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[Rogue]

Originally posted by the_fifth_horseman@May 12 2005, 09:45 AM

Exactly. Dual Boot here to save the day, and many, many games will work without problems on such a system. Some oldies require Windows, you know, and might refuse to work on newer versions.

Apart from that, it's easy to find decent 95-operating versions of packer/unpacker programs, so that the access to packed archives is far easier.

You don't even need dual boot for Win95. Dos included with 95 is very compatible with 6.22. All you need is to know what are you doing and to find correct drivers, and install them right way.

This weekend I planned to load Win95 on one of mine old computers (P90 or P133), and experiment with some old games that I was not able to play because of speed related problems.

[robotangel]

But we talk about dos-games, don't we?
I'd run a ms-dos or freedos with win311 and a linux an that system. Or ... no I wouldn't. I'd only install a linux or bsd on that system and use it as a server. For DOS-Games I've got DOSBox, which runs ... AMD Athlon 64 3200+ ... as fast as I need

[Wildcatsa]

:w00t: THE GAMES WORK!!!!!! YAHOO!!!!!!!!!!!! Now to get down to some serious dl's.
I am no pc fundi. I can turn it on, load, delete, work out probs on basic prog's and set up hardware, that's about it. My lcd shows running at 188. so that is not too bad huh?
Thanks Guys!!
Oh yeah, another i-net cafe has your site now

[win98]

Try windows 3.11 window for workgroups why you may ask uses more disk space than 3.1 or 3.11 also windows for works groups has versions 3.1 and 3.11 windows 3.1 has an update to upgrade to 3.11 it is free by the way with win zip 16bit or win32 to run winzip 32bit that would be fine also gather ms-dos 6.22 windows 3.1 or windows for workgroups 3.11 a mouse driver for dos and blank the hard disk and reinstall everything
issed: o by the way thats your data getting a ngry about being deleted but do not worry reformat and reinstall everything will not hjurt and will save disk space because over time crap builds up on you harddisk like my friends comapq deskpro 2000 133mhz had been running oaky until last year when it went to slow reformat did the trick

[Omuletzu]

Originally posted by CMA Death Adder@May 12 2005, 02:47 PM
Trust me, folks, you'll enjoy the experience a LOT more this way than if you are using an emulator like DOSBox. Not to knock DOSBox, its great for those who don't have the ability to play DOS games the way they were meant to be played, but if you play the games on a dedicated machine and then compare to DOSBox, you'll definitely realize what I am talking about. :Tom:

Amen to that brother

[Sinisa]

i had win95 installed on 386 with 8mb of RAM and grafic card with 512 kb ram, and it worked smoothly, i even managed to play diablo1 and some other games of that time that souldn`t work on 386, but they did

and abouth anctient computers, i still have working c64 and amiga 500 (with upgrade LOL), and my first PC was 286 sometime 1988. if i rember good (i was 9 then and got it with my pocket money LOL )

[Wildcatsa]

It is nice to know that there are still folks out there sucha s I that operate in the dark ages, I wish I had found this site months ago. YOU LOT ARE AWSOME. Also, unlike other spots, you don't talk down to the techno-retarded like me. I dig it.
HAving probs with lemmings though, it ran okay fopr a while but now it cuts out on me, screen goes blank and there is no action? any ideas? :help:

[win98]

First ever pc was a 486 dx 100 from 1995 with windows3.11 and ms-dos 6.22 but when windows95 came out and was stable i waited till 95b came out the 486 had windows95 gave it away when in 1998 got a 233 mhz pentinum
with windows95c still got that with upgrades though it is my only working pc using it right now other non working pc was a $5 from garage sale it worked then until motherboard broke last year.

[Omuletzu]

Originally posted by Wildcatsa@May 25 2005, 09:32 PM
It is nice to know that there are still folks out there sucha s I that operate in the dark ages, I wish I had found this site months ago. YOU LOT ARE AWSOME. Also, unlike other spots, you don't talk down to the techno-retarded like me. I dig it.
HAving probs with lemmings though, it ran okay fopr a while but now it cuts out on me, screen goes blank and there is no action? any ideas? :help:

as i understand it, you are using dos, right?!
okay then check for
*-incorrect sound setting
-insufficient memory

check for memory using the "mem" at the command prompt.You should have something like 560K to run the game

*NOTE: if lemmings does not support any sound output rather than the PC speaker then ignore this.

[win98]

486 old ha i will tell you what's old a 286 386 is getting newer
hey at and xt are old as