Tanks
Posts: 227/596
Originally posted by HyperHacker
I imagine it has some sort of coding to prevent it running on older versions. But expect many people to write open-source clones soon enough.


I think it might be possible through future emulation or if I can find the right .dll file I think I can get it to work. The moment I played Inkball i was like, I can smell a good flash game brewin'.
HyperHacker
Posts: 3408/5072		 I imagine it has some sort of coding to prevent it running on older versions. But expect many people to write open-source clones soon enough.
Tanks
Posts: 213/596		 Presenting... INKBALL! The greatest game that looks like it should be on a PDA and not on vista! But I don't really care cause its fun!





The object of the game is to draw out lines to knock the colored balls into there respective holes. Put a different colored ball into a different colored hole and you've lost!

I wish this game was available for XP users. I tried to extract the vista ISO to find the game but I couldn't find anything. Anyone who thinks they can do it should try and get the game. It would be great to be ale to pla it on XP,then I can erase vista from my laptop.
paulguy
Posts: 54/71		 I'll probably end up staying with XP for a while. I'f I need to change for whatever reason, I will. By then there should be enough tweaks and shit to make it not suck ass and rip out much of the DRM crap. HOPEFULLY I can get classic windows style because Aero Glass is uuuuuuugly. Also, by then I can just run my old Win98 games in an emulator.
Black Lord +
Posts: 195/273		 Inkball is the only good thing coming out of Vista as of this moment.
Tanks
Posts: 210/596
Originally posted by HyperHacker
Originally posted by Tanks
I don't know how to tell this to you but even with my ATI graphics card... it can't run movie maker.

I've found the problem with Movie Maker isn't that it's hard on the system... just that it's potentially the buggiest program Microsoft has ever made, crashing literally 80% of the time I try to save and at other random intervals. (And of course only supporting WMV.)


This is the new one. Think a plie of crap now covered with more crap. This movie maker probably supports the 3D spinning windows or something. But any way, it won't run and I'm switching back to XP soon though I'm a little addicted to the game ink ball. I'll post some screens of it just for the hell of it. It's really fun!
HyperHacker
Posts: 3382/5072
Originally posted by Tanks
I don't know how to tell this to you but even with my ATI graphics card... it can't run movie maker.

I've found the problem with Movie Maker isn't that it's hard on the system... just that it's potentially the buggiest program Microsoft has ever made, crashing literally 80% of the time I try to save and at other random intervals. (And of course only supporting WMV.)
Sukasa
Posts: 1733/2068		 *Sukasa wields his copy of win98SE*

Yeah, XP would likely get you by. Heck, Win98SE worked when I was running stuff designed primarily for modern computers (Soundblaster Live! 24-bit), and I still use it. Considering Xp's age, it'll likely be supported by microsoft for a good long time, so no need to upgrade (apparently, no want either )
Black Lord +
Posts: 192/273
Originally posted by l0rca
Originally posted by Black Lord +
If they release anything similar to what RC1 is like, I'm not touching it with a pole spanning from Nebraska to China, I'll just leave one partition with XP Pro, and the rest with various linux distros.


Oh, do tell what.


What linux distros I run???

Ubuntu
SuSE
Fedora
Whatever one I'm testing out at the moment (happens to be Arch Linux)

if that's not what you were asking for... then I don't know what you could be asking for, unless you wanted to know what RC1 is like, in which case, I'll tell you it's a resource hog and a piece of crap of an OS. Windows XP is resource intensive enough the way it is. Not that it matters. And I thought maybe the 64-bit support would come around... but I don't see that happening anytime soon (although it will probably come around for Windows first), my Athlon 64 is crying because he is not used to his full potential.
l0rca
Posts: 32/70
Originally posted by Black Lord +
If they release anything similar to what RC1 is like, I'm not touching it with a pole spanning from Nebraska to China, I'll just leave one partition with XP Pro, and the rest with various linux distros.


Oh, do tell what.
Tanks
Posts: 207/596
Originally posted by SuperLuigi64
I blow the requirements out of the water, even for Ultimate. Whether it is as much as Wikipedia is saying is differant. I like the way it looks, which could have been done on XP Media Center. Some of the stuff in Vista is stupid, steaming heaps of stuff thats been recycled from XP, like Movie Maker (by God, if I get a completly new OS and it still doesn't work, screw movies).


Your gonna' be really pissed... I don't know how to tell this to you but even with my ATI graphics card... it can't run movie maker. Lets all just live with XP and then when our computers die, buy a computer made for vista, not just vista compatible cause that means they can just get by and not be able to run vista at full performance.
Black Lord +
Posts: 191/273		 If they release anything similar to what RC1 is like, I'm not touching it with a pole spanning from Nebraska to China, I'll just leave one partition with XP Pro, and the rest with various linux distros.
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