Shoestar said:
Dear TWRoO,
I agree it is troublesome to spend 2-3 minutes rebooting your computer into DoS mode. I suppose I could almost make a cup of coffee in that time. But look at it this way... while those 3 minutes for u is a waste when someone wants to play a 20 years old game, it is IMPOSSIBLE to do on ANY other systems. So... on the PC u don't have the ease of use u may wish to have... and on the Console it is just plain impossible.
PS: u don't have to instal a disc that runs dos. I will assume u do not know much about computers and I hope this explains to u that this is not installing. It's merely rebooting with another OS. Equivalent of u powering down you wii and turning it back on again. |
While I didn't mention anything about how long it takes... I am suprised it is so quick. but that is not the point, You are correct, I am no PC whiz... but I bet I am easily in the top 1% of people regarding PC knowledge and how to work them (it's how they work I am sketchy on) and the fact is that I would have no idea how to boot into DOS mode, or even if I could do it at all without some disc made by someone who knows what they are doing.
My laptop can't even run GTAIII properly ffs, it often crashes the display driver after about 20-30 minutes, I fiddled with all sorts of stuff like virtual memory allocation but it still crashes most of the time, and even if it doesn't it runs like shit, all the textures swap themselves around so I see windows repeated across the roads or things simple don't appear until I crash into them.
The Sims I also have and it has taken up a stupidly big chunk of my 40GB hard drive (our old PC only had 17GB and it took almost half of that by itself)
PCs may give you the option to play every game under the sun, but that doesn't make it easier to use.
Actually I did downoad a copy of Micro Machines about a month ago (I believe it was legal, but I am not sure), and it messed up, didn't even open the file. No where did it tell me how to get it to work properly so I deleted it and found another one (which seemed dodgier so may have been illegal) It at least started the game, although the sound was iffy and none of the keys did anything at all... except enter and the arrow keys... so if I went onto a menu I didn't want to I had to close the game to get back to the start.
Or I also tried to download the free Spore demo, It downloaded in about 10 minutes and installed in about 3 minutes, after which it told me I needed a new version of Direct X.. it at least directed me to where I can get it, where I had to install something to verify my copy of windows before installing thid new Direct X... which then promptly didn't work at all as when I ran the game it gave me an error message I can't remember.
Ease of use does not equate to number of functions it can perform (usually the opposite) or the number of games it can play.
