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From: Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: When Is A Game Old?
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On Sat, 13 Apr 2024 18:10:02 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 01:14 this Saturday (GMT):
>> On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 16:00:09 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
>><candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

>>>I grew up playing emulators, so I don't really care that much.
>>>Thenagain, I was scared of fullscreen games :)

>> I still have that fear when it comes to full-screen games from the
>> Win9x/early XP era. They were so... FRAGILE when it came to running in
>> full-screen (or, more importantly, when you tried to alt-tab out of
>> them). Back in the '95 days, switching away from a full-screen game
>> could lock up your computer (these days, the older game might lock up,
>> but you're PC will keep running fine otherwise. That's progress, I
>> suppose).

>Nah, I was way more irrational. Was outright scared bc I couldn't close
>it as easily. Then again, I mostly play games in windowed mode nowadays
>bc it's easier to have other windows open in the bg.

That's a sensible method. 

I, on the other hand, just plug in more and more monitors and make
everything full-screen. ;-)