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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/10/2019 1:25:51 AM   
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As a long time wargamer, I'm not remotely impressed with the state of AI. So what if it can play a good game of Chess, can it understand Sealion?
All the power that we have in hardware, but the software is still unimpressively dismal.

Nope, not interested in uploading my mind to a machine. I'll take my chances in an organic replicating/repairing shell.
And I ain't getting on any sort of space craft for any far off long term voyage to the middle of deep space just yet.

I'm using Windows 10, it came on the new computer. I wasn't having any trouble with 8.5 and 7 was ok as well.
I should have kept an old clunker running Windows 98 considering some of our greatest wargames prefer our old 486 machines.

I don't buy Windows versions. I get them on new rigs. And I only get a new rig when the current machine dies.
It's nice that wargame software needs is often several years behind the current must have gear needed for the current spiffy glitzy mainstream games (which I don't play). "Oh I can't run this" has never happened to me with wargames.

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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/10/2019 4:11:53 AM   
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It's nice that wargame software needs is often several years behind the current must have gear needed for the current spiffy glitzy mainstream games (which I don't play).

I have here an old desktop from 2012 that runs great majority of the newest and fanciest games, even BATTLETECH, DOOM (with reduced resolution, and Project CARS 2. Turn resolution down, anti-aliasing and ray-tracing off, and any game works just fine.

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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/10/2019 5:45:05 AM   
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Windows 10 works well


Microsoft recently sent me an information sheet warning me of Win7's impending demise. When I clicked on the option for further information I was informed that Microsoft no longer recommend updating older PCs with Windows 10 (despite the fact that four years ago I had to fight off their attempts to force it onto the same machine). I am certain that it was pure coincidence that this negative information was followed by an advert for their latest Surface Pro series machines. Nevertheless, I will follow the manufacturer's advice and not spend £100 purchasing as OS that Microsoft themselves recommend me to not install.

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You can also buy an expansion card with USB 3 ports and plug it in the mother board.


Yes, but older processors, including my 2nd gen i5 are not fully compatible with USB3. That's why VR headset manufacturers specify that 4th gen and later processors are required.

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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/10/2019 6:27:25 AM   
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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/10/2019 11:41:13 AM   
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Windows 10 works well


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You can also buy an expansion card with USB 3 ports and plug it in the mother board.


Yes, but older processors, including my 2nd gen i5 are not fully compatible with USB3. That's why VR headset manufacturers specify that 4th gen and later processors are required.

If the USB port is blue, it only supports USB 2.0. If it's black, it supports USB 3.0. Although not every PC maker follows this.

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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/10/2019 12:02:30 PM   
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I'm still using Windows XP as my Operating System simply because I like it and I've taken all of the precautions to keep it safe. Yet, the game developers are claiming that it is much too tedious to support XP in all of their new offerings. So for those of us like me who've not breathlessly run out to purchase a new computer we've now become the shunned. We are now the stupid people who can't keep up with modern technology. It's fashionable to regards XP users as losers, too old and dumb to realize what they are missing, too dense to understand that the world won't standstill for just them, too obnoxious to believe that there is such a thing as obsolete!

I used to be able to dial up Steam and play a nice little solitaire game of Atlantic Fleet. Can't do that anymore! Can't do a lot of things like that anymore!



Honestly XP is getting rather old. At some point you have to upgrade considering the speed of technology these days it's amazing XP can still cut it.

Since the first computers after just a few years they become outdated. I can't remember when XP came out but it must be what 15 years old by now. as someone said was the commodore 64 still being accounted for 15 years after release? Unlikely.

If you want to game digitally then upgrading is part of the course, like it or not. If you don't then you can either stick with the old games or go back to boardgames. That's the choice.

Not sure you can really complain that much about XP not being supported anymore. There have been three new WIn OS since then 7,8 and 10. 10 was given out for free in it's first couple of months too.

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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/10/2019 2:18:08 PM   
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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/10/2019 4:55:51 PM   
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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/10/2019 5:04:12 PM   
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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/10/2019 6:42:37 PM   
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Nevertheless, I will follow the manufacturer's advice and not spend £100 purchasing as OS that Microsoft themselves recommend me to not install.

You don't have to. You can download Win10 from Internet and install it with older Windows product key.


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ORIGINAL: wodin

If you want to game digitally then upgrading is part of the course, like it or not. If you don't then you can either stick with the old games or go back to boardgames. That's the choice.

I say it again: new games are still made for old hardware. Even older than Commodore 64. There are even new operating systems for them. Does this message get through?


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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/10/2019 7:21:27 PM   
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Nevertheless, I will follow the manufacturer's advice and not spend £100 purchasing as OS that Microsoft themselves recommend me to not install.

You don't have to. You can download Win10 from Internet and install it with older Windows product key.


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ORIGINAL: wodin



I say it again: new games are still made for old hardware. Even older than Commodore 64. There are even new operating systems for them. Does this message get through?



Yeah I know at some point all support etc stops....












just messing.

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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/10/2019 7:32:25 PM   
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You don't have to. You can download Win10 from Internet and install it with older Windows product key.

I don't have a Windows product key. Like the vast majority of users, I buy my computers pre- built and with the operating system pre-installed.

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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/10/2019 7:38:27 PM   
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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/10/2019 7:38:36 PM   
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You don't have to. You can download Win10 from Internet and install it with older Windows product key.

I don't have a Windows product key. Like the vast majority of users, I buy my computers pre- built and with the operating system pre-installed.


You should still have the serial number. Only if you bought WIn10 as download or got it free you don't need one, the microsoft website though will know you have it so you can install it again etc.

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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/10/2019 8:12:45 PM   
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You don't have to. You can download Win10 from Internet and install it with older Windows product key.

I don't have a Windows product key. Like the vast majority of users, I buy my computers pre- built and with the operating system pre-installed.


You should still have the serial number. Only if you bought WIn10 as download or got it free you don't need one, the microsoft website though will know you have it so you can install it again etc.


Ok. Found it. I hadn't previously looked for something that I didn't know I had. But as far as I am aware, Microsoft only upgraded for free in Win 10's first year and they have been charging for it since.

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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/10/2019 8:20:40 PM   
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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/10/2019 8:47:06 PM   
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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/10/2019 8:59:46 PM   
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I understand you like what you have and I don't know what your budget is, but a new gaming system for even $500 with a newer OS will really open up a whole new world of games to you and everything you already have should run even better than before. Unfortunately, in the internet-connected world, an old OS like Windows XP can't be kept secure. I'd advise keeping your old system around as a backup, but also investing in a new budget gaming system. I think you will enjoy the ride. :-)

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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/11/2019 1:05:43 AM   
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In the past year and a half, I have purchased four refurbished Windows 10 systems (two Dells from Micro Center, two HPs from Fry's) for < $250 each. They all work great.

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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/11/2019 3:23:11 AM   
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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/11/2019 3:30:03 AM   
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Seems every other WIn OS is good. We had 95 great, 98 hmmm, XP which was good, Vista yuck, 7 good, 8 meh and now 10 which is another good one.

You forgot 98 Second Edition (better than 95 OEM 2) and Millennium Edition.

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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/11/2019 3:54:17 AM   
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Seems every other WIn OS is good. We had 95 great, 98 hmmm, XP which was good, Vista yuck, 7 good, 8 meh and now 10 which is another good one.

You forgot 98 Second Edition (better than 95 OEM 2) and Millennium Edition.


Not including OS updates here otherwise list go on forever..plus who ever had millennium edition??? You certainly like to nitpick

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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/11/2019 5:05:38 PM   
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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/11/2019 5:14:45 PM   
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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/11/2019 8:07:49 PM   
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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/11/2019 11:03:02 PM   
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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/12/2019 3:20:18 AM   
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In my analogous life I have a ZX 81. I haven't used it since Sinclair stopped supporting it. I also (in my analogous life) have a lifetime season ticket for telegrams but, once again, I haven't used that since the whole Tesla v Edison AC/DC thing...




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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/13/2019 6:15:36 AM   
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I have had to figure several out lately, by playing around with the compatibility settings and stuff like that. Not as fun, but once you get the game running, you're glad you figured it out.

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RE: Are Oldtimers Getting Shut Out? - 10/13/2019 10:18:25 AM   
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