Windows vs Windows... lol

Kazer0 · Post by **Kazer0** » Fri Oct 04, 2002 8:57 pm

What windows do you see or think is the best?

Ally · Post by **Ally** » Fri Oct 04, 2002 9:21 pm

I use Win95 and I like it the best, but for some reason I like 3.0, too.

Da_Goat · Post by **Da_Goat** » Fri Oct 04, 2002 9:45 pm

98SE, just because I do. XP is starting to grow on me though...

Nanobot · Post by **Nanobot** » Fri Oct 04, 2002 10:34 pm

I like Windows XP. It's a lot more stable than the latest previous versions, and dispite what a lot of people claim, I have actually been able to run DOS games better with XP than I could with 98.

lakerzz8 · Post by **lakerzz8** » Fri Oct 04, 2002 10:58 pm

Xp is the best!! i have had 95 98 Me and l like xp the best!

Da_Goat · Post by **Da_Goat** » Fri Oct 04, 2002 11:36 pm

I have actually been able to run DOS games better with XP than I could with 98.

That's because XP uses a DOS emulater, so it tries not to tell the presence of new hardware. It doesn't always work, however, and a lot of games work worse because they're incompatable w/the emulator.

Kazer0 · Post by **Kazer0** » Sat Oct 05, 2002 1:17 pm

ME is by far the best. XP is bad and 98se is out of date. 2000 (the busness version of ME) I havent tried, but I doubt it works.

OH DAMN! I forgot Windows NT

Oz · Post by Oz » Sat Oct 05, 2002 1:59 pm

ok, i prefer ME, because i'm also into up-to-date games like return to castle wolfenstein and medal of honour. ME will work best with those games. and, my dad was worried when we upgraded our pc because the pc didn't come with a windows disk, and we were putting a new cpu, motherboard, ram, graphics card and extra hard disk in. but ME installed all the new drivers without having to even connect to the net.

procerus · Post by **procerus** » Sat Oct 05, 2002 3:21 pm

Windows 98SE is the ultimate DOS mode launcher. I use BootIt to launch several Microsoft operating systems from within one another. But 98SE (customized with 98lite) allows you to use the ultimate version of pure DOS in as many configurations (using Microsoft's DOS Configuration Wizard Kernel Toy) as you want! Just right-click a game's shortcut and select Program and then Advanced, check MS-DOS mode and configure the Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files accordingly.

John The Ax · Post by **John The Ax** » Sat Oct 05, 2002 4:49 pm

So THAT's what screwed up the spacing on the screen!

Da_Goat · Post by **Da_Goat** » Sat Oct 05, 2002 7:48 pm

yeah, we all know about you and 98 lite

. And about ME being better for new software: actually, that's why I like 98SE......I tried ME and 98SE, but more of them worked on 98 then on ME.

Kazer0 · Post by **Kazer0** » Sun Oct 06, 2002 11:54 am

I like how my post is in the background of that pic. Man thats big. How do you take a screenshot?

lakerzz8 · Post by **lakerzz8** » Sun Oct 06, 2002 12:48 pm

i think he did print screen? then opened in something like paint? and saved it and put it on his website and then here!

procerus · Post by **procerus** » Sun Oct 06, 2002 1:07 pm

Sorry John. I should have shrunk it in size a bit. I'm spoiled here with a big monitor so I run at high resolutions!

For screenshots I use HyperSnap-
http://www.hyperionics.com/
because it works with my Voodoo2 cards in glide and such too.

But Screen Thief is good for DOS and is freeware now.

Unknown_K · Post by **Unknown_K** » Sun Oct 06, 2002 10:07 pm

Are you people smoking crack? J/K
Win2k is the best stable windows ever made for real work.

Win98SE is the best for directx gaming.

Dos 6.22/DrDos 7 are tied for best DOS for gaming (well since Dos 7.0 was never sold as a standalone but was used for windows 95 base)

King Of Shibby! · Post by **King Of Shibby!** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 10:13 am

Windows?

people still use that thing, DOS rules the planet, actually it rules the universe.

The world was compiled on a 486 dx4 100 RUNNING DOS 5, not windows.

procerus · Post by **procerus** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 11:18 am

Unknown_K wrote-

Dos 6.22/DrDos 7 are tied for best DOS for gaming (well since Dos 7.0 was never sold as a standalone but was used for windows 95 base)

Not wanting to squabble here. I'm just defending my favourite OS. But just because DOS 7.xx was never sold as a standalone doesn't mean it doesn't work as a standalone. Just right-click any DOS program shortcut and go through Program and Advanced and choose to restart in DOS mode! The most under used feature in the Win9x OSes must have made Microsoft weep. They put all this effort into making access to a real version of DOS, in a DOS only environment, simple from Windows 9x and then discovered that nobody used it. Windows 9x was it's own worst enemy really. It made Win32 computing so easy everyone forgot how to use the command line!

Notice I've got single-click access to 6.22 too on that menu. I don't actually use it for anything because 7.10 works just as well (and actually delivers more conventional memory).

I'm with King Of Shibby though! The world was compiled on DOS 5. It's all gone downhill since

King Of Shibby! · Post by **King Of Shibby!** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 10:20 pm

Yeah DOS rocked, it never crashed, n00bies couldn't use it and it was fun! If DOS 7 had been sold as a stand alone it would have most likely have been used as a coffee cup holder. With 95 just realeased, the world had gone happy happy windows crazy.

Da_Goat · Post by **Da_Goat** » Mon Oct 07, 2002 11:53 pm

OMG, I just got a cool idea: a handheld DOS! That'd be awesome!

King Of Shibby! · Post by **King Of Shibby!** » Tue Oct 08, 2002 7:41 am

hehe i think you idea is about 2 years too late, pocket dos was released for hpc's with win ce about two years ago, the only problem is floating point and just generally slow hpc processors.

DOS ROX!!!!!!

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