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First post, by kukus444

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I have decided to make a dual boot, but what OS do you recommend, what is the best for old games?

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Reply 1 of 3, by Snover

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Win98SE. 'Nuff said.

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Reply 2 of 3, by Nicht Sehr Gut

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If you're talking about DOS-Only titles, Win95B or higher will give you FAT32 support so you can have a good-sized partition without wasting tons of space.

If you're including Windows titles, I would say either version of Win98.

Word-of-Warning: A lot of soundcards lose their DosBox support in Win98 due to the usage of "WDM" drivers instead of "VXD" type drivers.

In other words: if you have a choice between VXD and WDM drivers for Win98, you should choose VXD for maximum DOS game compatibility (choose WDM for performance and stability).

Reply 3 of 3, by Snover

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Hmm.. that's interesting. I didn't know that. 😀

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