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[wendymaree]

Well, actually Sebatianos, I think you're right. I have 98 and you do have the option of opening straight into Dos if you hit the delete key while the computer is running through the initial dos setup and then choosing start in Dos mode. I think Win98 does have the complete dos program.

Thanks for that great tip, Buffy!

And Callum this is a solution, too. I've discovered why dosbox wouldn't go into fullscreen mode when you clicked ALT + ENTER was because there was an entry in the dosbox.conf preventing it. You have to change where it says:

Fullscreen =False

to

Fullscreen=True

and where it says:

fullfalse=false

change to:

fulldouble=true




Then you can change back and forth between small and full-sized screens by pressing ALT + ENTER without any problems.

[DonCorleone]

Hmm, I used to run dosbox on an AMD Duron 750 and never had any problems. Now I´m running it on a celeron 1,6 and it runs fine also.
Do you really think that one needs a minimum of 2ghz?

And by the way win95 and win98 really doesn´t have a real dos anymore. As far as I know it just has a minimum of the real dos functionality...

[Eagle of Fire]

Exactly DonCorleone.

I always recommended a minimum of 1 gigahertz to run DOSBox efficiently. However, you should still be able to run the very old games fine even without 1 gigahertz. It's really game and cycle dependant.

[wendymaree]

Where I wrote that you need a min of a 2 ghz proc. to run dosbox, I was quoting from the FAQ section at Abandonia. I'm using a Celeron 1.5 M to run it, and I'm having a lot of problems with it. Often the processor is showing as maxed out. Every system reacts differently. And my 98 system has as much DOS functionality as any other I've used. It's not just a shell, although it can be used this way, too. Windows 98 works with two versions of DOS. One you can access through the command prompt in Windows...and games are played using the Dos shell. There is also the pure DOS section - MS-DOS - which is accessed while booting up at the start or from the start menu, requiring a reboot . Some games which won't run through the shell will run fine through pure DOS.

[Eagle of Fire]

Stating that you have problems with your CPU and it is a Celeron in the same sentence is very funny for me Wendy... I don't think you need to search very far to find the problem...

For Win98, I know very well how it works. I worked with Win98SE for 5-6 years. The command prompt is far from being a complete DOS. It is still good for the majority of games made under DOS to work, but that's it. You only have the basic.

Rebooting in "true DOS" mode sure will help with those programs which can't tolerate Windows. It is still far from the "true" DOS, which would be DOS 7.1 or lower. The good thing is that you can customize your autoexec.bat and config.sys to help your system be able to run the DOS games and it makes all the difference.

[Rogue]

You can copy additional DOS commands from Win98 CD in to command folder under c:\windows. This will add excluded DOS commands needed for some games. Same apply for Win95.

Additional commands are located in:

CDROM:\TOOLS\OLDMSDOS

[wendymaree]

Originally posted by Eagle of Fire@Mar 13 2005, 06:11 PM
Stating that you have problems with your CPU and it is a Celeron in the same sentence is very funny for me Wendy... I don't think you need to search very far to find the problem...

You can insult me (I know you weren't) but never insult my laptop. I'll be sending the boyz over.

Had to get in the last word. :bleh: