[ale] OT: Winxp Aside

[Greg]

and I 
installed Win98 (with NO updates and as an upgrade on a Win 95 install) on a old 
Celeron 600 MHz box just so that I could play most of my old (i.e. Win 95) 
games.  MS has NO backward compatibility, so all but a few of my games 
cannot be played on a "modern" box.  It's sad to have to have several 
installs for games, each dependant on the games "era".
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And that 
folks explains my attitude about M$haft.
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Greg 
Canter
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  size=2>-----Original Message-----From: ale-admin at ale.org 
  [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Kilroy, ChrisSent: 
  Monday, January 06, 2003 11:04 AMTo: 
  'ale at ale.org'Subject: RE: [ale] OT: Winxp 
Aside
  > ->Win98 is pretty much dead in 
  the water as far as M$ is ->concerned. But 
  it ->sure plays games well. <FONT 
  size=2>-> I dont think Win98 is a better gaming OS 
  than XP Pro.  Mostly because of memory issues.  If you have a decent 
  gaming box, you have at least 500mb of memory, and probably have at least 
  128mb on your video card.   Win98 is not gonna use that properly. 
  
  the ONLY reason i own a MS license is because of one of the 
  games i like to play, and it runs so much better on XP than 98 it isnt even 
  funny.  oh yeah and it actually can stay up for days in a row without 
  crashing.
  - ->My understanding is that the XP 
  Home upgrade will upgrade from 98. The ->XP Pro 
  upgrade will upgrade from win2k. To blow away a hosed partition 
  ->and reinstall using XP will require the full version. 
  -> ->Sadly, this is what 
  you want unless you want to install 98 and THEN <FONT 
  size=2>->upgrade to XP the next time the box gets fried. <FONT 
  size=2>-> ->You can get win2k from places like 
  HL Computer ($179-OEM). -> <FONT 
  size=2>->On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 19:26, David S. Jackson wrote: 
  ->> I have a friend whose existing Win98 fe 
  installation is ->pretty well and <FONT 
  size=2>->> truly hosed.  I recommended that he dump 98fe to 
  something ->a little more <FONT 
  size=2>->> stable, and XP was all there was in the store.  His 98 
  ->installation is ->> 
  so hosed that I don't think it would support an XP upgrade. <FONT 
  size=2>-> Can I just ->> reformat the 
  partition and install XP to a fresh partition ->and 
  let XP ->> ask me for an original 98 CD to prove 
  he qualifies for the upgrade? ->> Will the 
  upgrade version of XP even do that?  Or will it <FONT 
  size=2>->require that he ->> gets the "full 
  version" of XP? ->> <FONT 
  size=2>->> I don't want to make things any worse for him than they are, 
  so I'd ->> better know that info up front before 
  I wipe the partition ->for him.  :-) 
  ->> ->> TIA! 
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