Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/02/17/17:20:04
> > the same time under Win2000, whereas under Win95 the music would
> > start skipping if I did anything else.
>
> This maybe a problem that is unrelated to the OS's multitasking as
> win95 takes far less CPU resources than 2000.
Maybe it's better managment of task priorities - perhaps Win2000 gives a
higher priority to background tasks.
> And playing a MP3 is not that CPU intensive as far as a pentium
> is concerned.
Well it takes about 12% of the CPU on my computer - I'd call that quite
intensive.
> I suggest that you try incresing the buffer length of audio
> data to reduce this skipping. It could also be due to bugy
> win95 drivers (more likely).
Possibly - I'd give it a try, but I've now "upgraded" my Win95 installation
to the latest beta of Millenium - which, incidentally, has a vastly quicker
boot-up speed.
> There is a superb dos emulator called DOSEmu for linux.
Ok, well can some linux guru answer these questions:
1. Where can I download linux?
2. How easy is it to install?
3. Will it install on a FAT partition, or does it need its own type of
partition?
4. Does it dual-boot gracefully with DOS/Win2000/etc?
> Well A _good_ 32 bit OS should be able to handle and terminate any badly
> behaving program gracefully. And gracefully doesn't mean crashing ;-).
Yes, ok, but I was comparing it to Win9x - and in comparison with '98,
Win2000 is a beacon of stability. :-)
> > This is the example I was talking about above; however, if you run RHIDE
> > windowed then all that happens is it kills the process when it crashes.
>
> sloowwwwwww. Please see how slow vga games like doom are windowed.
Yes, but RHIDE isn't a graphics-mode program. Doom/Duke Nukem 3D will run
full-screen under win2000, just without any sound. In fact, I couldn't get
any DOS program to use sound under win2k.
> Also have you noticed that when you are running a vesa game
> full screen and you accidently press that #@$*! M$ startmenu key
> , you cant re switch to your game as windoze
Yeah, happens in win9x too - it's really odd, especially as if you leave the
game with Alt-Tab, it does save and restore the screen properly.
> > I'm not believing any hype - I've used Win2000 myself for 2 months now,
> > and am speaking from experience.
>
> Please try running products from different companies (not just microshaft)
> and see whether your system survives it). I'm sure you'l run into at least
> one of the 64000 bugs that m$ has acknowledged.
Practically speaking there's no real alternative to Windows. I hate it
myself, would much prefer to use DOS. But all applications and games these
days are for Windows. Ok, so there are linux versions of a few, and WinEmu
or whatever it was can run some Windows progs - but at the end of the day
you have to use Windows.
> > Look, it's only a figure of speech - I mean, it's a good OS.
>
> Good OS??? Maybe a tolerable (even this is questionable) OS, but certainly
> not a good OS. If you enjoy your system crashing and you have the patience
> to wait a long time till it restarts then it's quite OK to have windoze
Well Windows 2000 has never crashed for me except where DOS apps are
involved. So if you only run Windows apps, it very rarely crashes.
> BTW when one user complained to M$ about how often windoze crashes he
> was told that "We acknowledge that problem and our solution to that is, we
> are working on reducing the reboot time for windoze"!!!! Typical of M$
> won't you agree...
LOL ;-)
> Anyway playing a few games and running word processing can be done in
> DOS also..
That's true, but until someone writes a DirectX emulator for DOS, and
printer drivers for recent printers into DOS word-processors, we're stuck
with Windoze.
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