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IG-88:
Been looking at this O/S. Has anyone any experience with it? Any comments? Is it really as compatiable with windows hardware & software as they claim? Wonder how well this would work in our cabs?....
http://www.reactos.org/xhtml/en/index.html
Only found one other comment about it here in the forum.
elvis:
1) React is highly experimental. Do not expect stallar performance from it.
2) In a cab, why would you want a desktop system? FreeDOS and/or Linux are perfectly usable alternatives, both of which are a $0 outlay, and both will give superior performance over React.
youki:
I follows this OS since a while. Waiting to have a good a DirectX support... And then may be try to port Atomic on it.
The fact to have the source, is really good. And we could optimize it to build a pure OS dedicated to Arcade cabinet.
Wait and see...
Howard_Casto:
It is amazing that they've gotten it to work this well, but my guess is they'll never fully get directx support simulated. Dx gets info on a card based on the driver, so unless they perfectly re-create every single driver for every single video card, it'd be a crap-shoot as to if your card would work. Think linux hardware support but even worse.
And elvis, in a cab why wouldn't you want windows? You have pc games, fes that don't look like crap and 20 times more emulators to play with.
youki:
--- Quote ---Dx gets info on a card based on the driver, so unless they perfectly re-create every single driver for every single video card,
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Yes, you're right. But i think that windows drivers will be (or already are for some) compatible with ReactOS.
Extract from the ReactOS web site :
--- Quote ---ReactOS aims to achieve complete binary compatibility with both applications and device drivers meant for NT and XP operating systems, by using a similar architecture and providing a complete and equivalent public interface.
--- End quote ---
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