Windows 95

Just some pictures 😀

Very nice build!

I'd considered that. Isn't dual-booting buggy on Windows 95 versions after RTM?

Cheers Mau1wurf! 😀

Pictures coming, my camera is still charging.

DVD burner and Quantum Fireball in a 486? Sounds awesome. 😁

The DVD burner is a stand-in CD drive, it's quiet, and spins up pretty quickly.

I had a more authentic Creative 8x CD-ROM drive in there originally, but it packed it in, started throwing "General read failure" errors all over the place.

20120212-IMG_7247.jpg by squallstrife, on Flickr

20120212-IMG_7251.jpg by squallstrife, on Flickr

20120212-IMG_7250.jpg by squallstrife, on Flickr

20120212-IMG_7244.jpg by squallstrife, on Flickr

20120212-IMG_7248.jpg by squallstrife, on Flickr

I moved the IDE cable out of the way for a better view of the CPU, that's why it's hanging off to the right not connected to anything! 😀

Nice work!

I am running a DX4 Overdrive in my 486. I'd recommend putting a small fan on it as they do get quite hot, in my case hot enough to crash the system (leave it off for an hour or so and it would come good).

I'm curious who was the dude that gave you the stuff? 😁

T'was Gas Lee. One awesome dude.

Ah yes I've plundered his stash before 😀 Very nice bloke.

Looks like a sweet rig. Wish I could get hold of some AT style cases myself. 🙁

Fine looking machine with lots of goodies inside 😀

And just in case anybody is interested, my config.sys and autoexec.bat

CONFIG.SYS

1LASTDRIVE=Z
2SWITCHES=/F
3DOS=HIGH,UMB
4FILES=60
5FCBS=1,0
6STACKS=0,0
7
8DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS /NUMHANDLES=128 /TESTMEM:OFF /Q
9DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM RAM M3 A=64 H=128 D=256 AUTO NOTR
10DEVICE=C:\MAX\DOSMAX.EXE N+ P- R- U02 U08 U09 U0A U0B U0C U0D U0E U70 U72 U73 U74 U76 U77
11DEVICEHIGH /L:1=C:\DOS\UIDEJR.SYS /D:MSCD000
12DEVICEHIGH /L:1=C:\WINDOWS\IFSHLP.SYS
13
14SHELL=C:\MAX\SHELLMAX.COM /N+ /P- /R- /S- C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /E:1280 /P

AUTOEXEC.BAT

1@echo off
2REM ===== Environment =====
3SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4
4SET ULTRASND=240,3,3,12,12
5
6SET SOUND=C:\SBPRO
7SET ULTRADIR=C:\ULTRASND
8
9SET PATH=C:\ULTRASND;C:\NET;C:\;C:\DOS;C:\SBPRO;C:\DA51;C:\XTGOLD;C:\WINDOWS
10SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
11
12REM ===== Sound Blaster Pro 2 =====
13C:\SBPRO\SBP-SET /M:12 /VOC:12 /CD:7 /FM:12
14
15REM ===== Gravis Ultrasound 3.4 =====
16C:\ULTRASND\ULTRINIT.EXE -dj
17
18REM ===== Other Drivers =====
19LH C:\WINDOWS\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD000 /L:G
20LH C:\DOS\ctmouse.exe /R44
21C:\MAX\ENVIMAX.COM N+
22
23REM ===== Start Networking =====
24C:\WINDOWS\NET START
25
26menu

SquallStrife wrote:

I'd considered that. Isn't dual-booting buggy on Windows 95 versions after RTM?

Get system commander. Problem solved. I've used that since the days of 95 on to multiboot systems, though it's very dated now, it's great for systems with a primary fat16 or fat32 partition.

jaqie wrote:

SquallStrife wrote:

I'd considered that. Isn't dual-booting buggy on Windows 95 versions after RTM?

Get system commander. Problem solved. I've used that since the days of 95 on to multiboot systems, though it's very dated now, it's great for systems with a primary fat16 or fat32 partition.

I can second that. I've used system commander on an old Athlon system running WIN98SE, XP, DOS3.11, and Linux (don't remember which distro) partitions. I loved it and it was very stable.
EDIT: I used WIN95 not WIN98SE at first.