Subject: RE: aklug Digest V2 #72
From: Lee (lee@afabco.com)
Date: Sun Mar 24 2002 - 17:53:34 AKST
Hi Peter,
Have you considered getting a new 'friend'?
In general, nt/2000 doesn't perform well with most games for a variety of
reasons. Best bet is to just get the cheap removable hard drive carriers,
and swap out a win98 system when the kids want to play games.
Cheers,
Lee
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 16:43:28 -0900 (AKST)
> From: "Peter Q. Olsson" <olsson@koyukuk.at.uaa.alaska.edu>
> Subject: off topic- windoz
>
>
> Hello all
>
> I have a dual-boot machine at home that runs windoz 2k and linux.
> A friend who
> was moving away gave me a bunch of windoz games and my kids are
> on my back about
> getting said games up and running.
>
> I have yet to get any one of the 15 or so games to run
> correctly. Various
> problems including lockups (no Blue screen of death, though) and keyboard
> controls not functioning. Is Windoz 2000 such a "professional
> edition" that it
> will not play and work well with such frivalous applications as games???
>
> ENQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW...
>
> PQO
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