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Mummelmann on 18 December 2015
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Chazore said:
Mummelmann said:

 

PC titles will be available long after your physical media has withered and stopped functioning. I can play games released the year I was born (1984) or even older on PC, all digital. Most of my games on GOG are around two decades old or thereabouts.
This is really a non-argument.

Edit; to the above, you don't need one PC for every version of Windows (duh), nor do you need every version of Windows (duh). This is just another non-argument. Where do you get these ideas anyway?
My modern rig runs games that played on Win 3.1 and even DOS, no problem at all.

I've been playing Red Alert 2 on Windows 7 with a 1920x1080 monitor pretty fine without any issues and I just bought a few oldies on GoG like Earth 2160, KKND Krossfire, Ultima series and even the old DOOM/Quake games and I didn't have to do loads of fiddling about at all, hell GoG does a good job at making older games work with modern OS's and even then they aren't the only ones.

 

Yeah, I've never had any issues with older games from GOG, DOSbox also works perfectly well on games like Betrayal at Krondor. I run Windows 8.1 now, no problems with compatibility, games like Thief 1 and 2 also work really well, in XP you had to go in and manually disable processor cores for the games to run; this has been resolved and is done through software adaptation instead, sealing out the cores during threading of gaming processes that can't run several threads.