Cymro

YAY, my old games problems have finally been solved, I now have Windows98SE installed!

Cymro goes to the Jukebox and puts on the Beatles' "Get Back", followed by some Placebo.

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"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."

Stag

I hate the Beatles

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Bean

I hate Windows 98SE..

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Cymro

Meh...I don't care for it that much either anymore, but it's the first copy of Win9x I could find around the house, and my games work with it, plus it loads REALLY fast on my current PC.

It's on a 2GB Partition on my HD, so other than when I miss my old games, I'm still running Win2k.

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"Let me tell you something about humans, nephew: They're a wonderful, friendly people - as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working.

"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."

Bean

The only really good game that I can't play in XP that I can think of right now, is Tie Fiighter.

Although I can play X-Wing Alliance. Which isn't nearly as fun, but has mildly better graphics.

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"I haven't faced death. I've cheated death. I've tricked my way out of death and patted myself on the back for my ingenuity. I know nothing."

--James T. Kirk

Cymro

Well, as I noted earlier, XP must have better backward compatibility features than 2000 Pro, perhaps due to the fact that 2000 was designed more towards office use, where old DOS games aren't needed.

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"Let me tell you something about humans, nephew: They're a wonderful, friendly people - as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working.

"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."

Bean

Are you kidding? Office use is the most important place to have DOS games No 3d accelerator required.

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"I haven't faced death. I've cheated death. I've tricked my way out of death and patted myself on the back for my ingenuity. I know nothing."

--James T. Kirk

Cujo

Ya... XP has the ability to run a program as if it were a different OS. I think its called Compatibility Mode. You can also switch the app to run in 256 colours if need be.

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Cymro

Yeah, I have that on Win2k, it works sort of 50/50, I still can't get some progs to run with it no matter what I do.

Sometimes a program will reject installation merely due to to the fact it's on NT, Compatibility mode can fix this, but not always, so I can just use the 98 Partition to install and run it on either. I quite like running 98 acctually, it's well fast compared to 2000.

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"Let me tell you something about humans, nephew: They're a wonderful, friendly people - as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working.

"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."