[Re: Compatiblity probs between Win98 and DOS programs?]

[Quinton Fulsom]

A neat trick ONLY in 98 that I very much recommend is to scrap your cdrom
drivers and use the 98 boot disk it makes you create on install.  Also you can
make one by going to control panels, add/rem. programs and choose startup
disk.  It will add cdrom drivers that will work on virtually ANY cdrom.

Quint




"Tom Baldwin" <tomb at richmond.infi.net> wrote:
I would have to agree with the last to replies. when beta testing Win98 our
instructions were to do a clean install of Win98 as unusual things could
happen with an upgrade. That was for the final release. I also agree that
DOS mode is more stable in Win98 than in Win95. At least that is what I
noticed with some of my old sound and midi drivers.


If you can do a clean install, do so. fdisk the drive. use fdisk /mbr. Then
just install your cdrom driver to load up win98.

Tom B.

----- Original Message -----
From: Frank Olivieri <frank at inch.com>
To: Robert Williams <will7370 at tao.sou.edu>
Cc: Synth-DIY <synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl>
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 1999 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: Compatiblity probs between Win98 and DOS programs?


>I have no problems running DOS programs under Win98. As a matter of fact,
it works great.
>Better than 95. You may have a virus, or your config.sys is not setup
properly.
>
>Frank
>
>Robert Williams wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I recently upgraded to Windows 98 about a month ago, and it has given me
nothing but
>> grief with my DOS programs.  Has anyone had compatibility problems
between DOS software
>> and Windows 98?  I've tried many different types of programs; music,
softsynths, even
>> non music related software like flight simulators and genealogy programs,
all have the
>> same problems.  Half the time it crashes the OS when I try to install
them, and if I do
>> manage to get them installed, they only run for about a week before they
lock up my
>> system when I start the program.  I wonder if some of the automatically
scheduled weekly
>> disk maintenance features of Win98 messes with some of my files?  I don't
think I can
>> tell it to avoid certain files or folders.
>>
>> Just wondering if anybody else had this problem and if there was a Win98
patch that
>> might correct it?  I'm almost tempted to go back to Win95.
>>
>> Robert
>


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