Jorpho wrote:The NTVDM is notoriously incompatible if the end goal includes running anything DOS-based. […]
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Ampera wrote:it does have just a few compatibility issues with SOME games, however I am sure they can be fixed.
The NTVDM is notoriously incompatible if the end goal includes running anything DOS-based.
Ampera wrote:Another idea is NT4, which while older than the two, still has good game support, with it's only major flaw being no PnP support.
Didn't DirectX support under NT4 end at DirectX 3? And that's assuming you can find decent drivers for the hardware one wants to use.
Heck, you can go real crazy and try ReactOS.
Yes, that is an option if the end goal is to go real crazy.
Funny as Civnet worked just fine for me. So did most of the Sim games, but I'm not law, I haven't had a Win2k build in years (Which I cry myself to sleep about daily)
And yeah, I guess NT4 doesn't support anything better than Dx3. Huh.
And I thought the ReactOS kernel was Linux. Huh.
TBH, Go with a dual boot, it's piss easy to set up, and will give you Windows 98SE for games, and Windows 2k for more serious and modern applications (And a dreamy UI)
And Phil, you broke my heart when you didn't have Win2k as an option 🙁 (Jk, love you)
WinME is a, 🤣 IH AVE WIND OS ME HAHA HA, until you realize that ME isn't as bad as everybody goes on about. The main reason nobody liked it is that there was no reason to get it. Windows XP was a year away, Power users were sticking with Windows 2000, and Windows ME didn't do a whole lot more than Windows 98SE. XP is the legend of Windows operating systems, with a not that bad near to Windows 2000's excellence.
Wait, when I typed that I felt the need to point out that excellence is a relative term. Microsoft has never released an operating system that anybody even loved. They had some shitshows like Vista and Windows 8, and some decent releases like most of the NT3.1 - 5.1 lineup, and some really craptastic dick moves with Windows 10 (Server 2016 is alright, but it still has some bullshit you need to spend turning off) but I don't look that fondly at almost any Windows operating systems. If you want to talk nostalgia, I am nostalgic for the time that windows didn't stick a cattle brander directly to your face, and instead just applied a small soldering iron to your arm.
Rant over, my tl;dr is that you should dual boot. I found the 98SE part worked well for games, and the NT5 part worked well for utilities and interfacing with more modern operating systems (removable storage and whatnot)