Re: [Freedos-user] Made XP work okay...

2012-12-28 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 6:59 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: XP itself should run in it. The question if apps you will run under XP. As you mentioned, Firefox is a memory hog, but Opera is okay for very

Re: [Freedos-user] Made XP work okay...

2012-12-28 Thread dmccunney
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 6:59 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: XP itself should run in it. The question is apps you will run under XP. As you

Re: [Freedos-user] Made XP work okay...

2012-12-27 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 26-12-2012 11:58, Michael Robinson schreef: I've been studying Windows 7 verses Windows XP and honestly, it's a toss up. Both systems are bloated and complex. A ROM based dos system is more secure than even the typical Linux system and it's going to be light weight. That's not saying

[Freedos-user] Made XP work okay...

2012-12-26 Thread Michael Robinson
I got my K6-2 500 with 504 megs of ram running XP SP3 well enough by turning off the swap file. Don't let XP swap, Warcraft II works fine. The scsi hard drive, despite being a Seagate Cheetah, really slows the system down. I don't let my Linux firewall allow this old machine to access the Net,

Re: [Freedos-user] Made XP work okay...

2012-12-26 Thread Mark Brown
From: Michael Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2012 5:58 AM Subject: [Freedos-user] Made XP work okay... I got my K6-2 500 with 504 megs of ram running XP SP3

Re: [Freedos-user] Made XP work okay...

2012-12-26 Thread dos386
Would Microsoft please distribute an activation crack and let people freely use 32 bit Windows XP at will? I prefer dumb programming questions (stack overflow) here ;-) -- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote

Re: [Freedos-user] Made XP work okay...

2012-12-26 Thread Rugxulo
Hi again, On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Michael Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: I got my K6-2 500 with 504 megs of ram running XP SP3 well enough by turning off the swap file. Don't let XP swap, Warcraft II works fine. 500 MB should be plenty for XP. Seriously, I know software is

Re: [Freedos-user] Made XP work okay...

2012-12-26 Thread Marco Achury
I had Warcraft II Tides of Darkness, is a DOS program, I used to run this program on a Win95 machine with 16 MB of RAM. Windows is required in order to run scenary editor, but the game itself is a DOS program. As long as I know Warcraft II battle net edition is a newer version, but I have not

Re: [Freedos-user] Made XP work okay...

2012-12-26 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: 500 MB should be plenty for XP. Seriously, I know software is always increasing requirements, but it's not reasonable (IMO) to need more than that. While I can't say I've ever played Warcraft 2, I don't think it would need much