Given that Windows Vista was just recently released to the public, the computer magazines and websites are pasting their reviews for consumers to read. Here's a very informative review of Vista from ComputerWorld that I found for everyone here to check out.

I learned a lot from that review, and I have to say that it has made me even less interested in Vista than I was before...and some of my issues have nothing to do with DRM! I just don't like what Microsoft is doing with their OS. Unfortunately, it seems we will probably have little choice but to conceide and use it eventually -- that is, if we want to do both work and play games. It's really too bad games weren't also made (in decent quantities) for MacOS X and Linux. If games were available for either of those two operating systems the way games are for Windows, I might switch.

Anyway...

If anyone else can find other reviews from other sources (I'm sure there are some), please go ahead and post them. The more reviews we have, the better we understand what Microsoft is attempting to feed us.

In addition, if anyone has any comments or questions about Vista, this is the thread to make them in! We might as well try to keep our discussion about Vista inside one thread, as opposed to multiple threads spread about the board.

Thanks for linking to the article. Much to be learned...

For the price of a full copy of Vista, which is what I would need to upgrade (either my computer didn't come with, or more likely I've lost, the copy of XP that was installed when I bought it), I can buy an XBox 360.

Considering that the PC games I want to play these days are also coming out for the XBox 360 (or another console), it's unlikely I'll be upgrading to Vista. Ever.

I started off as a console gamer, and I started going back that direction three years ago. Microsoft may well have clinched the deal on this one. I might frankenstein older PCs to play classic games like QfG, but when the market switches away from XP, I'll be done with PC games.

Here's a long article that reviews Windows Vista on how it plays games. Of course, the games in question are more recent than Quest For Glory, but it's good to know how well today's games will function on Vista as well. As far as the older games go (like QFG), hopefully programs such as DOSBox will work. If not, then it may be prudent to either keep an older computer around with an older OS (Windows XP at the very least) on it, or do a dual-boot system.

Indeed.

I was curious what would work with Vista. As for DosBox, there will likely be an upgrade for Vista if possible.

I hope Quest for Glory 5 Dragon Fire works on Vista without having the error at end of game when the dragon is breathing on you!

John

I'm not sure about Vista's DOS support but everything else should work fine. Vista still has compatibilty mode only it has XP added to it now as well.

I've used Vista and it is awesome. If you're going to buy it either get Home Pro or Ultimate. Buy a full "OEM" copy from online instead of in a store somewhere and you'll save good money. An "Upgrade" to Vista over writing XP can void your XP Key.

Most importantly run the compatibilty program from MS to check your computer before you buy Vista. There are too many morons out there with big mouths complaining about Vista not running on their modern computers. It all comes down to the drivers not being our or fully working yet.

If you're concerned about DRM don't be. Just avoid the .wma/.wmv formats and strip the DRM if it's something you bought and you'll be fine.

Just installed Windows Vista Ultimate!

From a first look it shows really pretty that's for sure!

Did you setup a dual boot for compatibility?

Nope And I'm back to XP now....lol

Thinking of dual booting actually What's the best way to do that though?

You need to have two partitions or two harddrives, first, as the two cannot be installed on the same drive/partition. You should be given the opportunity to keep your old Windows when you install Windows, though I've heard that some versions of Vista does not allow you to. If your Vista disc does not give you this option, you can try a boot manager like boot magic.

I've been using Vista Ultimate for a month easy and I love it.

After trying to do some reports on Office 2007 I no longer care for it's interface. They need a power user mode for people that have been using Office since the beginning like myself.

Have you tried to customize the interface?

Yes, all there is to customize is the quick launch ribbon.

Ok, here's what I did today.......

I loaded my WinXP cd setup (booted from there)....then I deleted the current partition and made a new custom size partition so that there will be 60GB of unallocated space left after that new partition is created. I installed XP on the new custom size partition...

Then I booted from my Vista x64 cd and loaded setup... Then there was the 60GB of unallocated space that I left earlier and had the option to create new partition in there which I did....and now I'm installing Windows Vista x64 in that second partition

And..... we ll see how it goes

If you are installing the 64 bit version, you will especially be glad you setup the dual boot. Outside of some 16 bit Install Shield installers, no 16 bit code will run on 64 bit Windows. This means no Windows Sierra SCI games, such as the high rez version of KQ6, or any of the Windows only games like most versions of KQ7, Shivers, RAMA, Lighthouse or Phant 2 (though I have a DOS conversion patch for XP on my site for Phant 2).

DOSBox of course runs just fine, so no problem with DOS games. For some 16 bit Windows games Windows 3x can now be installed in DOSBox, but you need to have the install disks. For that matter, even Windows 95 can be installed, but is not usable (yet?). It is also worth noting that Virtual PC is now free.