[rescue] Request for recomendation [was: Why is everyone so OSX happy?]

[Andrew Weiss]

On Wednesday, April 16, 2003, at 01:09 PM, N. Miller wrote:
> I have been contemplating switching my gaming machine to XP, since it
> allows you to do so much more wrt "imitating" older OSes than Win98
> (which was? the reigning gamer's OS).  But, I find the prospect of re-
> installing all the software that I have on the 98 box daunting (I still
> have save files from the original X-Com. :-)  Yes, I know, I'm
> pathetic.
>
I built a master games machine (belongs to my girlfriend and is the 
only Win box in the house) this weekend running Windows 2000 Advanced 
Server.  It works fine.  Just don't download DirectX 9.0a... it makes 
many direct3d games unusable.

Andrew