Lostgallifreyan wrote:
98 Guy wrote in :

Gabriel Knight wrote:

Thanks for the cross posting for me 98 Guy and I will make sure to
use the microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion group for any more
Win 98 questions - I apologize sincerely.

No need to apologize.

Just recognize the utility of posting to the appropriate newsgroups.

However, I note that you *again* did not cross-post to
microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion, even though you are continuing
this dialog on a path that pertains to windows 98.

You seem to be going out of your way to NOT post replies in this thread
where I have already added microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion to the
distribution, but instead when you reply you do so by creating a new
thread - and only post it to the XP help-and-support group. This is
highly suspicious behavior.

I am using Win98 for one reason that is I bought an old pc game
that needs an old pc so I have built a pc for that but I though
the service packs for 98 and xp were the same, I was wrong there.

I know I can run VMware, dosbox or program compatibility on Win xp
but I don't want to do that. It's been a while for me with win 98
so my questions were a bit off - my apologies again.

I needed a service pack for 98 because before I installed an ATI
Radeon 3d card driver I had to install "Net Framework 1.1" and
internet explorer 6 or the driver would not install, later I found
the driver or the card were not working 100% so before that I
thought an up to date service pack might help as one game I used
as a test said something was missing but I was later seeing a bad
driver problem because of graphic mishaps after the driver was
installed so now I am in the process of getting another driver to
try or I'll use an NVidia card.

Thanks all

GK

I can only say that I'm baffled by your continued use of the XP
help-and-support group to post questions pertaining to win-98.

There might be others that will help you install win-98 with all the
appropriate accessories (like a functional driver for your video card,
.Net framework, etc) but I no longer have the inclination to help in
this hand-holding process just so you can play some old games.


Just tell him to use 'Compatibility Mode' in WXP. I don't have a clue what
that even means, exactly, (I don't run WXP) but I know that people who do
often get W9X stuff running on it by doing that, without recourse to
virtual
machines.

But it only works with some apps, as might be expected.
I don't know what it is doing behind the scenes to accomplish this feat,
however, (but that would be interesting to know).