ME is cool 
I think the issue was just driver model changes that devs didnt actually look at
Yeah, I used ME for a week a while back and It ran smooth on a Pentium 3 processor from an BM workStation. It never crashed besIdes the desktop which i just restarted by pressing the reset active desktop button on it. I also used Vista for a year when my Pc died due to a old GPU and i didnât have any on hand. It had 3Gb of ram (I thinkâŚ) and it ran on integrated graphics for a while till i got a HD 5450 from a friends who didnât use it. It was nice, it ran firefox well, i could play old games that didnât work on newer os (Fallout 3 & NV). Overall they both werenât bad just needed some attention to make things better, like Vista SP2 which made it really good. Overall i like them, and if i want a retro/early 2000âs gaming pc⌠iâd probably use Vista instead of xp sadly but probably in a dual boot to switch between if one runs better in xp or in vista.
Dual boot of XP and Vista? Never thought that could be a thingâŚ
It is
It should be possible. I will try to use the BCBoot method vid the admin terminal in vista to add the windows xp ver, but if that doesnât work⌠I could try to use EasyBCD as a back up (last time i used that⌠it screwed up my computer, be careful (pretty sure it was a bug)). Over i think itâd work. I could also just get a 700Gb HHD and do a multi os boot which is tricky, but i could then install XP for older games, vista just for the heck of it, windows 7 for stability if windows 10 doesnât work with it, and finally Windows 10 for the latest games that i buy/get. Just an idea as of right jow since i have no money. probably a college project later on. Actually the multi-boot really wouldnât work with vista and xp since theyâre out of driver support now.
I donât see why it would require more than a simple partition on the drive and install whatever you want in that partition. I do that with my PC to run lubuntu, Vista, and 7 on the same PC.
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same, i just install the other system in a separate partition and boom, it works
yeah, i maked dual- boot with vista
in my opinion Win ME is a great OS, likes a Windows Vista of 2000âs, have good advances but some bugs, but i n a general vision itâs a very great OS helping in developing of Windows XP
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yep thatâs a good way to put it 
anyhow: itâs a shame vista barely held out for half a year before everyone gave it the middle finger
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Me
i used vista for some time, the real problem is the icompatibility with newest driver
yep. MS gave them a ton of time for drivers and not many devs properly bothered
that and the high sysreq of the time
sure
welp, without Vista we wouldnât have had windows 7. Also itâs sad because Vistaâs death was caused by Devs that didnât care about trying to make proper drivers, and itâs kinda due to the fact that people couldnât use it since they didnât have 1 Gb of ram to experience a good Os at the time.
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I remember using Windows Vista, it wasnât that bad after the service pack, but i was using brand new hardware, i guess this was the main factor of the Windows Vista experience, older hardware wouldnât have the proper drivers nor the power required to run it smoothly.
yep you got it. The Service pack was the savior of Vista. I hope steam will let us access its service even though theyâre stopping support, cause i donât want to buy my retro game library all over again through GOG. Iâm gonna try and read up on that if possible. I want to do a ultimate vista gaming pc sometime since i like vista.
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Well then grab some Rum ân sail away ân come back witâ thâ loot
I donât have any free hard drives to load up with my steam My dad only gives me small hard drives to use 10-40 Gb hard drives and my retro games would fill it up slowly but surely, but IDK if Steam Offline mode would allow me to play the games after they shut it down, cause theyâre cutting us entirely off if we run xp or vista, which means no Fallout 3 for me.
haha you didnât got what i meant.