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Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 1:06 pm
by 71-1085092892
Anyone know of any that are free, functional, and easy to use? I DL'd a couple of them from sourceforge, but they came sans documentation, and sans intuitive interface. Couldn't figger out how to make them work.
Anyone?
Bueller?
Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 1:16 pm
by thibodeaux
DOS emulator? CMD.EXE ain't good enough?
Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 4:33 pm
by 71-1085092892
Negative... the old games look for dos-specific environment things like "extended memory." WinXP did away with a lot of that stuff.
Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 6:24 pm
by TheCatt
DOS boot floppy is probably the easiest.
Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 6:24 pm
by TheCatt
Although. Have you tried VMWare?
Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 6:27 pm
by 71-1085092892
TheCatt wrote:Although. Have you tried VMWare?
No... I'll google that.
Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 6:33 pm
by Paul
I have a dual boot system at home, with 98SE & XP Pro. You might consider doing something like that. I've never messed with DOS emulators (I've never had to).
I've set up a few dual boot systems. I always make a small Fat32 (6 gig or so) partition, and install 98 to it. Then I boot to the XP CD install that to a partition I configure during the startup process. Any free space can be partitioned later in XP.
That Ultimate Boot CD posted awhile back had DOS emulators I think. I could be wrong on that though.
Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 7:37 pm
by 71-1085092892
Does Microsoft still patch Win98?
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 11:13 am
by mbilderback
No, Microsoft stopped patching 98 when ME came out, and ME when 2000 came out.
The reason you need dos emulators over cmd.exe is because of games requiring large amounts of conventional memory, EMS/XMS, or it uses Dos4GW (a lot of games loved this.). I have similar problems. I tried some dos emulators, didn't go over so well. Need to keep trying.
Dos boot disks aren't usefull if you have a purely NTFS drive. And if you single boot to XP or 2k, you should use NTFS.
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 5:32 pm
by Paul
GORDON wrote:Does Microsoft still patch Win98?
No, but I never use Win98 for Internet purposes. As long as you stay offline it shouldn't matter too much.
Now that I think about it, Windows 98 can't see the NTFS partitions I use with XP. So even if I did get hit with a virus, trojan, or malware, it shouldn't affect my XP operating system or the partitions I use to store files. 98 can only hurt whatever I put in that FAT32 partition.
The main reason I have a dual boot system is because of my old scanner (which I very rarely use anyway). It isn't compatable with XP. In fact, if you follow the manufacturers unofficial directions about installing with XP, it buttf*cks my system so that no CDROMs show up. I spent many many hours trying to fix that the first time before giving up and re-doing the system. Later I tried again... same results.
Also, like you, I figure that if I want to play my old games I'll run them off 98.
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 6:02 pm
by thibodeaux
My 98 box has no problem seeing NTFS partitions.
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 8:51 pm
by Cakedaddy
thibodeaux wrote:My 98 box has no problem seeing NTFS partitions.
It just can't read any of the files!!
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Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 9:27 pm
by thibodeaux
Yes it can.
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 11:44 pm
by Cakedaddy
No it can't.
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 8:38 am
by TheCatt
Do you use a special utility, Thib?
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 9:51 am
by thibodeaux
No, just file sharing. I think I misunderstood what Paul was saying; I guess he was talking about a dual-boot box.
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 12:24 pm
by mbilderback
thibodeaux wrote:No, just file sharing. I think I misunderstood what Paul was saying; I guess he was talking about a dual-boot box.
Right, if you are trying to see files across a network from a 98 to an NTFS partition you aren't actually reading NTFS. What it does is use NFS (Network File System) from the one machine to the other. 98 has no ability to read or write to NTFS drives, it sees them as Non-Dos. A third party utility might allow it, but I've never used one.
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 1:42 pm
by thibodeaux
Yes, yes, I know that. I just didn't get what Paul was saying at first. Dammit, my wife just had a baby!
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 1:51 pm
by 71-1085092892
heh
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 4:29 pm
by TheCatt
thibodeaux wrote:Yes, yes, I know that. I just didn't get what Paul was saying at first. Dammit, my wife just had a baby!
Vandy called, they want the Dr. back.