Mr. Ancient I Am!
Mr. Ancient I Am!
Call me archaic, but I think there should be some advice in how to get games to work in Windows 98.
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Yeah, there'd be more support for 98/98SE but most of the errors can be solved by pretty basic shit (EMS memory, DOS mode and sound pretty much the only 3 things that (rarely) cause any trouble) so the demand for support is pretty low. If 98SE was as hard to run as, say, XP, then we'd definitely have a support section, but as I said, there isn't much made after '84 that Win98 can't run. It's really an excellent OS.
Pretty much MS-DOS 7.10, that's what Windows 98 runs on top of. When you run a DOS game in Windows 98, you're running it using MS-DOS 7.10!
Windows XP is based on OS/2 and only offers a limited functionality DOS emulator called NTVDM. That's why Windows XP needs more support, it has no DOS foundation like Windows 98 does.
Windows XP is based on OS/2 and only offers a limited functionality DOS emulator called NTVDM. That's why Windows XP needs more support, it has no DOS foundation like Windows 98 does.