Lappy-Windows 7 Professional
Gaming PC-Ubuntu 11.04, but will be replacing it with 7 Professional 64 bit. I have plans to set up a secondary boot drive (my primary boot drive is a 64G SSD) so I can reinstall Ubuntu and throw XP 64 bit on there as well for the sake of compatibility.
I have programs that don't work in compatibility mode and don't boot in XP Mode. It's incredibly frustrating, especially when I want to use these programs randomly and just have to accept they're not going to work out with 7. It's a shame because even as an early Vista adopter (not by my own free will, my laptop came with it initially) I fell in love with 7 as soon as I switched and my only real complaint is the lack of compatibility for some of the programs I want to use (most of them work just fine). It's a rock-solid OS and is blazing fast, auto-driver download and install is incredibly convenient, and throwing the superbar on the left side of a widescreen display affords so much more screen real estate. Oh well, I'll just quasi-triple boot on my desktop and problem solved
I'm pretty much all Windows 7 Home Premium at this point.
My old laptop still runs XP, but the reason for that is just a combination of the fact that I haven't had time to upgrade it and I just don't use my laptop that much anymore now that Android phones take care of most of my computing/info consumption tasks away from my desktop.
kingmohd84 wrote:i am tired of hunting for winXP SP3 at a good price point,
shall i just get win7 off the shelf without worrying about running '98 pc games?
That's a good plan. If you come across a 9x game you really want to play, cheap P3s are easy to come by and will run 98SE easily.
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I've got several computers. One is Win 7 64-bit home premium, one is Win 98 SE, one is Win 98, one is PC-BSD, one is freedos, and one is deli linux.
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Hey, that's one I hadn't heard of. Looks like a DSL equivalent based on Arch. Glad to hear that, because DSL is a pile of shit if you try to install it on a hard drive. I've been running DSL on my 98SE box, but I'll have to give this one a try. I've been playing with Arch more recently too, so that will be fun.
Question, why do you keep a 98 box and a 98SE box around?
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kingmohd84 wrote:i am tired of hunting for winXP SP3 at a good price point,
shall i just get win7 off the shelf without worrying about running '98 pc games?
That's a good plan. If you come across a 9x game you really want to play, cheap P3s are easy to come by and will run 98SE easily.
the problem is not te hardware, its the software
xp is almost as expensive as win7
i think win 98 is due late nxt year
Hatta wrote:Question, why do you keep a 98 box and a 98SE box around?
No cool reason. I just don't feel like upgrading the 98 machine. It's an old pentium mmx I think. So is the deli linux machine.
I'm sort of collecting old pcs to play a big doom match someday.
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Yeah, most games will run on either 98 or 98SE or even 95. Unless there's some specific bug or feature you're coming up against it's probably not worth doing.
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