exindguy on 28 March 2009
| Alby_da_Wolf said: ^^ Back in DOS and Win 3.x era, anything different from plain Tseng Labs or other common graphics and SoundBlaster for sound was really a gamble, even when it wasn't bugged. Still with Win95, thanks to 16bit bits and pieces and MS dropping any serious support and improvement short after W98 release (only during XP Home late years MS eventually extended the lifecycle also for home and not professional versions) I had incompatibilities and conflicts popping up out from nowhere after driver updates, SW installs or updates, etc, I even eventually had to do an intermediate step through Win ME as W98 wasn't available anymore, W95 drivers weren't released anymore for some new HW I wanted and Win 2000 drivers weren't there yet, they started coming for some of my first major upgrade's HW one year too late. Win 2000 eventually became the best MS OS I ever had, but in the meantime I was forced to use Win ME crap. Anyway, Win ME became my vaccine for MS marketing, as time went by I even forgave ATI for its bad support for my first graphics card and I restarted buying its products, but I never forgave MS for Win ME and whatever they say I initially don't believe them anymore until it's proven with scientific methods  |
This is true, but the 3DO Blaster was buggier by far than even a normally problematic Windows hardware installation.
| MikeB said: IMO in this example IMO the 3DO was technically the best by far. However IMO the Amiga CD32 had the most good games available (Chaos Engine, Cannon Fodder, Exile, Pinball Illusions, Supefrog, Simon The Sorcerer, etc, etc), despite its short lifespan and many if not most of the games being straight Amiga 500 ports. |
This was also its greatest weakness: if given the option of playing games (good though they were) that I'd already played for years on end, I'd opt for the Jag or 3DO over the CD32 on that principle alone--after all, I don't generally buy new hardware to replay the same old games with, perhaps, slightly improved graphics/audio. (Even if one of those games is the immortal Chaos Engine/Soldiers of Fortune.)
