Windows 365

[Harrison]

I think the days we enjoyed of dodgy OSs and demoing games before we buy have become a thing of the past for most. And I don't think that many younger games ever have. I don't bother so much any more as games are pretty cheap these days, often given away or heavily reduced. Plus the subscription services like Xbox Gamepass and Playstation Now.

But the enthusiasts will continue. I still like to play around with old OSs in VMs and using "free" versions of OSs is easiest. And anyone into emulation is obviously still doing slightly dodgy things due to copyright of older software.

With Torrents, Usenet and similar I doubt a anyone would be using a remote OS like 365. Setting up behind a firewall and even a VPN these days is the best solution.

[J T]

And anyone into emulation is obviously still doing slightly dodgy things.

I think you are painting them in a very bad light there.

With Torrents, Usenet and similar I doubt anyone would be using a remote OS like 365

Go on, just imagine what I was going to write there.....

[Harrison]

Am I?

By it's very nature Emulation is mainly used to play old video games. As such users will have obtained some rom sets. Many games roms included will be commercial with existing copyrights still in place. So it remains a bit dodgy to download them. But most turn a blind eye, unless you are Nintendo.

But without emulation or the whole rom collector community we wouldn't now have such a great historical archive of old system software. We would have lost access to a lot of games over the years.

[Stephen Coates]

Last edited by Harrison; Today at 10:05.

The jokes don't work very well when you edit the posts to correct the typos

[Harrison]

Sorry. It's my OCD with typos. A lot appear in my posts because I tend to post via mobile using swipe typing and never read back what I've written before hitting post. Just can't leave them there.

[J T]

That was a wicked pun though, I have zero regrets