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Postby Gunny04 » Wed Jan 18, 2006 5:37 pm

Alright, I know.... its stone age but I found a 98SE Disk in my dads disk things, and was wondering if its worth sticking on my new drive (Maxtor 120gb registers as 114gb) and run it ONLY when I wanna use my gameport wheel, Would this work? Because XP obviously doesnt get along with those things called gameports.... Found that out the hard way! If it could work I will install, in the mean time I'll keep the disk nearby! Cheers, Gunny
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Re: Windows 98SE

Postby Gunny04 » Wed Jan 18, 2006 5:51 pm

Mod might wish to move this, This belongs in Software! Duh...... *kicks self* Cheers, Gunny
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Re: Windows 98SE

Postby legoalex2000 » Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:00 pm

but anyway, be caeful, versions below Win2000 cannot read drives above 80 or 120gb. something like that.

NT definetly cannot.

just warning ya!

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(PS gunny, don't worry if it's in the wrong forum, the mods check these places over and over for this kind of stuff ;))
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Re: Windows 98SE

Postby Gunny04 » Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:05 pm

Yeah I know, Well my drive should be fine for 98, But I need to get this wheel to work, I love it, and with semis and Driver 3 how do I drive? Keyboard sucks for these things, thanks for the heads up though! Cheers, Gunny
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Re: Windows 98SE

Postby 4_Series_Scania » Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:13 pm

Another issue, Windows 98 will not work happily with more than 512MB RAM......  ;)
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Re: Windows 98SE

Postby Gunny04 » Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:16 pm

Hmmm thats interesting, pull a stick out everytime I wanna boot it? or is their a fix to this? I'll install it sometime tonight if I Can manage it on this comp! Cheers, Gunny
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Re: Windows 98SE

Postby congo » Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:34 am

XP has no problem at all with the gameport interface. I've been running gameport joysticks on XP for years.
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Re: Windows 98SE

Postby Gunny04 » Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:41 pm

Hmmm weird, I cant get 98SE To start up, not a boot disk any help? Cheers, Gunny

Edit: The Setup says something about installing it in DOS.... how do you start up dos in XP? Cheers!
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