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I was just wondering if windows98 would be a better OS for a gaming comp, then winxp?
And is one limited on the hardware and software that is compatible with windows98?

lol...that caught my eye too but "to each his own"

Some of us go back aways. There are a lot of neat Old Dos Games that don't work in XP.

Here is a link

One I have spent hours on is Heartlight P.C. Its a puzzle solving game. You would put Windows 98 in Dos mode and play away. The old dos games are a different flavor than the games sold today. Pinball machines are gone and slot machines don't pay out coins any more when you hit a jack pot I guess I'm getting old

Also Windows 98 is no resource hog. I'm tempted to install Windows 98 on a 512 meg pen drive and boot to usb on one of our work computers--a 98 splash screen on an XP machine would make my boss do a double take. April Fools day isn't far away

I apparently havent experienced the problems with XP that you must have, its been solid for me on both 32 bit and 64 bit machines. I havent had the crashes and lockups that would cause me to label it unstable. I use my machine for gaming, network/internet server, video editing, pretty much everything and its never been unstable or lacked performance. I havent had the opportunity to try XP64 yet but i do look forward to testing it. It will eventually become necessary once the development of 64 bit apps increases. I havent done the research on it so i wonder if a 32 bit app will run on a 64 bit OS? I've been meaning to try the 64 bit turbolinux distro too, its suppose to be as solid as red hat.

I can't stop laughing, this thread started Feb 9th and went dead, then opheaches jumped on it March 28 and it really came to "life." It kind of reminds me of that post of Lilpink's from ages back that someone posted to and got her all embarrased.

The Windows 98 segment was so dead that I was thinking that PC Guy might close it out.

Then I notice the XP Windows 2000 discussion


Talk about chasing a tangent

You did catch my interest though, what 64 bit apps are out for consumption right now?