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[stinkywizzleteats]

Originally Posted by Eagle of Fire

I do not have the expertise with Virtual PCs to be able to be of help for your particular problem... However, could I ask you why exactly you wish to have a virtual drive with Win98 when you are using Windows XP?

Windows XP is great to emulate Windows 98 and have good compatibility with that system. Usually one only need to go in the compatibility tab for the desired program and switch compatibility with Windows 98 to run said program.

To put it in short I'm sick and tired of making concessions because I'm trying to stick the square peg in the round hole. I'm sick of games that don't have music or glitch because they were never meant to be run in this OS. You're right a lot of games will run well in XP. Many will run almost OK and I'm tired of it.

The two specifically I'm into right now are Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries and Mechwarrior 3. With tweaking and a couple hours sunk into combing the net for troubleshoots and patches I was able to get both to install and run, only to have later missions in the game become unbeatable due to crashes. I'm sick of it.

WinXP does great with some games.

I have Magic The Gathering Shandalar running like a top on it. Diablo II is running like a top on it dunno if it was originally an XP release or what. Then you have a lot of no-music games. I believe Warhammer Shadow of the Horned Rat was one. Dungeons and Dragons Ravenloft Strahd's Possession was one. Dark Sun Shattered Lands was one also I believe. I find this unacceptable as the music often makes a game what it is. What would Mega Man, Ninja Gaiden or Final Fantasy have been without gaming music?

People try to band aid situations with Dosbox. Dosbox is a wonderful program. Its useability varies wildly. Some games its best to have a top of the line computer to bring the game up to normal speed. Some games music does not play. Lets be honest MS Dos was a B to play games in anyway with memory and other crashes the norm so I don't hate on DosBox but I want the real Operating Systems.

I am doing research on Dual Boot. I would be open to whatever gets me multiple operating systems.

I have WIN XP.

I want Win 98

Then I will look to trying to get MS Dos although I have some confusion as to if its bundled into Win 98.

Tired of dumping hours and hours into making these games work on operating systems they were never meant to run on. For every eureka game where everything works perfect there are 3 games that have no music, crash later in the game, don't have the video cut scenes, etc. Sorry to vent but I need to vent lol.