🚀 go-pugleaf

On 14 Apr 1997 20:27:50 GMT, "Greg Cisko"
<gci...@nOsPaMconcentric.net> wrote:

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>Olin K. McDaniel <omcd...@flosc.net> wrote in article
><33524ed...@news.gabn.net>...
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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. 

Hmm, I'm running my system with both DOS 6.22 and Win95 in dual-boot.
With the following lines added to my msdos.sys, I get a menu when
starting Win95 that let's me select which OS to boot:
[Options]
BootMulti=1
BootGUI=1
BootMenu=1
BootMenuDefault=1
BootMenuDelay=60
Network=0

That gives the the same menu as if I pressed F8, I just don't have to
press F8 here in the right second.
To me, this runs perfectly. I wouldn't trade it for anything else.
When booting to DOS, I have another DOS-boot-menu that lets me select
different autoexec.bat's and config.sys's. (with or without EMM386 and
so).
I agree that I could get my DOS games running in Win95 or DOS 7.0 as
well, but why should I care about how to run them in DOS 7 if I can
run the original?

I've found out why I had trouble with that dual boot on the other PC
in our home. It's a different version of Win95 (OEM). My Win95 OEM
here is about a year old and runs fine. The latest one doesn't seem to
like that dual-boot to DOS...

>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

Agreed. No discussion about that.

Jan