On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 6:59 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>>
>> XP itself should run in it. The question is apps you will run under XP.
>
> As you mentioned, Firefox is a memory hog, but Opera is okay f
Hi,
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 6:59 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Rugxulo 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
light browsing and Gmail.
> I recently inhe
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
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
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
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
> Would Microsoft please distribute an activation crack and
> let people freely use 32 bit Windows XP at will?
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> From: Michael Robinson
>To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
>Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2012 5:58 AM
>Subject: [Freedos-user] Made XP work okay...
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>I got my K6-2 500 with 504
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
