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Why am I collecting Operating Systems?!

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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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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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What's this game? I want something else to play besides I. M. Meen (yes, that's an FPS, not some weird chapter in Wand of Gamelon).

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Ubuntu's a strange one to add to the collection just by virtue of how you can actually install it within Windows itself and then still be able to subsequently dual boot into it. I should know since that's how I'm using my Ubuntu partition right now! That being said, jl had the right idea in suggesting virtualization to bypass compatibility and installation issues, since 64-bit Windows is enough of a different beast than 32-bit on a technical level to make it rough on those older programs that aren't specifically compiled and optimized for it. You basically get access to a proper version of an OS that those sorts of games are designed to work in without dealing with the hassle of Microsoft's poorly-designed compatibility routines/DOS emulation. But of course you know that already or else you wouldn't have written this blog in the first place!

I wouldn't say you've truly gotten into OS collecting proper until you start picking up stuff like BSD and Solaris, though, which are so nice and small-fry in the OS arena even by Linux standards that I'd be surprised if they were actually supported in VMWare.

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You damned dirty pirate!