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Title: Is It Possible 2 Run Win98se?
Post by: Casper1786 on March 29, 2004, 06:57:00 PM

well my PC has Win98SE, an well it's a More supported Os, and I was just wondering if any1has ever been able 2 run Windows 98 on their XBOX. this question only came up when I was looking through the tuts on XBOX-Scene.com and found a Dead tut called 'Getting Windows 98 running in Gentoox under Bochs in 36 easy steps', also if no1s done it, what has stoped som1 from doing this?

Title: Is It Possible 2 Run Win98se?
Post by: Rustmonkey on March 29, 2004, 08:38:00 PM

It can be done, but it either has to be run under bochs (or any other dos emulator) or under Linux... then, it runs INCREDIBLY SLOW.  The install process is also a big pain... it takes awhile and you must convert part of you HDD to FAT32 instead of FATX... but it is possible.

Title: Is It Possible 2 Run Win98se?
Post by: EmperorPsiblade on March 30, 2004, 02:48:00 AM

i think people want WinXP more..... Windows98SE is NOT a well supported OS anymore.... ppl are movin on.....

yes it can be done but just really slowly under a emulator in bochs

Title: Is It Possible 2 Run Win98se?
Post by: Code-X on March 30, 2004, 10:24:00 AM

Yes, It works, Done it a few Days ago, but as Rustmonkey said, it's very slow. I've managed to run the XP Setup Disk but havn't tried installing yet.

Title: Is It Possible 2 Run Win98se?
Post by: GameDTX on March 30, 2004, 12:56:00 PM

if its really slow, then its pointless, nowon wants a slow pc, just imagin how slow xp would run.. omg  <_<

Title: Is It Possible 2 Run Win98se?
Post by: fire2501 on April 18, 2004, 12:24:00 PM

98s not that old buddy.. ive got a p4 2.8ghz runnin windows 98 se.. and it boots in 9 seconds right to the desktop no probs... alot faster then xp on a super fast computer and runs almost anygames way easier with lower specs becuase of the ram and processor usage xp uses... <_<

Title: Is It Possible 2 Run Win98se?
Post by: EmperorPsiblade on April 18, 2004, 03:02:00 PM

that is just sad...  :lol:

go out and buy a copy of Windows XP.... jeez  <_< no one wants to know that ur using a Pentium 4 with Windows 98 (WTF?)

Title: Is It Possible 2 Run Win98se?
Post by: Videogamebuyer14 on May 01, 2004, 08:11:00 PM

QUOTE (EmperorPsiblade @ Apr 18 2004, 03:59 PM)

that is just sad...  :lol: go out and buy a copy of Windows XP.... jeez  <_< no one wants to know that ur using a Pentium 4 with Windows 98 (WTF?)

 Yeah, that is pretty messed up. Win2k is awesome.

Title: Is It Possible 2 Run Win98se?
Post by: Aron Parsons on May 02, 2004, 09:13:00 PM

It's somewhat unbelieveable that people still run an OS like 98 these days; it might be understandable for legacy games, but really, why play games from 6 years ago?  Step into the future.... <_<

Title: Is It Possible 2 Run Win98se?
Post by: ideas_man69 on May 24, 2004, 06:27:00 AM

QUOTE

98s not that old buddy.. ive got a p4 2.8ghz runnin windows 98 se.. and it boots in 9 seconds right to the desktop no probs... alot faster then xp on a super fast computer and runs almost anygames way easier with lower specs becuase of the ram and processor usage xp uses...

windows 98 came out in 1997 which almost makes it about 7 years old. Thats like running windows 3.1 on a p3 when 98 was out. the thing is, windows 98 doesn't use much of the hardware you own - you're 'wasting' your hardware. windows 98 only supports PROPERLY up to 512mb ram too.

the win2k kernal (win2k, winxp and win2k3) are the best windows made up to date.

Title: Is It Possible 2 Run Win98se?
Post by: Potato Bob on May 30, 2004, 07:38:00 AM

How bot this

Very minimal linux built for emultation of WINXPE

will this work?

Title: Is It Possible 2 Run Win98se?
Post by: Miked2003 on May 30, 2004, 03:19:00 PM

I could see why he would want to run Win98SE with xbox...
Windowsxp is a memory hog. 64 MB of RAM is not enough to run WindowsXP.
So running win98SE is actually a good idea!

Title: Is It Possible 2 Run Win98se?
Post by: bucko on May 31, 2004, 10:38:00 AM

Windows CE runs on xbox, but windows 98se for PC? Were in the 21st centurary now i here you cry.

Title: Is It Possible 2 Run Win98se?
Post by: c-2 on May 31, 2004, 11:02:00 AM

actually if u tweak XP with some knowledge (not just TweakUI) u can make it run quite well on lesser computers .. just the other day i installed it on a p233 (ya thatz just one P ) with 64megs of ram and it runs great .. takes skill i guess :]

Title: Is It Possible 2 Run Win98se?
Post by: bucko on June 01, 2004, 10:41:00 AM

yer, hence www.blackviper.com