The silver lining with windows Longhorn

[John]

Just wondering by the time all 3 parts of this game comes out there could be the new windows Longhorn.
Will you update or make a patch for people that have windows Longhorn.

John

[franzrogar]

Not to offend to who uses Windows.

When someone install Windows Vista, I promise you, you'll format the HD and return to XP, NT or 9x; for sure (too many dissadvantages, you'll know).

And answering your question: the NT/9x API is still working so you can play the game without any *fear* (except the Windows one )

[Storm]

When someone install Windows Vista, I promise you, you'll format the HD and return to XP, NT or 9x; for sure (too many dissadvantages, you'll know).

Are you speaking from personal experience?

[TribeHasSpoken]

I'm planning on getting a new hard drive next week and creating two partitions, one with XP one with Me. So many great games like the You Don't Know Jack series don't work on XP

[Yonkey]

As franzrogar mentioned, as long as Windows Vista is able to run WinXP programs (which it most likely will), it should support the game as well.

[GunHoMac]

Just so everyone knows...it's Vista not Longhorn.  Vista will be just fine; they didn't incorporate reverse compatibility features into XP simply to forget about them.  The pre-test stage of Vista includes reverse-compatible options as well, except they're working out various tweaks to make them actually work. 

They will also probably be instituting add-on features that will enable you to customize the reverse engine to suit the application/game you want to run (timer, resolution, 3d engine, shadows, lighting, java, opengl, etc...)

XP will be solid for several years to come (at least 4), and there will always be emulators that will cater to the desired results.

[Dirk Delshire]

Right now I'm using dos-box for my King's Quest games, but some of them like 7 and 8 need a combo of win 95-8 + dos. So do you think vista will be able to run them? Xp just barely runs them now...