32 or 64bit?

[cHiNgY1788]

Originally Posted by Sir Yuck

What games could you play on that thing anyway?

Starcraft
Fallout 2
Diablo
War2
if i upgrade the video card im sure i can play counter strike

wonder if descent is 16bit, that was a mad game

[Murf]

Forget trying VISTA on the "BEAST" - don't waste your money, take the money you would spend for VISTA and do some upgrading.

Vista Home Basic Edition:

1 GHz processor
1GB memory
40GB hard drive with at leaset 15GB free space
128mb graphics memory (minimum)

[cHiNgY1788]

no no, i want to run decent on alienware

[oracle128]

Originally Posted by dudeking

The only 16 bit app I still run is the original version of Doom lol

I'll miss it, but I'm sure I can survive

Doom is DOS, which means you can use DOSBox to run it (as DOSBox is 32 bit). The only software you have to worry about is 16-bit Windows software. Hopefully, someone will come out with a DOSBox-like 16 bit Windows emulator by then (or if someone ports WINE to Windows), otherwise dual boot will be required.

[dudeking]

I'll just have a XP virtual machine.
I really hate dual boot, I lost so much data last year setting up my vista beta, suse & XP boot system. I'm going to put up with the slight performance loss and do it the easy way

[oracle128]

Wouldn't you be better off running a Win95 virtual machine?

[dudeking]

Narr not a huge fan of 95, I might be tempted with a 98se virtual machine though.

[Sir Yuck]

What is a virtual machine?

[cHiNgY1788]

im guessing kinda like emulating a computer running X operating system

[lustigj90]

a virtual machine is a computer running inside of another computer of a sort. you have you computer that is say, xp, and you build another machine inside of the xp (Linux or something).