Hi Tom.
to be honest I don't agree with you about microsoft simply because of the
money involved. on xp I can run programs for dos written in qbasic, C and
goodness knows what from 20 years ago. That is a huge corpus of material. Up
to xp microsoft had a care for all that legacy support which is why I can
download copies of even something like the dos version of hunt the wumpus
from 1978 and run it.
You could write a program in basic and it'd be fine on xp today, just as was
the original plan for Eamon deluxe.
With post xp windows however microsoft are following a model of upgrade or
else to both devs and users alike, and no, I don't accept the arguement
that microsoft couldn't include this support indeed the fact that they've
seen the light with respect to vb6 shows that they could and were just
being money grubbing with their phase out, (you yourself admit the price for
all the vb net stuff).
With games, well it's not just the case of running or not running so much as
capabilities. A developer like Jim kitchin who has worked in vb6 for years,
well what bennifits are there to him to running vb net other than the extra
harrassment caused by microsoft and the need to buy new vb net tools. Also,
would Jim Kitchin's games be any better for using vb net or another
programming language than using vb 6? ---- I don't kow, not being a
programmer but that is also a question which needs answering.
Ultimately it comes down as I said to bennifits. Whichever way you cut the
cookie upgrading is a hassle, and a hassle which microsoft have only made
worse with their buggered up interface and lack of compatibility, a fact
which I'm glad to see they are at least recognizing with their including of
vb6 support (I've heard lots of stories of things not working on windows 8
so it's good that microsoft are finally seeing some sense at least).
To your stand off question well to be honest as I said if microsoft had done
a better job with windows 7 we wouldn't be having this conversation. Maybe
windows 8, maybe windows 9, maybe a future version will be better. I'm
confident enough myself that something better than xp will! come along in
the future which will make myself and others change, ---- but until then
well if people keep using xp and developers keep writing for it, what is so
wrong with that?
it's like laser disks and dvds. Back in the mid 1990's, I knew someone who
had bought a new laser disk system. He claimed the video and sound were
better, and all the technical bits were there and asked why I and other
still used video.
We said we used video becuase there were still more good films on video to
watch than laserdisk, even though laserdisk was technically a better
format.
Of course 10 or so years later, and dvd replaced video, and myself and
everyone else got to change our videos for dvds because there are now much
better and cheaper films available on dvd than video, and most things that
were originally video have been ported to dvd, ---- and laserdisk has fallen
by the way side, however had we migrated to laserdisk just because it was
technically better we'd have not been any better off now.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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