First post, by Gareth_Legacy
Hello all.
For years I've had a big collection of DOS and early Windows games. The more time goes on, the more of a hassle it is to get these games to work correctly, as we all no doubt know. 😀 There's classics I simply cannot live without (The Need For Speed SE, Star Wars: Dark Forces, the Redneck Rampage Series, One Must Fall 2097, Rise Of The Triad, Hellbender and Monster Truck Madness just to name a few).
Granted, thanks to the awesomeness that is DOSBox and VDMSound, I've gotten quite a few of these to become playable on my current PC. But recently, I've got an itch of nostalgia reading various articles about the history of Windows. I remember back when Windows 95 was popular, and me and my friends would take turns playing all sorts of PC games. I then began to think about building a machine just for Windows 95 and my older games.
I have two hard drives in my PC: a 200GB Maxtor 7200rpm drive, and a 40GB Western Digital 7200rpm drive. My specs are as follows:
AMD Athlon XP 2800+
A7N8X-X w/ nForce2 chipset
2x 512MB PC3200 DDR RAM
MSI GeForce 6600GT AGP 8x
Windows XP Professional SP2
Which brings me to my question for you guys:
Would it be possible for me to do a clean FAT32 format with Windows 95 SR 2.5 on my 40GB drive to play all my older games on? It's currently an NTFS drive in XP holding some backup files. I've been wondering if I can put Windows 95 on there without it conflicting with XP, and boot into that drive on startup for all my "retro" needs. Will there be any conflicts with 95 and my specs? Will Windows 95 be stable enough to run all my older games in this situation? Any help would be much appreciated.