First post, by tcurt
Argh. Second try at this post.
I am decomissioning my Frankenstein PC that has had too many different internals and run everything from DOS, OS/2, and Linux. It is a mess inside after all these years and not worth the trouble to continue using. But is does have a 5.25 floppy that I am keeping with the appropriate connectors.
I now have two other running computers: a year old XP system with a external 3.5 floppy, and a working Win95 machine with internal 3.5 and empty drive bay space.
I have alot of DOS games, including several on 5.25 disks that I want to play. I plan to install the 5.25 floppy into the Win95 machine, because the XP machine doesn't really have any way to attach it easily, and I figure that the Win95 enviroment will be the most friendly. Mostly likely some will just play as is on the Win95 machine, but I would prefer to make permanent copies/images of my 5.25 disk games and then move them to whatever machine will play them best.
Is this a good plan? I don't want to invest any more money into old software/hardware like this. Any suggestions for the best software to make these 5.25 copies that I can either play as is or sneakernet them on 3.5 disks to my XP machine and run under DosBox, etc? Have I overlooked anything? Thanks!