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Olin K. McDaniel <omcd...@flosc.net> wrote in article
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> I found out shortly after Win 95 came out, it was the most corrupting
> thing to my DOS installation, so I reformatted and created two

If you install Win95 into C:\Windows where you had an old version
of windows, then yes it does overwrite DOS & Win3.x. Just install
into C:\Win95 instead and you will have OLD-DOS available from 
the F8 option on bootup. 

> completely independent and fully isolated operating systems.  That way
> I can keep all my DOS programs in a pure DOS environment, DOS 6.22,
> and any programs that need to run under Win95 are installed and run in
> that environment.  It works fine for me.

The DOS version of Win95 is just fine for games. There really is no
need for DOS6.22 if you have Win95. You do not run DOS games
in a DOS window. In some cases (like back to baghdad) you can
though. Rob Kim posted a great idea some time ago. Just make
a Win95 shortcut to COMMAND.COM. Then go to the section 
where you specify the individual CONFIG.SYS & AUTOEXEC.BAT
and load your CDrom, mouse and soundcard stuff in those 
sections. You can also make a shortcut for each DOS game with
these startup files specified. Each time you run the game the computer
re-boots & runs everything needed for the game. This is the things
that you would normaly put in your DOS config.sys & autoexec.
When you are done you re-boot back to Win95. Simple with 
some practice. 

As for DirectX 3 messing up DOS games... No way. Anyone
who thinks otherwise does not understand what is going on
with DOS/Win95. Period. Sorry to be blunt but that is how it
is.

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