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original win98 games
Flippertie:
Off topic but:
If you're trying to set up a '98 machine you might find this amusing:
"Man upgrades Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 [video]"
Guy started with DOS 5, and upgraded to Win 1.0 and on through Win 7. Stunning thing is that a couple of games he installed were still playable 23 virtual years later.
Now i'm an oldie - (once tried to use a windows 2 machine, and fell back to Dos as more efficient) - but I've never even seen a screen shot of windows 1.0 before....
techidave:
I hadn't seen a picture of Win 1 or 2 either. I started out with windows 3.0 and DOS 5. At work we actually had DOS 3.3 installed with no windows.
Flippertie:
Win 3.0/3.1 was the first version of windows that made any real commercial impact. Before that (91? 92?) I was coding COBOL on HP3000 minis. Z-fold green and white paper and line printers..... And we'd ride mastodons to work...
Ath:
I recently setup a virtual 98 and am wanting to find the games.
-techidave (March 12, 2011, 02:50 PM)
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Do you have a special purpose for that virtual? I can't see much use for it, besides the quick boot-time on modern hardware, but usually more modern virtual machines, like those running WinXP, revive from paused state quick enough and have a bigger feature-set and matureness over W98. :-\
techidave:
No special purpose Ath. Just did it for kicks more than anything else. Probably won't use much at all if any. I don't think I had done a windows 98 install for about 5 years, so it was good experience :huh: :lol:
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