it seems like we are going to get one:

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And finally, another new project. EA recently added tiberium sun alongside tiberium dawn and red alert in their classic C&C free downloads section. Since I already own the other two they weren't particulaly interesting, but I've never played tiberium sun, so I gave it a download. It actually runs pretty well on this Win7 machine, except for some resolution issues, which I can make a patch for easily enough. Except that I don't want to: I was looking over the list of these graphics patches I've made for old games. I have fallout 1/2, thief 1/2, system shock 2, diablo, crimson skies, summoner, and a couple more that I never got to a releasable standard but only used myself. (Dungeon keeper springs to mind.)** I feel this is starting to get a bit silly, and I suspect that my move to win7 and DX11 hardware will have broken even more recent games, so rather than trying to keep patching everything individually, I've started work on a generic wrapper for DirectX 1 through to 7 to DirectX 9, emulating all the old DirectX features that have been dropped along the way. There's no downloads yet; I'm saving a release for when I'm able to use it to play every game that I currently have an individual patch for.

http://timeslip.users.sourceforge.net/

once this is out,I will (for the first time) seriously consider moving to win7..forget about hardware tesselation,the ability to run old games is what I need ;D

If Windows Vista was a pig, Windows 7 would be a pig with lipstick on....
Take your time, maybe they will have proper 64bit support by then.

oldskool wrote on 12.03.10 at 22:55:35:

If Windows Vista was a pig, Windows 7 would be a pig with lipstick on.... Take your time, maybe they will have proper 64bit support by then.

I told you not to try and run Vista/Win7 on that 1700+  ;D

oldskool wrote on 12.03.10 at 22:55:35:

If Windows Vista was a pig, Windows 7 would be a pig with lipstick on.... Take your time, maybe they will have proper 64bit support by then.

I dunno,I actually think that Windows 7 is great,it's everything that Vista should have been  :-?
I personally do like it btw,Microsofts best OS yet  :D

Leveller wrote on 13.03.10 at 00:52:40:

oldskool wrote on 12.03.10 at 22:55:35: If Windows Vista was a pig, Windows 7 would be a pig with lipstick on.... Take your time, maybe they will have proper 64bit support by then. I dunno,I actually think that Windows 7 is great,it's everything that Vista should have been  :-? I personally do like it btw,Microsofts best OS yet  :D

Although off-topic I disagree. XP SP3 is the best one ever made imho. And I think I'm not the only one since XP is the best selling OS to date as well.

On-topic: I'll stick with a separate retro machine to play old games on. I feel these games should be played the way they were supposed to: on a 15inch screen, running Win98SE with a Voodoo card, preferably with some old-skool soundcards and speakers. Now that's what I call reliving the good old days  8-)

BTW: everyone keeps talking Vista isn't any good. I personally think Vista SP2 x64 is great. I believe that a lot of problems in the beginning of Vista caused people to avoid it, even without trying it. Now that it's problems have been solved, people are still avoiding it because of it's bad reputation but I can honestly say that SP2 on an x64 install is very very good. I never had so little problems with a Microsoft OS than with the SP2 x64 install. It rivals the XP SP3 in my opinion.