The original Sims should work just fine on Vista. It's not
that old. Vista really doesn't have as many compatibility problems as people make it out to have, especially after years of patching. Hell, after years of patching almost every problem people fault it with have been solved. Those that haven't, such as memory usage, either aren't problems but rather intentional features people just don't understand (UAC, while annoying, is actually a good idea that Unix has had for forever, as anyone who runs Ubuntu and has to deal with sudo can attest to. Plus, it can be disabled anyway, unlike Unix's security features) or have become less troublesome with modern hardware (1GB RAM is plentiful to run Vista just fine for most people and is typically the minimum standard now. Even 512MB, which may still be found on budget systems, can run Vista Basic fine albeit perhaps with multitasking problems).
The big thing to worry about with comparability and Vista are 16-bit programs. Vista 64, in fact, can't even run 16-bit programs period. Almost anything written within the last decade will be 32-bit though so no problem there.
Trust me on all this, I'm a computer science student and just finished writing one of three programs due this week. Whee, C++ is fun now that I get used to it! :D Hell, if anyone here has computer problems just ask me about it and I'll try to help. Of course, if little people here actually read my posts than those who may need my help wouldn't know to ask me. Almost makes you wish you read my posts now, doesn't it? Doesn't it?!
So, anyway, Bay and Astinus! Congratulations for reading my rantings!
Here is your reward! Enjoy it in all its melty, chocolaty goodness that I in no way just now randomly pulled from Google image search results. As for all the rest of you, since you probably won't read this either than I can safely say that I hate you, without any of you even knowing I said it.
Bay said:
That's what I like about your one shot.
Lawl, Three-Sixteen is a bit of an extreme example but I guess it does show what I mean.
Bay said:
I suggest you have the excerpts be put in random chapters, though.
More likely I'll probably just integrate the writing itself more into the story and have excerpts go along with those parts, but who knows...
Astinus said:
I forgot to buy some yesterday, and I am now completely cookie-less.
Buy? Bah, I can get them for free with my unlimited meal plan at my dorm's dining center. And they're actually pretty good too.
Astinus said:
Also, everyone, my Sims blew up their neighborhood. I love them.
I just now realize how awesome working nukes would be in one of those games. I'd build a house and just scatter nukes around it, then see how long it takes for some random stranger to wander in and set them all off in a glorious chain reaction.