<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(gregor @ Jan 16 2007, 12:29 PM) [snapback]275153[/snapback]</div>
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I'm just going to add a bit to the question.
i just finished upgrading my computer. Since it has a few glitches under Win98 (like wake up from standby mode doesn't work propperly) i was wondering if i should install win 2000. But now i heard win xp also supports fat 32. so my questions are:
If i install winXP and fat32 can i still run dos games in dos mode with no problem?
If i decide to install NTFS (is that the other partition type?!) i will probably need dosbox. Do dos games still have issues with it? What about AMD processors? Do they cause any problems with DOS games?
What about games that ran under win 98 and 95 ? how is that issue resolved in XP? i know some of them don't work in Win 2000.[/b]
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There's no DOS mode in Win2000/XP. With these systems you're stuck with emulation (DOSBox, Virtual PC or maybe VDMSound), then again it may be the only solution for a modern machine; Even if you install real DOS in a partition, you may have speed or video issues and you might very well be stuck without sound.
Win95/98 were only a graphical interface on top of a DOS v7 operating system so no wonder they were DOS compatible, but they were buggy and not only in your machine. After having used Win98 for many years I can't believe MS had the nerve to charge for it. WinXP on the contraty is a decently working system (in my limited experience) based on WinNT, not DOS, so that's why there's no so-called "DOS mode".