Let's say I'm crazy for 2k Win98 and destruction, no hope for DOS games? [dos games] [dual boot]
Q: Maybe Im lame and I still will not play, but for now its the only reason I have a dual boot with.
I m thinking just say see ya partition on my 98, running two starts 2ks ( eliminating any for XP or so) but what if one day I cry and want to play dos games?
Re:VDMsound (http://www.ece.mcgill.ca/~vromas/vdmsound/)
Re:1. Format a floppy under w2k and it won't boot DOS because it looks for ntldr instead of io.sys. 2. The DOS 7.0 that's in win98 is improved over DOS 6.22, including R/W FAT32.
Re:<< It's worth keeping win98 running on one machine if for no other reasons than to format floppies and have DOS7 easily available. >>
dah, no! First of all, you can format floppies under W2K…and secondly, why in the hell would you want DOS 7 to be easily available? eww….
Re:Look for a program called (I think) VDMSound.
It's SoundBlaster support for WinNT and Win2K…free…
Re:<< Then again, I'll probably be running LInux too, and it can't read NTFS, can it? >>
It sort of can read it. But it really can't write it (at least with anything approaching reliability).
I used to triple boot Win2k, Win98, and Red Hat linux. But it was such a pain, and Win2k does everything I need plus has NEVER crashed on me. At least not yet, but it's been a few months now.
Re:I'm sure I can manage one measly partition for FAT
Then again, I'll probably be running LInux too, and it can't read NTFS, can it?
All these decisions.
I have to reinstall 98 this weekend since my work software FUDGED it up bigtime, so heck let's see what will happen if I accidentally just do 2000 only 
Re:<< Simplest to just boot with a DOS floppy that has the memory settings and drivers that your game needs. >>
But then you have to use a FAT file system instead of NTFS on at least part of your disk system. To truly "obliterate" Win98 and run only Win2K, go for the glory and run NTFS only! 
Re:Simplest to just boot with a DOS floppy that has the memory settings and drivers that your game needs. It's worth keeping win98 running on one machine if for no other reasons than to format floppies and have DOS7 easily available.
Re:You should be able to PLAY most if not all DOS games, but there won't be any SOUND unless you get a SoundBlaster emulation program, since NT (and Win2k) won't let the programs directly access the sound hardware. I forget what it's called but it costs $30 or $40.
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