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If you really want to experience the Windows 9x OS, just pick up an old windows 9x machine. They have them at thrift stores, even in recycling centers where you can get them free. I get lots of free computer stuff from transfer stations quite often. Just today I got an IBM PS2 keyboard...

I have a surplus of old 3.5 fdd's (not saying they're for sale). They are ALL compatible with windows 95 as long as they are the IDE (PATA) interface, (NOT SCSI) which on the inside of a computer is a ribbon cable, slightly smaller than the CD-ROM/HDD IDE cables. A USB FDD won't work in this...

Hello all. I have an old windows 98 custom build gaming machine that I got in a bundle of old hardware and PC's (motherboards, cpu's, etc). Its a slot 1 mobo, 2 usb ports on the back, 4 pci, 1 agp 2x, and 3 isa. I put in a slot 1 cpu (P2 mmx) and a new HDD (seagate barracuda ATA IV). It...

Yes, I also use DOSbox. However I prefer running old software on old PCs. I use dosbox on my main PC but when I want to sit and play a game like daggerfall for a while I'll use my Pentium 2 mmx windows 98 machine.

If you are trying to partition or format it, you got to go to a dosprompt and use fdisk. Than there are some options you can choose from.

The windows 95 floppies were compressed to save disk space. So it saved them from using extra floppies. If you can find a disk compression utility for modern windows, than you can use that on the 1.44 diskettes and it should hive you enough space to write the win 95 img to the disks.

Another possibiltiy is there is something touching the motherboard (screws, case side panel) and I've heard about it happening before. Even happened on my new 386 build. I needed to install stand offs so the mobo wouldnt touch the case metal.

I would look into finding an extra machine with windows 98 or 95 for legacy applications. I have computers as old as MS DOS 5.0 and WFW 3.11 and I can even get them on the web. Building and gaming on old PC's is quite a fun hobby :)