PDS and XP

[Antoni Gual]

antoni? lol.

i've been developing LL in 98 for almost a year now. (maybe even a full year)

just a month ago i switched to ME...

You should see the mess FB's gfxlib screen refresh makes in my old W98 machine.....The W98 screen drivers are not updated nowadays, so you have to be very lucky!

[Anonymous]

How can you still be on Windows 98 and just have "upgraded" to ME? I can't believe anyone would even consider running such an old 32-bit extension for DOS as their primary OS. :wow:

Or are you running this in a virtual machine? The best way to run QB is on a stable operating system (that's a *NIX OS) through a virtual machine running a pure DOS environment.

I don't run QB, that's suicide. I run *native 32-bit compiler*, that is, FreeBASIC.

@antoni: that's true...

[TheAdventMaster]

I thought FB only had troubles with Windows 95 and lower. All the FB documentation I read has recommended 98 or higher, and hasn't mentioned any anomalies with 98.

I was using FB with 98 for a very long time without troubles. The only trouble with using FB with 98 now is we have Windows XP.

[AlienQB]

@cha0s

Well, I assumed you were running QB in this instance since this thread is located in the QB forum, not the FB one.

Regardless of what applications you are running, granted the application runs on both 98 and XP, I fail to see any reason to run 98. That's still my question. Why?

:bounce:

[na_th_an]

I returned to W98 a couple of weeks ago as I had to use a computer with it installed.

I almost puked... ARGH! How could I stand W98 for so long without dying? Cha0s: you must be really lucky with your video card drivers. The funny thing about W98 is that your video card drivers can make the system crash, that was one of the reasons the OS was soooo unstable. A misguided call to OpenGL, for example, and you could crash everything.

WXP has been a gift. It has been the very first thing Microsoft has done half-properly. I would never ever come back to that shitty, unstable, MSDOS based pile of crap I'd use W2000, but with more than 256 Mb, WXP performs better

[Anonymous]

my computer is too slow to run XP. it can barely run ME, and that's Sad.

As long as I can develop LL on it, I'm happy ^^

[DrV]

Your video drivers (and any other driver) can always make the system crash (in XP as well) - they run in kernel mode. WHQL and such things have helped to make hardware companies build better drivers (so they can pass the certification).