Most people find that they don't need Windows 3.x, but a lot of software needs Windows 9x that won't work properly or at all in Windows NT and it's variants XP/2000/Vista/7 etcetera.
One example is Warcraft II Battle Net edition. A better example is Red Alert Command and Conquer I. Wolfenstein 3D and Blake Stone don't work properly in freedos needing either Windows 9x's version of DOS or MS-DOS. I hear about people needing Windows 9x for Garmin GPS software and Mapinfo. Well, Windows 98 second edition is fairly unstable. The ME version of Windows is also unstable and the version of Dos under it is kinda hokey I understand. Worse, 98SE is proprietary software which you are supposed to have a license for. Never mind that these days people tend to install 98SE under vmware and don't worry about licensing. ReactOS is not a replacement for Windows on top of DOS, it is a replacement for NT that may never become stable. I try to ask what is going to get done in the next release or when XYZ is going to get fixed and I get attacked. ReactOS is developing very slowly, there are not enough developers. It could take years to get to 0.5. There's no telling when 1.0 will come out. So, how are efforts to replace Windows 9x coming along? Theoretically, freedos could support an open source replacement. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
