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Dave Richards
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In reply to drooartz:
That, my friend is worth knowing, I've got a buddy (BYU alumni, BTW, I'm a Ute!) who's a big Mac fan, I'll talk to him about this, does it slow the machine down, or otherwise bugger it up?
That, my friend is worth knowing, I've got a buddy (BYU alumni, BTW, I'm a Ute!) who's a big Mac fan, I'll talk to him about this, does it slow the machine down, or otherwise bugger it up?
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coldplugs said:
I'm experiencing a critical compatibility issue at the office as well. I have to use Microsoft's "Application Compatibility Toolkit" to create "shims" (as MS calls them) so our older games will run on the newer OSs. ACT 5.0 is the version I need to use to create Vista shims, but I'm held back by two problems: 1) I cannot create Vista shims on my XP SP2 workstation, and 2) ACT 5.0 will not install on my Vista 64 machine (the msi installer tells me "this application only works on 32 bit versions of Windows" ). /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rolleyes.gif
Thanks MS for making my life so easy....
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Nunyas said:
I spent most of the late Vista beta period with my eyes closed and fingers in my ears waiting for customers to tell me our stuff failed on the new system. We're heavily dependent on openGL and all the early stories were scary. We seem to have lucked out since there aren't any reported problems. I did the recommended changes to avoid the user privilege issues.
Your code is way more graphics oriented and complex than ours, I'm sure. I read about the ACT package and just decided, if it came down to needing to do all that, I'd just retire.
I sometimes wish MS would hire some grownup system designers - so much smacks of inexperience. Good luck with it.
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Note to Doc: We've been using Borland tools for years & the experience is generally good. Your mileage may vary for sure, though.
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dar100 said:
Apple's "Bootcamp" software repartitions the disk, and XP is installed on the second partition. The two systems are completely separate, so there is no impact on the Mac side, and the Windows side runs at full speed (i.e. not emulated). Vista is not officially supported yet, but folks do have it running and it is expected to be fully supported.
https://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/
Still a few driver bugs on the windows side, but they're minor--I've noticed a few minor mouse glitches now and then with the track pad. Apple still rates this as beta software, but I've been using it as my main Windows machine now for a few months with no issues. Very handy for a Mac guy who needs just a bit of Windows now and then.
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DrEntropy said:
We are... sorta... I think it's mostly related to their xBox gaming consoles though, because we haven't jumped through their hoops to be able to slap a MS logo on any of our PC games in ~years~. Or maybe it's a Corporate thing since our IT needs OS's for 100K+ PCs, and Corporations don't like paying retail for stuff like that... heh
Either way, being in the branch of this Corporation that I'm in, I'm getting to see a lot of complexities develop thanks to the new Windows Vista marketing scheme, and MS's decision to split Vista up into 6 different versions (Vista Home Starter (available only in emerging markets), Vista Home Basic, Vista Home Premium, Vista Ultimate, Vista Business, and Vista Enterprise) and then there's 2 versions of each of those (32-bit and 64-bit). The line of business I'm in we're interested in Home Premium, and Ultimate, but our IT is only licensed for Business versions, which is no good for what we do... And so, we're stuck in long drawn out licensing issues that the legal people get to discuss behind closed doors. Ain't Corporate red tape fun? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
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drooartz said:
Well, you've helped me make up my mind. I'm so frustrated constantly de-bugging my windows stuff, I just couldn't imagine sending her off predisposed to those messes. My boys came home at breaks inoperable computers.