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Article #94318Re: Patch for ME
From: EvilBill
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 19:15
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 19:15
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Dan C wrote: > On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 02:11:18 +0000, Stephen Howe wrote: > >>> That is done because the game makers are in bed with Micro$oft, and >>> this is one more way to get people to upgrade to XP. > >> In the case of ID Software that is hardly likely. > > In case you've forgotten (and you snipped it from the previous > posts), we are talking about ID games here, D3 and Q4. They were > specifically programmed to NOT work on W95/98/ME. What other > explanation could there be? > That Win95/98/ME blow big fat donkey dongs and always have? Quite apart from the fact those OSs are older than the Brontosaurus. No-one accused id of being in bed with M$ when they stopped coding for DOS and made Quake II Win95-only, did they? >> I am not sure how true that is today. > > Nor am I, but the 2 games in question are pretty close to "today". > Again, they were designed to NOT work on W95/98/ME. Cause those OSs suck ass, are less stable than a politician's 'truths' and id probably stopped using them 6 or 7 years ago. -- -- "I hope you don't object to my badgering the witless!" EvilBill - http://www.evilbill.org.uk yahoo: evilbill_agqx
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