Windows Vista RC1

**Jun aka Pekto** · September 18th, 2006 12:48 AM

Originally Posted by bbt

may i ask, what exactly is happening here?

It's similar in concept to Apple's Expose. Instead of Alt-Tab (which is still available) to switch between windows, you press a button and all the windows go into a 3-d mode. you then pick the window you want.

**bbt** · September 18th, 2006 12:49 AM

Originally Posted by Jun aka Pekto

It's similar in concept to Apple's Expose. Instead of Alt-Tab (which is still available) to switch between windows, you press a button and all the windows go into a 3-d mode. you then pick the window you want.

astig!!! hehe

**Jun aka Pekto** · September 18th, 2006 12:54 AM

Originally Posted by bbt

astig!!! hehe

Yup. But, you better have a decent video card for it to be smooth. Actually anything newer than a GF FX5200 and an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro. It doesn't have to be faster than those cards, just newer. Even Intel's GMA 900 is ok.

Aero is quite speedy in my X800XL which is now considered old.

**Jun aka Pekto** · September 18th, 2006 01:45 AM

Other apps/games that seems to work fine:

ScummVM:

DOSBox:

and

Project 64:

**Odo** · September 18th, 2006 01:51 AM

OS9 to OS X?

Originally Posted by Jun aka Pekto

Still, Vista RC1 is in much better shape than I expected. It certainly is in much better shape than when I first bought OSX (retail) back in spring of 2001. Anyone who bought OSX back in 2001 would agree with me that it was as sloooow as molasses in winter.

**Jun aka Pekto** · September 18th, 2006 06:21 AM

Originally Posted by Odo

OS9 to OS X?

Yup. OSX was ridiculously slow in a G4-400 back in 2001. But, the freedom to not have to allocate ram manually to each app was a blessing. Yun nga lang, ang baaaaagal. But by 2003, 10.2.3 was only occasionally crawling (only when ram gets short). After that, everything OSX (Jaguar, Tiger) was sweet.......

Occasionally, I'd go to my kid's room and play with the Mini and iBook 800 (ignoring my daughter's protests to not mess with her computers) just to see and compare features. Tiger simply amazes. Then, I'd think back to 2001 and go back to playing with Vista RC1 and think, "You know, Vista isn't so bad at this stage".....

**nugundam93** · September 18th, 2006 07:27 AM

wow...if that dos box could play crusader...

may pag-asa pa yung mga old-school hentai games ko!!! :lol:

olats kasi compatibility mode ng winXP eh. so how would those two (dos box and compatibility mode) compare?

**Jun aka Pekto** · September 18th, 2006 07:41 AM

Originally Posted by nugundam93

wow...if that dos box could play crusader...

may pag-asa pa yung mga old-school hentai games ko!!! :lol:

olats kasi compatibility mode ng winXP eh. so how would those two (dos box and compatibility mode) compare?

I don't know. I can only speak from the DOS games I own. I rather use DOSBox since it takes too much work to run games like Crusader: No Remorse in Windows.

I only have a few DOS games left:
Crusader: No Remorse
Steel Panthers and expansion cd
Star Wars: Tie Fighter

The rest are Lucasarts adventure games. For those, I use ScummVM.