DOS Games Discussion

GameMaster.EXE · Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 9:04 am Post subject: Xp or 95?

Lately I've been putting plans together to buy a WinXp laptop. Currently I am using a bulky 486 PC running Win95 OSR2. It is very unstable and crashes often, but it does pretty good with dos games. But WinXp has a disadvantage too. No dos. DOSbox to the rescue. But still, some games aren't compatible or they have problems with Xp. So, what do you think? Stay with 95, or switch to Xp?

dosraider · Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 10:09 am Post subject:

Xp is the most stable (win) OS you can get now.
Learn how to use dosbox correctly and it runs 90 % of the dosgames.
Another 5 % can use ports.
The other 5 %: VPC ( but have to say you can play all the games on VPC,as you can use it to run all dos OS, win3.11,win95,win98 and even win ME)
If you want a easy going XP best has a 1024Mb ram on it.....

GameMaster.EXE · Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 10:45 am Post subject:

@#$%^&*

dosraider · Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 11:33 am Post subject:

GameMaster.EXE · Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 11:35 am Post subject:

Look who's talking

jmmijo · Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 11:45 am Post subject:

Since you have an old 486 based laptop, stick with 95 as it seems to run fine on that machine, albeit, with the occasional lockups and all Wink

Myself, I wouldn't even place 95 on it, instead, I'd turn it into an old Dos5/6-Win3.xx machine just to run old DOS and Win16 games on Shit-Eating Grin

GameMaster.EXE · Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 11:50 am Post subject:

I guess I didn't explain clearly at first.......

I DON'T have a laptop, I'm PLANNING to get one.

My W95 is on a regular PC

*sigh*

jmmijo · Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 12:12 pm Post subject:

Sorry about that, yes I didn't read it too well Wink

I've now had some coffee to help out, so then, the question remains. Are you getting a current type notebook ?!?

Even one that's only a 2~3 years old has features and devices that you need a more up to date OS, say Win 2000/XP installed on to use all the devices.

In this case the idea of using VPC or Dosbox makes more sense, unless you want to partition the HD and install say 95/98 on one and XP on the other.

GameMaster.EXE · Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 12:58 pm Post subject:

Thanks. You were very helpful.

Unlike someone that also posted here I know........... Suspicious

486 player · Gaming Demi-god Joined: 18 Sep 2002 Posts: 1085

Have both.

GameMaster.EXE · Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 1:23 pm Post subject:

lol...... yeah good idea

julie124 · Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 2:04 pm Post subject:

I have xp and no problems yet.. * knocks on wood*

Kazer0 · Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 4:05 pm Post subject:

GameMaster.EXE · Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 4:52 pm Post subject:

Thanks.

Sovi3t · Member Joined: 25 Jun 2005 Posts: 13

Couldn't you just buy a WinXP lappy but keep using the old computer for DOS games? Windows 95 itself is very stable, you probably just need to format and reinstall windows 95 (too much junk on hard drive?).