3.4 RELEASE???

[BigDuke66]

Sure but these kind of games are maybe the only good ones that still run on such old machines, so it's understandable why it is still supported.

[berto]

ORIGINAL: BigDuke66

Sure but these kind of games are maybe the only good ones that still run on such old machines, so it's understandable why it is still supported.

+1

Over the Christmas break, I set up a "retro" gaming machine on some older hardware running Windows XP. (In the past, I've done the same on a Windows ME box.) I was delighted to see that, as expected, all of my patched/upgraded old classics, TOAW included, continue to run just fine on the retro box.

My next projects will be (a) set up a retro gaming virtualized Windows XP running on Linux, and (b) get my older games to run under Linux WINE.

Why go to all this trouble? I want to insure myself against hardware failure and/or OS obsolescence and, as much as possible, preserve my precious--and expensive!--retro gaming collection far into the future.

I'd be grateful if the devs take the time to support older Windows versions. If it's dead, it's dead. But please make a reasonable attempt to keep the patient alive.

[E]

As a hard-core retro gamer, I also agree that the Windoze 98'ers shouldn't just be dumped as the one poster suggest.

[eggmansdaddy]

I don't know if this makes a hill of beans or not, but what I have done with older games coded for windows 95 or 98 is right click on the setup or installer .EXE file and under properties I tell 2000, XP or 7 to run the program as a win 95 or win 98 program. i then do the same thing to the game executable. seems to work okay for me. Just a wild shot in the dark, but I've run Win 95 and/or win 98 on the above 3 more modern Windows versions on multiple platforms and it seems to work just fine.

Eggmansdaddy