Comments on: Disc-go 2000

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:18:02 +0000

Sticklebrick: Thanks, but boo! I SEEK THE GREAT DAVE JONES CONJUNCTION.

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:38:23 +0000

“So why is it any different someone trying to run a title on an unsupported OS?”

Because the games I mentioned in the article all run fine under Windows 2000. From the perspective of a typical DirectX 9 app, the two systems are identical. It’s not the same situation as trying to run games on below-spec hardware. At all.

The point of the article wasn’t to demand that developers and publishers support a now commercially insignificant OS, just to politely ask that they don’t act like jerks to the few people who do still use Win2k (claiming their games are fundamentally incompatible when there are just minor API glitches, OS checks in installers, etc.).

By: Adam Hepton

Adam Hepton — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:25:58 +0000

If somebody tried running a current title on a 486, we’d tell them that they need a current processor to run the game. If somebody tried running a current title with a Voodoo graphics accelerator, we’d tell them you need a current graphics card.

So why is it any different someone trying to run a title on an unsupported OS?

I’m not necessarily saying developers/publishers shouldn’t support Win2k, but I am saying that they don’t claim to support it, either.

By: Sticklebrick

Sticklebrick — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:12:14 +0000

Sadly no, it’s not the same David Jones. I remember reading in Retrogamer a few months back that after Stormbringer, he he largely vanished from the games industry, but works in some other field of computing.

Mad props to both tho yo.

By: SCG

SCG — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:40:19 +0000

That’s a bit much, Adam. It’s not like the difference between 2000 and XP is even as great as, say, XP and Vista.

The one that really got me was C&C: The First Decade, in which the updated C&C and Red Alert required XP but the other, later games worked fine on 2K. Still, everything else about the bundle smacked of typical EA laziness, so why not fuck off the 2K users as well, eh.

*now has XP and was able to play Company of Heroes, thank you very much*

By: Adam Hepton

Adam Hepton — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:12:00 +0000

I’m going off on a one-man crusade to complain that all my Wii games don’t work on my Commodore 64 now.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:46:34 +0000

My favouritest Magic Knight game was Knight Tyme.

(One day I’ll write about the weirdo pre-Sierra British Graphic Adventures, and give Magic Knight its due.)

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:44:08 +0000

“but he’s got a really cute picture of Spec-chum hero Magic Knight as his website’s icon so we’ll forgive him.”

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:37:26 +0000

PEGGLE EXTREME TERRITORY!

(Fixing!)

By: Turin Turambar

Turin Turambar — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:36:35 +0000

Extreme Territory? :P