Why am I collecting Operating Systems?!

By vidiot July 14, 2011 4 Comments

So yesterday, I thought it would be fun and play a really old terrible game. 
 
The context of this game is circumstance, let's just say it's a First Person Shooter that involves the player playing as Space Jesus.
Regardless, when it came time to install this game, I found out that I couldn't. Confused by Windows 7, and this strange newfangled contraption known as a "64-bit System", the game's installer simply refused to run. 
 
Concerned, I busted out a box filled with a plethora of old PC games. Same install errors were produced. Even when attempting to change compatibility modes, the installers would not budge. So I decided to boot-up an old Windows XP laptop, install the old game, and copy it over to my Windows 7 system. It worked.
 
I didn't like doing this. 
On a whim, I tried a suggestion from jlrm01. I snagged up a copy of VMware WorkStation 7, and I guess the entire day passed me by, and now I have several operating systems, and as of writing they keep piling up. Do I need to be able to run Windows95? How about Ubuntu? More importantly, why can't I get this old Macintosh OS to work?! It's annoying to have to boot up an emulator to play amazing games, like this. 
 
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Yeah. This summer is pretty boring. :P

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