This may help anyone who's running WindowsME and wants
to make a boot disk this guy in England has done it.
Here is a link to his home page.
http://members.tripod.co.uk/bootdiskmaker/enter.htm
I've tested it, it works, I cannot say that I like it.
I found out about it from www.Winfiles.com and it's
also on www.tweekfiles.com web site. (I think I could
do better but who has the time to do everything?)
--- Todd Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Really? I guess your install of 98 was really hosed
> then, my expierence is
> that ME is slow and buggy. ME really falls apart
> with Dos with the newer
> old dos games, like Mechwarrior 2, Mechwarrior
> Mechanaries, etc. They
> simply lock the computer up. Also, games like Dune
> 2 and Master of Orion
> which require lots of open conventional memory won't
> run either. Dos
> programs that don't have a lot of requirements or
> are too complex seem to
> run OK. What really drives me nuts about ME is that
> they will not let you
> boot into dos, nor can you even make a system disk!
> You are forced to try
> to run these games with Windows in the background.
> The best you can do is
> create an emergancy bootdisk, then delete and edit
> all the files that ME
> puts on there and then you kind of have a bootdisk,
> but that is pain in the
> butt.
>
> Todd
>
> At 05:02 AM 2/5/01 -0800, you wrote:
> >Well, yes, I like it. It crashes about 1/4 as much
> as when I used 98, 98SE,
> >and it runs the old DOS games like Tank and
> Asteroid. I will be
> > unhappy if they take DOS out, the old DELTREE
> command
> >will take care of things sometimes, when nothing
> else will. I like ME`s
> >the quicker boot time the best.
> >Steve Larson
> >Redondo Beach, California
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Todd Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 8:17 PM
> >Subject: Re: OT: Going semi-digital; advice needed
> >
>
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