First post, by modul8r
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Hello,
I put together a "retro gaming PC" with a Voodoo3 3500 16MB AGP and Sound Blaster AWE64 ISA to run DOS games mostly, as well as older Windows 95/98 games.
I'm not sure if I should run DOS on one hard drive, and Windows on another (or separate partitions), or if I would be OK just running 95 or 98, since you can "drop to DOS" in those Operating Systems.
I guess I need clarification on exactly what the difference is between running "true DOS" (i.e. 6.22) vs. whatever version of DOS Windows 95/98 include.
When I started this project, I said to myself "I should use 98 since it's newer than 95, and you can shut down into DOS mode", but I ran into various problems running some DOS games that suggested I needed to run those games in 6.22. So I'm not sure what the best approach is. For example, it was very easy to install the sound blaster driver for 6.22 - I downloaded the software from soundblaster.com. But when I tried to install this DOS version in Windows 98 (after "dropping to DOS") it wouldn't install because it saw Windows 98 instead of DOS.
Related questions that come to mind:
Is 95/98 DOS still "true DOS" or is it a shell like XP?
What exactly is the difference between 6.22, and the DOS version that comes with 95/98?
I heard there was a way to run 95/98 and "give" DOS its own autoexec.bat and config.sys files, instead of sharing them with Windows. Any comments on this?
My goal is to make it as easy as possible to switch between games, so that's why I'd like to only run one OS if possible instead of having to reboot and then choose the appropriate hard drive or partition. But I'm not sure if old DOS games require 6.22, for example.
Thanks in advance!