Crysis is aptly named...

[A Black Falcon]

These days I actually run a lot of my DOS games in DosBox. It isn't perfect, but it is really starting to narrow in on perfect.

I already complained about how far DOSBox was from perfect in a bunch of DOS games in one of my Vista threads so I won't here. If DOSBox was a near-perfect emulator I wouldn't mind nearly so much about the loss of DOS, that's for sure...

Well the thing is, NT based systems don't really allow direct access to the hardware layer. That's part of the whole directx thing. It's better that way but since sound card support pretty much requires direct access in the old DOS games (hence why old setup programs needed so much technical info about your sound card back then) you end up with no sound in DOS games.

So essentially, you agree that on the DOS point Vista's change didn't actually matter much because modern XP machines can't run DOS games anyway, thanks to sound card and gameport issues?