Microsoft's new OS, already in BETA, will be coming soon, so XP may rapidly follow Win98 into the great recycle bin in the sky.

Yeah...in 2006.

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Microsoft's new OS, already in BETA, will be coming soon, so XP may rapidly follow Win98 into the great recycle bin in the sky.

Let's think about that for a second. Windows 98 came out in 1998 (or late 1997). That mean's they supported it for around 6 years. And part of the reason for not supporting it anymore is that it's using the old DOS-based system (though it tries to hide it). XP and 2000 use the NT kernel isntead, so they have more reason to hold onto them.

Windows XP came out in 2002 (or late 2001). That means we should still have a couple of years of support left. Maybe around 2008 (though earlier).

By the time they drop XP support, PC cpu speeds will probably getting close to 10GHz. At that point, I'd HOPE I'd be using a new OS to take advantage of the new tech.

I don't need a new version of an OS every time it's released. But if I'm upgrading my PC, and a new version is out, I'll buy it at the OEM price. Otherwise, the new version needs to have something substantial for me to upgrade. 2000 was GREATLY ahead of 98 and Me (I didn't bother with Me though). XP had some better hardware / gaming support and the nice interface, but I wouldn't have upgraded had I not been building a new PC.



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What annoyed me was the lack of a mouse slider bar in the menu. I had to search through the INI files to find some mouse-related numbers to change, just to get a decent mouse speed. Surely it couldn't have been all that hard to implement a mouse menu for the PC version.

Thanks for the reply, Arithon. And what you said I already knew and you're absolutely right, ofcourse. I was just so angry because no one mentioned it and I was looking forward playing the demo after being away from home for 2 days after downloading it and not played it yet.

I've installed XP now. It's ok.. still some getting used to

The demo is great! It has 1 training mission, wich actually IS a mission, but you only got one way to go and got training tips wich you are forced to follow (ofcourse).
The second mission is cool too! And is seperated in 2 maps.

I really love the demo, although I'm disappointed by the motions. Character DO walk choppy and Garrett is having parkinson when aiming with his bow.
The graphics are just fine.

Eldaron: It's not suprising it doesn't support Windows 98, since Microsoft were pulling the plug on Win98 this year. Only pressure from developing countries whose hardware cannot run much else, is keeping it alive.
Microsoft's new OS, already in BETA, will be coming soon, so XP may rapidly follow Win98 into the great recycle bin in the sky.
The next version (codename longhorn) is going to be either "Windows 2005" or "Windows .Net" or more accurately, "Windows .Patch" (Cockroach Edition).

400+ MB seems a little heavy for a demo. Anyone know what the content breakdown is? Sound / Gfx / Exe's / FMV???

Actually what is lazy is you not wanting to download a demo because its 450mb.
That 1 map is worth a good 2 hours of gameplay or more if you try playing it using only stealth, or kill everything...or a mix of styles.

There's double the number of posts in this topic which mentions the demo coming than there is in the topic that actually has the demo links.

I am on adsl, but a lot of people are not.
I'm not waiting an hour to downlaod a demo thats only got one level in it. Cant they make some minor effort to make it smaller? its just laziness.

www.positech.co.uk

You using a 56k modem or something? Wah wah. 450mb download takes like an hour TOPS on a high speed internet connection. And nobody cares that its not worth your precious time to queue up a download and go do something else.

who gives a damn about this. I'm not downaloading 450 meg for a one level demo. Why the Fck is it so big? No way is there 450 meg of art and sound in one level.
I'll wait till it comes out on a coverdisk, sorry guys but its just not worth the download time, I could d/l a dozen good shareware titles (and try them) in the time it takes to get this beast.

www.positech.co.uk

So this game isn't friggin' supporting Win '98!? Thanks for mentioning that after downloading half the day! Jezus I'm past being extremely angry now. Forcing gamers to install Windows XP is just madness!
Yes, WinXP is ok, but I like Win'98 more. Period.
Ok ok.. guess I'm forced to use WinXP.
ok ok.. guess I'm forced for some anti-franchising action too in madness.

I'm so pissed.

Guess I'm calmer tomorrow..

Yes, I am aware of that - that is what I talked about a the start of my post.

However, I was/am pointing out what a simple system is was. Presuming you simply have not memorized the combinations you can literally use the "press all the keys" method to unlock any lock within two seconds.

Again, I point out the time aspect. Until you memorize the combinations for the specific locks, I found a quicker (and, yes, cheap :o) way of bypassing locks.

Thinking I already covered this in my first post...,
Ray

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Uhhm the lock picking actually has a method to it. Its not just press all the keys and hope it unlocks.

Lower right corner of the screen you see how many tumblers the lock has, 4 to 6 it seems so far. Pressing your movement keys, ie: Forward, Back, Strafe Right, Crouch, etc one at a time until the tumbler moves. Once you see it move hold down that key and the tumbler will cycle into place with the opening to the right side of the image. Rinse and repeat.

If you just jam the keys until it opens it is going to take you alot longer to open the locks.

Just move the mouse (or be cheap like me - use the direction keys) until the lock jiggles a bit and then press the mouse key.

To be really cheap, cycle through all the options while clicking madly on the mouse; no lock should take more than two seconds now.

HUZZAH!

Wishing I could be an immortal keeper,
Ray

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I love you, mom.

damn..should really get a new 800xt pro..
using my trusty ti4400, gueard stutteringly walk by...mouse feels sluggish...

And *blush* can't even pick the lock in the tutorial

Maybe they figured out that sales vs support calls didn't make it worth the effort of 'officially' supporting 98.

I do support for product and I wish M$ hadn't extended 98 support, I'd get less calls. I also wish we'd drop support for SCO then my calls would really drop but thats another story.

XP is the best OS M$ have made but if more games would run on Linux then I'd remove my XP partition and just use Linux.

Aye - I never really hated them - but they did drastically tone down the zombies in Thief 2 from what they were like in Thief.

Relative to its smaller size, Deadly Shadows is closer to Thief in zombie content.

Stopping time...,
Ray

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Smirking at the return of the zombies

ah really?
damn..always like it much better when it's all a...human vs human thing :-)

No, they are still there. A tad bit less dark and/or artistic, but they are otherwise the same great cutscenes.

Smirking at the return of the zombies,
Ray

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$3 mouse or $5 speakers counts as hardware, if they even check.

Or a damn IDE cable...why anyone would not buy OEM is beyond me...

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