TheVision wrote:
Which emulators are you concerned about Hearthly? I dabble with emulators a fair bit but aren't the majority of good ones regularly updated?
The main ones I'm concerned with are several fruit machine emulators, one of them slightly broke in Vista/Win7 due to a change in the way the OS handles sound but other than that works fine (and it's only the older fruit machines with non-sampled sound that are affected).
All of the fruit machine emulators are 'abandonware' now in that none have been updated in a decade or more (at least in terms of public releases), so I'm always a bit wary of upgrading my OS.
(It is possible to run them in virtual machines, for example the emulator that broke a bit in Vista/Win 7 can be run in a Virtual XP machine on Windows 7 and the sound works fine, but that's a bit of a faff that I'd rather avoid if possible.)
Also I've got a MAME build from 2006 that I still use (with a set of ROMs matched to that build), so I'd like that to work as well.
Also Visual Pinball + VPINMAME (I've got old builds of those, not sure what the current update scenario is with them), although that's not so important now that there's Pinball Arcade.