I bought Windows 95 and Windows 98 so that I could use them to set up retro gaming PCs.
Is there any reason to get Windows Millennium, or would Win95 & Win98 satisfy all of my Win9x retro gaming requirements?
Thanks, regards, Robert.
Think that for gaming 98SE runs the same games as ME
Water flows down the stream
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WinME cripples DOS support (well it tries to) and it annoyingly blanks out your autoexec.bat (this was annoying especially for installing Sound Blaster Live!'s DOS sound emulation tsr), oh it also won't let you make bootable disks that aren't a windows startup disk.
Even in 2000 there was no reason to get windows m.e 😁
(Regarding the OP) I guess that's a no then! 🤣
No its not worth getting Windows ME. Windows ME from what I have heard crashes alot more than windows 98 Se and also its alot stupider with hardware . As someone mentioned it cripples dos support but there is a way to add dos support to winME but its more trouble than its worth.
It's prettier than 98 though!!!! !!!!!!! 😉
Although, you can get the fantabulous Windows 98 SE Unofficial Service Pack and enjoy the win2k theme!
http://exuberant.ms11.net/98sesp.html
swaaye, thanks very much for the Win98 SP link. I'm definitely going to give that a try.
Just go to the MSFN forums. There are tons of addons/updates to 98SE to bring it up to date visually and security wise (although obviously MS doesn't provided patches anymore.
One reason to consider Win ME, and probably the only reason you ever should, is that it is not limited to 127GB hard disk partition sizes. In theory, it can support the 2TB that FAT32 is capable of. Whether your motherboard can support it (requires ATA-6) is another issue.
wrote:One reason to consider Win ME, and probably the only reason you ever should, is that it is not limited to 127GB hard disk partition sizes. In theory, it can support the 2TB that FAT32 is capable of. Whether your motherboard can support it (requires ATA-6) is another issue.
Even then, it'll still freak out when you write that mysterious byte that suddenly triggers massive data loss on all of your partitions on that big drive. Ditto for Windows 2000.
I learned that the hard way 😒
Then perhaps it would be best simply to buy a 48-bit LBA PCI ATA controller or use a motherboard with one built in. The driver and 3rd party tools will take care of the rest.
Very interesting info regarding ATA etc, thanks a lot for sharing that info.
