Well, you could try XP's "Compatibility Mode", I think my girlfriend got Afterlife to run under XP doing that. She got it to run somehow..haha.. because we just found a copy of Afterlife for like $1 somewhere and she picked it up. Or, if you happen to be blessed with VMWare, there's always that. I've used VMWare to succesfully set up DOS 6.22 and some games that didn't work under DOSBox and Windows 95 to run some games that Win98 and XP didn't like so much. So there's always options.. if you have time and/or money :) You might be able to use Wine or something to run an older version of Windows to get Afterlife to work as well. In general, yes.. software gets old and rusty on the new OS's... but if you're ingenuity is adequate, you can figure out a way to have your cake and eat it too. Where there's a will (and a search engine and maybe $200 for VMWare).... there's an emulation of some kind. -TG *** new email address tg-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx *** old email address tgryffyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx YAY CHAPTER 11! = = = Original message = = = On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 22:38:16 -0200, Manuel Lemos <mlemos@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have all kinds of old software that doesn't work anymore. > > That is because you changed the environment on which it was working. Exactly my point. I don't control when M$ depricates their operating systems. I don't control when my favorite Linux distro upgrades their glibc. You have to upgrade at some point or be vulnerable to the security issues that follow. > The point is that if you do not need to use the latest version, just > stick to the one you have and works for you. Well, I'm not gonna run windows 95 just to play Afterlife. -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://gdconsultants.com/ http://destiney.com/ ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
