Hi Charles, Well, as far as general compatibility I agree with you, but not the exact same criteria. Since many of those orders were taken back in 2004 and were paid to James North for games that worked with XP I'm certainly not going to screw people over who are using XP because I believe in giving people what they paid for.
However, in terms of criteria well obviously we have to be a bit flexible on that point. The games I got from James North were written in Visual Basic 6, used DirectX 8, and both technologies are essentially dead-ends in terms of long term support. There is no way I intend to base new releases on those technologies or exact criteria although I am willing to compromise on general XP support itself for fairness sake. However, those games have been rewritten from scratch in C++, have DirectX 8 support for XP compatibility,, but at some point I intend to replace various components in Raceway and MOTA with newer ones in order to be better forward compatible with Vista and beyond. Those updates will not be available to XP users because the OS is simply too old, and I guess people will have to be satisfied with the initial releases for XP. Cheers! On 9/12/13, Charles Rivard <[email protected]> wrote: > Sure, if you show me the money. (grin) > > On another question you asked about those who preordered games that you are > > now working on, here's a thought: As for what OS should be used, I think > the answer should be this: What were the criteria needed to run the games > at the time of purchase? Those same criteria should still be used. That > would be right, because we knew what we needed to run the game when we > bought the game. Those who have an OS that won't allow those games to be > run would be those who would either have to pay for game upgrades. If a > game needs Windows Xp to run, and you know that before buying the game, it's > > not the developer's fault if it doesn't run on your OS. > > --- > Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
