Reply 40 of 45, by markoldgamer
My hardware doesn't go back that far. The old machine is an AlthonXP 2000+, which is pretty modern by most of your standards even though its actually starting to get on a bit. I run Win2K and Win98 on it. I use Win2K as a file server platform for my main Win7 machine (PhenomII quad core based) where I can keep old stuff and back up the essential stuff. Win98 is there really only for one game, Jeff Waynes War of the Words. I am lucky enough to have bought it when it was new so I get to play it with the proper CD sound track (music), something that can't be done if I try and play it in a virtual machine or use a cracked copy of the software under a more recent version of Windows. For everything else I use virtual machines running under VirtualBox or I use Dosbox. In terms of operating systems I do go back a little. On my Win7 PC I've got XPMode running (not a patch on the real thing but OK for specific tasks) and then under VirtualBox I've got Win2K, Win98, Win95 and Dos 6.22 with Win 3.1 for workgroups and Win286. I don't do much with them, but now and again its nice to just run up Win286 for a quick game of Reversi or Taipeii, or even just to look at the old MSDos Executive interface and marvel at how simple it is and how little file managers in all operating systems have changed.