Subject: Re: [stella] the B. Watson's problem... From: "John Saeger" <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 23:27:57 -0700 |
I heard from somebody running z26 under XP and they said they got some noise to come out. But I wouldn't call it working. I wish I could scuttle DOS. I wish it was a commercial program so I could just hire somebody to do the work. Oh well. My turn to whine. ;-) John Glenn Saunders wrote: > Windows XP is going to have better DOS compatibility through emulation > which should (in theory) fix all these problems. > > I read a preview where they were running old 16-bit DOS games under > XP. It's not like 98. It's still the full NT kernel. The DOS stuff is > running through some kind of protected-memory emulation layer, whereas NT > and 2000 just fail to run the 16-bit code at all. > > I know it's a leap, but I do wish emulation authors scuttle DOS and go for > Win32/DirectX. The rest of the game industry has. It's about time to move > ahead. Yeah, this coming from an Atari 2600 fan, a machine that doesn't > even have an OS ROM... - Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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