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Got a machine that is running Windows 98 SE and is a:<BR><BR>P4 2.0GHz<BR>1.0GB RAM<BR>RAID 80GB hard drive.<BR><BR>The machine needs to run 98 because or a old DOS Point of Sale program. When the ...
I regularly play a bunch of my old DOS favorites, like Wolfenstein, Commander Keen series, etc. and have never done a thing to my AE.Bat file. They all play just fine running in a DOS box.
DOS is gone now. Most old DOS programs lost Windows compatibility after the release of Windows 98, and Microsoft even held a mock funeral for the once-dominant PC operating system about a decade ago.
Are Windows XP's new features worth the cost of upgrading? Find out how Windows XP measures up against Windows 98 and Me. Written by Greg Shultz, Contributor June 10, 2001 at 8:30 p.m. PT ...
DOS hides and Windows flies Even though we were up to Windows 3.0 by now, most of our coverage was devoted to DOS and the applications you ran on it. MS-DOS 5.0 arrived soon after I started, and ...
A Windows 98 system can not only run 16- and 32-bit Windows games ranging from the OG Win32G API all the way up to DirectX 9, but it can also boot or restart into pure MS-DOS mode to play classic ...
Windows 98 launched accompanied by much fanfare on June 25, 1998, becoming available in over 40 countries across the globe, and going on sale in more than 12,000 retail outlets in the US. This was ...
Windows 98 arrived while I was working at HomePC Magazine, and, in a way, this was perfect timing. If Windows 95 was Windows' global coming-out party, Windows 98 was the platform most eagerly ...
Windows Millenium Edition (Windows ME) paralleled Windows 2000 as a consumer-first operating system still tied to the legacy of MS-DOS, but didn’t exactly overwhelm users with its new consumer ...
The evolution of Windows Windows 1.0 WinWorld/winworldpc.com This is the version that started it all. Windows 1.0 debuted in 1985 and was designed to be a GUI to be used in conjunction with MS-DOS.