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Post by roxas on Jan 4, 2008 6:18:30 GMT -5
Hello folks!
My grandfather got a new computer (lol early last year) and he has Vista!
I tried to boot up Project64k on his computer but it crashed every time it did so!
On Wikipedia is says something about this....
What should I do?
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Post by Truth Unknown on Jan 4, 2008 8:46:14 GMT -5
I would try what Wikipedia mentioned: "However, a Vista-compatible Nintendo 64 netplay emulator, Mupen64K, is available. It is possible to run the program on vista however if the user renames the Direct3D 8 plugin to the filename of the Direct3D 7." So either someone fixes Project64k, those two options are your best bet.
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Post by patrickp on Jan 4, 2008 11:04:22 GMT -5
Saw a lovely quote about Vista the other day: Any opinions expressed are entirely those of the original author - not! Sorry, couldn't resist that one - but I'm so glad I'm a Linux user...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2008 15:19:05 GMT -5
I'm so glad I'm XP user...
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Post by westicles on Jan 17, 2008 12:51:23 GMT -5
You know what sucks? My laptop came with Vista.
You know what REALLY sucks? My laptop has no drivers for XP.
You know what REALLY REALLY sucks? I'm inept at programming system drivers.
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Post by patrickp on Jan 17, 2008 14:33:43 GMT -5
Tried Ubuntu, westicles? Gutsy is getting very good at getting all sorts of hardware working now. If you've got much hard drive space (I guess you'd have to if you're running Vista) you can always dual boot, as well. If you install Windows first, then Ubuntu, the Ubuntu install will sort dual booting for you.
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Post by westicles on Jan 17, 2008 14:44:00 GMT -5
Man, I haven't had Linux installed since the days of Red Hat and early Slackware. Red Hat being a text-based operating system made web browsing hilarious. I'll check Ubuntu out, though. Thanks for the heads up! Anything is better than Vista. I will say that it is running a little better now that I switched to the Windows Classic theme and got rid of all the semi-opaque toolbars and other look-goods. That senseless crap is just begging for RAM/GPU resources. Of course, it doesn't take much to impress me with an OS's GUI. I'm still somewhat partial to Win3.1/DOS. haha!
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Post by patrickp on Jan 17, 2008 15:22:46 GMT -5
Gutsy also includes Compiz, a window manager that does much the same sort of stuff Aero does - I've played about with it on another partition, but, as you say, westicles, stuff like that really isn't worth it for the resources it uses. Maybe if I had a super-duper high-end machine - dream on...
But Compiz and applications like it have actually been available for Linux for some time now - it's just that Gutsy is the first Ubuntu distribution to have it enabled by default.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2008 16:58:22 GMT -5
Speaking of themes, it's a shame that XP doesn't have the Hot Dog Stand theme in it.
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Post by westicles on Jan 20, 2008 23:34:09 GMT -5
I miss 3.1..
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Post by Gamesoul Master on Jan 21, 2008 4:12:24 GMT -5
Wow... 3.1. I haven't seen it in years. My experience with Windows actually started out on Win95, which was on the first computer I ever owned, given to me by my 6th grade science teacher. For the three years in middle school (6th-8th grade), I worked with him on computers, as he collected computers and fixed them up. He had a bigger collection than the school's computer lab! When I moved on to high school, he gave me the last computer we fixed up as a parting/thanks gift. Win95 was such a pain... when I got my hands on Win98SE, I was so happy. Win98 ran so much nicer for me, and I learned how to do just about everything with it through trial-and-error. Only thing was that I had to reformat my computer at least once a year and reinstall it (BSOD was my worst enemy during those days).
Makes me remember back to the days of the Apple II computers we had in elementary school. Back when I never even *heard* of Windows, and the two different sized floppy drives were the only portable media we had ever heard of. I can still hear the starting music of ClarisWorks. Rather odd that I can even remember the name (at least I *think* I am... I guess I'll find out if any of you end up correcting me on it... LOL), considering I've never heard anybody utter a word about the program since I last used it about 14 years ago. It was our word processing program, as I recall. It had a few fonts that I really liked (and don't recall seeing ever since), like the New York font. Just thinking about it, I think I should check my Office XP installation and see if it has the New York font... XD.
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Post by patrickp on Jan 21, 2008 13:43:09 GMT -5
Yes, my first PC ran on W95, too, GM - probably not such a bad thing, since it was a severely handicapped machine... Then I got something a bit better and went with W98SE, like you. That really wasn't such a bad OS - well, I still have it installed on a machine that's dual-booting Gutsy.
But I used 3.1 about that time, too, at work (Social Services. Social work people are about the least tech-savvy I've ever come across. I remember showing a social worker how to use a fax - she was really surprised when the paper came out of the other side!) - this included AIR Word run in DOS.
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Post by Ultima on Jan 21, 2008 15:22:19 GMT -5
lol my first PC was a DOS system from Emerson somewhere in the early 90's. It was annoying to use, but I remember messing with (losing to) some chess program, and playing Winter Games on it ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2008 8:49:25 GMT -5
My first PC was 286 and it had some version of DOS and Windows 3.11. I remember playing Civilization and Wolfenstein 3D with it. Or it could have been the 386 that I got after that. Good times regardless!
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