The world turns backwards?

[A Black Falcon]

I like to be able to actually use my games. "Re-purchase them"" 98% of games do not get updated for hardware changes (sure, Windows still uses x86, but lots of older games are processor-speed-reliant and don't work on fast ones) or software changes (16 bit programs to 32 bit programs to the mostly upcoming 64 bit stuff; dos to windows to win95 to win98 to winxp (i don't know of anything compatible with winme and not win98, so I didn't mention that one -- but there are win98/me programs not 95 compatible.)...)... yes, there is emulation, for older stuff, and DOSBox is cool, but that doesn't help me with mid-'90s Windows games, many of which seem to have problems running on modern PCs, now does it... or games that required 3DFX cards for hardware 3D (okay, there are some 3DFX emulation drivers. I've tried them, they work for some games and not others.), etc.

Anyway, the point is, I like to be able to run my games. And I can run most of them on my current PC. Not all of them -- a few don't work, or don't work correctly -- but the vast majority. If I had a mac (well first I'd have maybe 10% as many games as I do, because macs don't get many games) that quite simply would not be true.

Of course, as I said, Windows isn't exempt. WinXP has pretty bad DOS emulation and I've heard more than enough about the problems XP has with many Win95/98/Me-designed Windows titles to know it has a bunch of problems there too.

I know, providing legacy support is hard... but I really appreciate it when it's there because it's pretty frusterating to have games you cannot play.