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

2012-12-26 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Rugxulo 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 RAM, relative

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 n

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 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 always increasing requi

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 su

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 98SE and ipxwrapper...

2012-12-26 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > Op 26-12-2012 5:40, dmccunney schreef: > >> I have an old Fujitsu Lifebook p2110 with an 867mhz Transmeta Crusoe >> CPU and 256MB RAM (of which the Crusoe grabs 16MB off the top for code >> morphing.) > > That morphing and learning the archite

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 98SE and ipxwrapper...

2012-12-26 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 26-12-2012 5:40, dmccunney schreef: > I have an old Fujitsu Lifebook p2110 with an 867mhz Transmeta Crusoe > CPU and 256MB RAM (of which the Crusoe grabs 16MB off the top for code > morphing.) That morphing and learning the architecture is indeed slow for a while, possibly forever. > The big

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

2012-12-26 Thread Mark Brown
windows xp can and will corrupt files until activation. while this is partially avoidable by quickpar and/or multipar, the problem will persist by design 'til you activate. (it's easy over the toll-free phone number provided). i avoid the problem by getting a cheap copy of xp for a dell, (works wi

[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, so