DOS Games Discussion

AdamN · Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 9:53 am Post subject:

not sure how old the one I have ordered is, but it will have XP SP2 on it, but if it doesn't work they will contact me and state that I need to have Vista (which they will charge the same price) only problem though is I won't be able to open the Documents on the Desktop PC cause I'm running Office 2003.

dosraider · Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 12:10 pm Post subject:

Not 'so' new laptop then, older model.

FYI:
Office 2003 works in Vista, that is if you have the official one and can update it.
Some have a kind of a problem with the older outlook, depends more how the network is set up. But outlook works, only asks everytime for the network password.
If they deliver the laptop with office for Vista (2007), it is able to import the 2003 documents. Think about it, many companies still have XP and Vista mixed up in their offices.
I never had problems to open-edit from 2003->2007 or from 2007->2003.

And if your office is not legal simply go on OpenOffice2. That's freeware.
That's what I use on my home compy. And it can work with the MS Office files.
It even can make *.PDF files.

RetroGoth · Member Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 19

I don't like it at all! I even tried downgrading my vista laptop but alas it wasn't compatible with XP....so I had to go back to Vista.

Wally*Won_Kenobie · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 6:21 pm Post subject:

Why wasn't it compatible with XP?

You need all the drivers for it to be compatible with XP

dosraider · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 7:27 pm Post subject:

Some of the newer chipsets need specific drivers, you need to download them to be able to install XP.
Mainly -but not only- SATA stuff.
And not to mention the new audio onboard chips, damn can't remember the name right now, they don't work very good with XP.

To conclude: new 'up to date' hardware: Vista.
And it's faster on dual cores anyway, useless to buy a dual core to run XP.

Evolution it's called.
And if you don't like the Vista look, it still has the win classic desktop.
All the useless eye candy and bloathware is killed in 2 minutes work.
Good riddens anyway.

Oh yeah, Vista SP1 is out. (Not for all languages).
I wonder what they gonna screw up this time. LOLZ.

Of course you always can buy a Mac. Suspicious

Zalensia · Member Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 22 Location: England

Vista has caused huge problems at Uni. We have been working on speech recognition software. Vista + this s/w = HUGE disaster.
It has been such a mess the course team have had to re-write assignments for vista users because the s/w won't work properly.

The Uni claims they tested the s/w and it worked fine last year. I dunno how much to believe. But I have heard as various updates were released for Vista it messed up things it didn't previously effect (e.g. COD4)

dosraider · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:16 am Post subject:

Most problems are PISBKAC ones, people expect Vista to behave as Xp, but it ain't XP. Vista is finally protecting itself, much more then XP.

For those who don't know:
PISBKAC = Probem Is Situated Between Keyboard And Chair.
Shit-Eating Grin

rspk4 · Newbie Joined: 08 Apr 2008 Posts: 1

I hate Vista. I had to make new versions of my programs just to make them work with Vista...

I have Ubuntu now and it's so much better Shit-Eating Grin

Gamer_V · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 2:42 pm Post subject:

dosraider · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 4:11 pm Post subject:

Yeah, and you don't have to rewrite your progs to run them in Ubuntu ...
Confuzzled

Mr. Worm · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:40 pm Post subject:

Programs actually run decently under Wine on my Ubuntu laptop.

dosraider · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:24 pm Post subject:

If he installs Ubuntu with the only purpose to emulate windows to run his progs ....LOLZ... better simply install XP instead.

(Not that I don't like Ubuntu.)