Why connetix doesn't release a Windows 2000 friendly Virtual

[someone_nt 0]

Looks like even these guys beleived MS statement that Windows 2000 is for business and not for games, windows 2000 users don't need games..blah blah blah.

 

Now, VGS messagebox shows "This program only runs under Windows 95/98/ME". What happened to Windows 2000 support?

 

IF Windows 2000 has Directx 7 built in support, why won't connetix try to make some fixes and make it run under 2000?

 

Is it because if they do it, they will have to lower their antipiracy VGS system?

[tristan777 0]

errr.... and i was gonna buy this... this is really making me wonder if i should build a win9k box, and find a switch that will change my keyboard, mouse, speakers, and monitor to either computer. if there is such a device.

[kenshinhimura 0]

Well, if Windows 2000 would run all Win9x application, people won't buy X-Box anymore.

[CUViper 0]

Quote:

Originally posted by tristan777:
...find a switch that will change my keyboard, mouse, speakers, and monitor to either computer. if there is such a device.

yes, there are devies to let you do this. I have some at work... I'll check the brand for you next time I go to work...

[tristan777 0]

sweet... i hope they aren't too expensive. i can't wait to get my hands on such a magical device...

[CUViper 0]

The switches we use are made by Aten Technology... you'll want to check out their MasterView KVM Switches. As far as price, they start at about $100...

[euankirkhope 0]

VGS doesn't work in win2k as NT doesn't tolerate dirty little hacks to access the CDROM (as an example). By using the proper access routines to access the low-level hardware the latency would become to high, which would then screw up the timing for the emulator, similar to problems all emulators suffer. It is really difficult to make a fast low latency application, that doesn't sacrafice stabilty.

[tristan777 0]

ouch. well i found one made by someone else.. cant remember who, but it was 60, so i might pick one of those up. i still gotta buy some more stuff for the other comp. so i probably wont do anything with it for a few months anyway..

[Bursar 0]

Make sure you can take the switch box back if it doesn't work properly.

 

With some of the boxes, when you switch the keyboard and mouse from machine A to machine B and back again, machine A will no longer detect the keyboard and mouse.

 

Just something to watch out for.

[tristan777 0]

yea i thought about that, since ps2 sucks i thought i might have problems... hmmm...

[DosFreak 2]

The reason VGS has not been update is because of legal difficulties. That's IT. Connectix is a fine company and would have update it A LOOONNGG time ago. All you had to do was ask and they would have done it. I'll look for the link but basically Bleem won and Connectix lost. Anyways EPSX is better than both of them and is FREE too!