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#101
Originally Posted by f2thak View Post
WHY?????????? W95 is how old??? XD
Easy. It's so simple it's unstable. It's a straight up tall order to boot up W95 on a new machine, it took me days and I rate a guru. But. Did you ever see it go? It's designed for 100 MHz, minimum of 16 MHz.

"Official system requirements were an Intel 80386 DX CPU of any speed, 4 MB of system RAM, and 120 MB of hard drive space".

Do you know how this runs on a 4 GHz? You can't see the menus pop. You click on Notepad and for a second there it seemed like it opened before you clicked it.

Oh, and, mine crashed 5 minutes in. It really is W95.

We could have W2K in theory, which is stable - but it starts to drag if under 128M RAM, which we don't really have. Also, needs some 300 MHz to run and that's a problem if emulated.

Besides, I like having ISA support. Makes me warm and fuzzy inside. ;)
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#102
Is wimdows 2000 dos based? I tried to find the answer lots of times but had no luck. I never got it booting on dosbox and gave up, and bochs is way too slow....
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#103
Originally Posted by 6sicSIX View Post
Is wimdows 2000 dos based? I tried to find the answer lots of times but had no luck. I never got it booting on dosbox and gave up, and bochs is way too slow....
No its NT5, kernel and core are not dos compatible. it has virtual msdos within the loaded gui through command shell.
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#104
Oh okay, what was the guy above talking about then? Not dosbox I assume
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#105
Originally Posted by 6sicSIX View Post
Oh okay, what was the guy above talking about then? Not dosbox I assume
Windows 95, 98 and ME are "home" OSs, are DOS-based (ME is a bit of a mashup) and load from DOS, run and can be returned to DOS on exit. They can be run on DOSBox in theory (apparently in practice, too).

Windows NT is the "pro" line of OSs. NT4, Windows 2000 (NT5), XP (NT 5.1), Vista (NT6) and 7 (should be 7, hence the name, but a marketing decision made it 6.1). These probably won't run under DOSBox.

The guy above (assuming that's me) said that we could have it, in theory (via -say- a VM or QEMU or something) but even if we could have a stable MS OS, it would drag its feet due to requirements. So, no.
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#106
hi Arctine
i confi. all step as per your instruction but when i open dosbox i got one errors
C:\>boot -i c
opening image file: -i
Bootdiskfile does not exist. Failing.
Cannot open-i

i got above errors instead of starting windows 95'
please help me brother i am very creasy to run windows on my n900
please mail me how to solve my errors.
thanks on advanced..............................
 
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#107
same here :S
i gave my best but no use the image i have r not working on pc too or i am doing it wrong
 
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#108
Then perhaps you should read carefully.

That's boot -l c not boot -i c.

Try a copy-paste job if unsure, missing just the right space or the right letter could mean reflash.
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#109
ARGH!
Windows sucks!

Why'd you run M$ W$ on a phone which comes with a Debian-based distro by default??
You can install Easy Debian if you miss a desktop environment!
 
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#110
Wonder if we can run MapleStory on this...
... could this even get any more bizarre...
 
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