What do you know about technology we don't?

[Reese Riverson]

how big a GB hard drive can you have on a W98Se before it doesn't recognize it?

I think that the maximum size of a partition in Windows 98 is 128 GB.

But you shouldn't be using Windows 98

Nothing wrong with it as long as he doesn't use it for today's needs.

Though I know a well respected member at another forum who still used windows 98 up until not long ago, when he got a machine that runs XP.

Actually, want to know what's hilarious? I happen to see a question on Yahoo question thingy, when I was looking up Direct X 11 graphics cards... and I seen someone ask on Yahoo "When is Direct X 11 coming to Windows 98".

[Rayman9930]

I use my W98SE to play all my 2D R games.

[Reese Riverson]

You do know you can use newer operating systems for them too, don't you?

[Rayman9930]

I'm talking about R1, RC, RG, RD, R By his fans. Games that aren't covered by DOS-box!

[Reese Riverson]

Rayman 1 Dos Box setup has already been released for a long time now and works successfully.

[PluMGMK]

Of course you can set them up in DOSBox! You just have to know how.

[Rayman9930]

Tell me how to set up DOS-box for games like french with R.

[PluMGMK]

You just have to make a config file and change the AUTOEXEC section to tell it to start your Rayman game, then set up a shortcut to start DOSBox with that config file. To learn how to do these, type help at the DOSBox prompt and press enter.

[Rayman9930]

Thanks, I'll try that. I really prefer a W98SE because it doesn't have the little sounds that DOS-box has.

[Reese Riverson]

Another way I tried running real dos was under Windows 3.11, windows 95, and windows 98 on Virtual Machine. I tried it on my AMD setup a while back, the games sorta lagged... (Though I ran Descent)... not sure if it was the computer or specific virtual machine. I ran Microsoft's Virtual machine... now I wonder if there are any better which take better advantage of the graphics power.

[PowerPatrick]

Either VirtualBox or VMware should be better than Virtual PC for running these old 3.x and 9x Windows versions.

[Reese Riverson]

Either VirtualBox or VMware should be better than Virtual PC for running these old 3.x and 9x Windows versions.

I'll have to give those a try, thanks for the links.

[Rayman9930]

I'll just stick with what I got.

[Joshua822]

Another way I tried running real dos was under Windows 3.11, windows 95, and windows 98 on Virtual Machine. I tried it on my AMD setup a while back, the games sorta lagged... (Though I ran Descent)... not sure if it was the computer or specific virtual machine. I ran Microsoft's Virtual machine... now I wonder if there are any better which take better advantage of the graphics power.

That shouldn't really matter for DOS games, since they only use 2D acceleration ( which is peanuts to emulate on a modern PC ).
What kind of AMD CPU was it ? An old Socket A one ? Because Socket A CPU's are quite slow for PC emulation.

[Rayman9930]

I'm positive it isn't any old one.

[PluMGMK]

Download CPU-Z and it will tell you everything there is to know about your CPU.

[Rayman9930]

Maybe when I have time.