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GameMaster.EXE

I need someones opinion about this......... is Windows NT a good OS or just a crappy Windows 95 copycat?

dosraider

GameMaster.EXE · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 7:40 pm Post subject:

Actually I have W95 OSR2 (also known as W95b) and its plain crap and wondering if NT 4.0 was any better. The reason I thought it might be a W95 copycat is because they use the same interface. But for know I'm going stick with what I have now. Reason? NT 4 doesn't have support for FAT32 and wasn't built on dos.

kreats · Member Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 25

nt also doesn't have direct x

Elign · Moderator Joined: 18 Dec 2004 Posts: 271

NT is more solid and reliable, and for some things it might even be faster and stronger. But it is a mighty gamble, and depending on what software/hardware you're running, the switch to NT 4 might be worse than keeping your 95 system.

dr_st · Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:53 pm Post subject:

Windows NT = Complete Waste Of Time

* Old
* Nothing works on it

It's kinda like the original Grand Theft Auto compared to the sequels, if you know what I mean. The concept is great, but the implementation was lacking at times. Just like GTA2, GTA3 and others improved on GTA, Win2K and WinXP improved on WinNT, but the original itself isn't worth the trouble.

Gamer_V · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 3:24 am Post subject:

What's NT good for then?

dosraider · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 3:56 am Post subject:

It can handlle files larger than 4G.
Better and safer HD writing/ reading.
Better multitasking.
Good server features.
Doesn't hang so easely as '98
Reasonable system recovery
Is protecting itself more than '98 (even don't talk about '95 here !)
and so on.....
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The latter NT's (read as W2000 / XP's) are allover improved towards '98.
But are system resource consuming.

Gamer_V · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:41 am Post subject:

But for games... if it wasn't for games personal computers would still be a 386.5 Doesn't seem that useful...

GameMaster.EXE · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 12:02 pm Post subject:

Who here has heard of W95c? OSR2.5 I don't think it exists, but I came across something about on the net and I need more info about it. Perhaps I will upgrade.............

dosraider · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 12:15 pm Post subject:

W95osr2.5 excists, but ity is more an upgrade, here you find the info about it:
click>HERE<

THX dosraider. Laughing

GameMaster.EXE · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 12:35 pm Post subject:

Your link didn't help that much, but thanks anyway. I've decided not to take chances and stick with W95b.

I have another problem too: I accesed dos to find out which version I have but it tells me Windows 95 4.00.1111 How can I get it to tell me the dos version number?

dosraider · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 12:47 pm Post subject:

That IS your dos version.
You can't have dos6.x on a fat32 system.
On win98SE you get with the ver command:
windows 98 version 4.10.2222
yep.

GameMaster.EXE · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 1:23 pm Post subject:

So your saying I have dos7.0? 7.1?

dosraider · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 1:49 pm Post subject:

Officialy you have :
Windows 95 4.00.1111
That is your dos version, the Disk Operating System your W95 need to run and operate.
To be honest I don't know what unofficial dos this is , can be dos ?? ( and I'm too lazy to look it up, maybe someone else ?)

Officialy on win98SE i have:
windows 98 version 4.10.2222
unofficialy known as dos 7.(FYI:your W95 won't operate on it !)

There is a freeware dos derivated from it known as:
dos7.10.(also with FAT32 support and some further development , not supported by MS).

hehe GameMaster.EXE, you have something with OS's , don't you ?