I’m playing with the idea of buying a new computer, however, I’m dead set against having windows XP as the operating system.
The OS of choice might be anyone of these: SuSE, Red Hat, Mandrake, Lycoris Desktop or Caldera - I haven’t made a decision yet. But I’m wondering, will PeaPri games work with these operating systems?
And if they will, is it simply a matter of load and play, or is there a lot of jiggering involved with getting the games to run?
Thanks for you help!
There is a Windows Emulator for Linux out there,but no guarantees on compatibility, though.
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Originally posted by woodelf:
The best bet would be a dual boot system - windows and linux.
I wouldn't mind a dual system with Windows 2000 and Linux, but I emphatically refuse to have windows XP anywhere near my system. Privacy invasion aside, any OS that refuses to let me use a program I paid for because it doesn't like modifications I made to my system, can go the way of the dinosaur without any of us being the worse off.
If I want to use Japanese language programs with my computer, I'll just load the Global IME plug in for windows 2000. It allows Japanese language input for all of Microsoft Office Suite and IE. [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/wink.gif[/img]
I do understand that supporting a "standard" is common business practice, but
a ruthless monopoly with no regard to the consumer is [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/mad.gif[/img] not [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/mad.gif[/img] the same thing as a standard, nor is it a thing that should be supported.
I don't expect PeaPri to make their games Linux compatible anytime soon - if ever - but that doesn't mean I'm going to tout the XP line.
[This message has been edited by tennyo (edited 03-04-2002).]
Same here, I couldn’t agree more with you.
The only thing that Windows XP as far as bishoujo games go is if you want to play Japanese games on your system. All of Peach Princess’ games actually work better on 98 than Windows 2000 and XP and many translated bishoujo games from other companies do not work at all on Windows XP. I doubt that Windows 98 support will drop any time soon as far as entertainment software goes, at least, not for three or four years yet - there are just too many people who refuse to make the change to Windows XP from what I can see.
By the way, I do have Windows XP, though I’ve never actually even attempted to install it - it’s just there for those people I know who insist on using it to save them from supporting Microsoft.
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Originally posted by TurricaN:
All of Peach Princess' games actually work better on 98 than Windows 2000 and XP and many translated bishoujo games from other companies do not work at all on Windows XP.
There is a reason for this: current games being translated by PeaPri were released some time ago in Japan, when XP was not even shipping. So, the "consumer OS" on those days were Win98 and WinME.
What I have said in my previous post is entirely true. I currently have both Snow Drop and Tokimkei Check-in and both run perfectly on Windows 98. Neither of them have ever had any problem of any type running under Windows 98. They both work flawlessly. On the other hand, with Windows 2000 and XP (and this is straight from Peach Princess’ own products page):
quote:Not everyone likes using the “fastest” speed setting, and you have said yourself Kumiko that people do not like requiring the CD to play a game (Playing in silence, or at least without music would not be very enjoyable for many people).
For Snow Drop and Water Closet, the text will appear oddly spaced - this is easily fixed by going to the Settings menu and changing the Message Display speed to “Fastest”.For Tokimeki Checkin, the MIDI music option slows the game engine down to a crawl. It’s necessary to use the CD-DA music option (with CD #2 in your CD drive) so that the game plays at a normal speed.
Simple fact: If something runs perfectly, it cannot run better, and both Snow Drop and Tokimeki Check-in work perfectly with Windows 98.
If you can tell me any reason why these games do not work perfectly under Windows 98, I may believe that Windows 2000 or XP is better for them (And stability is not a reason - neither of these games have ever crashed on me in the many many hours that I’ve spent playing them on either of my computers.).
Of course, what I say, I am only saying with regards to Snow Drop and Tokimeki Check-In as these are the only games I have, as for upcoming releases, we’ll just have to wait and see (The Critical Point demo also worked flawlessly without problems on both Windows 98 machines that I have).
I won’t deny that the future might lie with Windows XP, and I won’t deny that there’s been all sorts of stuff assorted with the OS. You know, piracy protection locking up the OS, Java not supported by Internet Explorer unless you pay for it, etc., etc. I’m not sure how much is true, how much is false, and how much is plain overexaggeration, and frankly, I don’t care–I run on Windows ME. Which has its own headaches, to be sure, but then again, I don’t really have many uses for my computer, so I don’t really need any heavy-duty software. I’m not too worried about what the future OS will be, as long as my current OS is supported. It’s when the companies start phasing out support for it that I start to worry.
And I’m currently logged onto the 'Net on a Mac. And the OS X is very, very lovely, which makes me wonder why barely anyone pays attention to Apple computers. It’s not like that they’re that bad…
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Originally posted by Kagami:
*CsWare has tested their older games and indicated which ones work in XP. Notably absent from the working-list are the following games with English versions: Amy's Fantasy, Fatal Relations, Imorral Study 2, Kotobuki, and Maid's Story. (Can anyone confirm how these behave in XP?)
OK Kagami, here's the lowdown on these titles from my experience. (Please be advised, everyone who is reading this that I have East Asian fonts installed and have non-unicode programs set to Japanese in my Language and Regional settings)
Amy's Fantasies - Can be played if you turn the MIDI music to off. Game plays normally albeit without music.
Fatal Relations - Ran this game without any problems whatsoever.
Immoral Study II - Also ran this game without problems
Kotobuki - was unable to get it running on Windows XP.
Maid's Story- This one's a bit tricky but I was able to get it running under Windows XP. First insert the disc and exit out of the install program, if you have autoplay enabled. Second - Find the setup.exe file on the cd and put it into Win 95 compatibility mode. Run setup.exe.
-After installation completes put the file md.exe in your C:\\C's Blitz\\Meido\\ directory in Win95 Compatibility mode then run the game from there. Didn't have any problems with it.
[This message has been edited by Doug (edited 03-05-2002).]
quote:I used to use Macs in the Desktop Publishing course at college, but from my experience, it was the OS that was too difficult to navigate and because of that, I quit DTP. For example, I could not work out how to access the drop-down menus at the top in programs ('File' menu, 'Edit' menu etc.) and my teacher didn't seem to know how to either. Don't get me wrong though, I have nothing against Macs, but I guess that I've just got used to Windows' navigation controls.
Originally posted by Jeffrey:
And I'm currently logged onto the 'Net on a Mac. And the OS X is very, very lovely, which makes me wonder why barely anyone pays attention to Apple computers. It's not like that they're that bad...