Author: Pete Galati
Date: 10:55:31 01/29/01
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On January 29, 2001 at 13:32:15, Gerald Grimsley wrote: >Hello, I am going to buy a state of the art computer with Windows ME as the >operating system. I have a number of high end DOS chess programs (HIARCS7, >MCP8,Genius5, Wchess, etc) that I would like to run on my new machine. There is >a utility program called Partition Magic is supposed to allow a DOS operating >environment on your computer. Does anybody out there have any experience with >this, and the running of DOS programs under WMe? >Thanks in advance, >Gerald Grimsley The Dos programs I've tried work ok in Windows ME. And it is posible to boot into a version of Dos with a booting floopy, this is how I've used Comet for analyzing positions usually. I've also ran a Dos compile of Crafty that way. But the mouse doesn't work booting that way, so I suppose I could load a Microsoft mouse driver with a batch file and work around that minor problem, but I haven't felt any great need to do that. One side note Gerald, don't let them tell you that this computer is state of the art when it has Windows ME for an OS, ME rather automatically disqualifies it for the term "state of the art", Windows 2000 would probably be a better option. Pete
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