ORIGINAL: Joe 98
ORIGINAL: Lobster
Wut?
Many airlines use ancient computers that have black screens with green writing.
Some of us passengers use airline web sites and apps. The user interface is not black screens with green writing.
So, if the software underneath the game is ancient, the user interface can still be made to be slick and easy to use.
The testers are not allowed to show us so we cannot know. When the game is being marketed the developers needs to show us the user interface and compare it with TOAW 3.
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Wow. Just wow. [:D]
Edit:
You are missing some really basic understanding in computer technology. You are trying to say that a Model T should go as fast as a Ferrari simply because it's driving on the same road.
That airline mainframe that you keep bringing up needs a graphical interface to present something even remotely resembling your smartphone/computer/tablet/whatever screen. Why should they bother with one when they don't need it? Not having worked for an airline I really have to wonder if they ALL use what you claim.
Your digital device that shows you that fancy screen has the computing power via the cpu and gpu to throw up that fancy looking interface and the interface is designed around all of that computing power. But, if you took an earlier 1998 software program designed for a less powerful computer you would have to redesign the entire thing to make it look like the stuff that runs on the newer more powerful hardware (cpu,gpu). That means rewriting EVERYTHING. Ground up. Taking the Model T and throwing it all, lock stock and barrel, into the crusher.
Bottom line, if you want to make a 1998 game act like a 2016 game you are going to have to build a 2016 game. The 1998 does not have the framework you need to hang the fancy stuff from to do it. Maybe if you had enough time and monkeys and a big room they could get it done, eh?
Or a crapload of money you may never see again.