Author Topic: I just gotta know... (Read 283 times)

Hien · « **on:** January 04, 2008, 04:39:28 AM »

I've been cleaning out my friends Closet spaces of old computers, so far I've managed to nab a Windows 95 (unkown amount of ram, matters little, as its processor is dead and going to become a necklace/keychain)

And a Windows 98SE, with 64mbs of ram (I have a compatible 256mb ram stick though) and a two hundred and freaking sixty MHZ processor.

I'm also getting two relitivly older computers (still white cases, I expect 2ks, exact clones of each other.) Now, not knowing what their processor speeds are...

Lets say, by some act of a higher being, they have 256mb ram sticks. One in each, and I can put two in one, and get that grand, min req of 512mbs of RAM...

Let's also assume that they somehow meet that min req of... 1ghz processor speed... Somehow, magically.

So if I jacked my 98SE, or if they are 2ks, their HDDs on there (and a decent video card)... and managed to get the internet working on them (I just need a 98SE cd for the 98...SE to get it working)

Say I download Aces High on them... And go to town. I know the min. req. has been updated on the home page (even though it's actually been like that for a while) but does 98SE and 2k REALLY still run Aces High?

Has it been tested recently? Because I don't have any XP CDs/keys laying around. And not a whole lot of money(at the moment.

As a side note, I have a computer for myself, 3.3ghz processor (Celeron D) and 1256mbs of ram. 80gb hard drive, etc. Good stuff compared to what I'm getting. So if they don't i have a backup.

But I'm thinking if they do work then I can use that computer for AH, and the other one for something else. I'm sure I could find something creative...

Skuzzy · « **Reply #1 on:** January 04, 2008, 05:57:41 AM »

Windows 2000 is no problem at all. For 98 you need a third party memory manager that allows you to get passed 128MB of RAM for use with executables.

Hien · « **Reply #2 on:** January 04, 2008, 03:16:30 PM »

Thanks Skuzzy, I'll do a quick google search for one. Because I still don't know what those two clone-comps are. Better safe then sorry, etc.

Deth7 · « **Reply #3 on:** January 04, 2008, 08:08:49 PM »

I use rambooster (free) to help with win98SE and run 768meg of ram
and a 5200 ultra vid card and a 2.4 pent4. I get 70fr to 30fr with 6 processes running

Hien · « **Reply #4 on:** January 04, 2008, 09:49:16 PM »

Thank ya' very much Deth, I hadn't had any luck finding one. I'll probably try that one. Big thing is right now that it (the 98SE) isn't hooked up to the internet, I need a driver of a 98SE Install CD (that I have, over at a friends house, he was thinking of changing Vista to 98SE

)

Till then, the poor girl doesn't even have 256 color.

But I did gank an ole' 256mb stick from another comp, just happened to work in that one.

(Big thing that I need right now is to hit that 1ghz min req, The computer I'm on right now hits 870mhz, but the only processors in this house that hit that min are my dead one (and the one that is going to replace it) and the laptop that doesn't belong to me.)