A little early on this one but beginning to panic the more and more I hear about VISTA. Back in the club and playing the TS games again as well as HPS, I know it is inevitable that my next computer will likely ship with VISTA whether I want it or not. From what I am hearing, the TS games may not install on VISTA (it will be like chickamauga on win98 all over again)...has anyone with VISTA tried them?
I am already thinking of work-arounds. Keeping my current XP machine in operation as long as possibe, even installing the TS games on an old Win98 machine as a backup if the old XP goes south. I figure that, while a nuisance, I could play them on one machine, save to a disk, and then email from the new VISTA machine...if it comes to that. The only problem with my "backup plan" is what my opponents will do. The question being will the old TS games still be highly regarded enough for others to bother to go to such great lengths to keep playing them or finally just resign to only HPS.
So I hope I am over-reacting and there will be an easy solution or maybe a miracle of technical wizardry from Mssrs. Tiller and Hamiliton. Yes, yes,I am a worry wart...never one to leave things to the last minute and the older I get the less I like change and especially if it is a case of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." I really get angry over this MS obsession with continually changing the plaform and especially after being "DOS Man" of the 80's and 90's (fortunately I missed the whole mess of Win2000 and Millieum between my win98 and XP) and now having to come to regard XP as the best OS yet. I have rarely had any problem of any signifcance with XP and it seems to me to have always been a friendly and very "self-fixing" program. Just when they finally work out all the bugs (like the new model of a car) they come out with something new.
So someone...please...tell me that I am worrying for nothing and that VISTA is not the nightmare I am hearing from discussions online and in the computer center in the library where I work and patrons are coming in from home to use our "old" machines...Because they can't use their new VISTA laptop to buy or sell their stocks, play their old games, and Wordprocessing software. One guy claims he lost $6000 in a matter of minutes because his VISTA at home wouldn't work with Schwabs online trading program!
LtCol.Tom Ciampa
2nd Bgde,1st Cav
XIV Corps, AoC
Games: TS/BG: AN,BR, GB,SH - HPS: GB, SH