Wrong.

If you don't have Service Pack 2 with the latest updates then your computer and its data are at risk. Many applications and games require at least Service Pack 2 in order to function correctly, some may not work at all without it.

It's true that a bog standard SP2 will fudge up even some of Microshaft's own software, but if you apply the latest updates, the operating system will be far more responsive and reliable than a SP1 or standard WinXP install.

Do it.

Hang on, are you praising something about Windows???

Don't think, it's more MS managed to make something less shit.

Anyway, I do use SP2 and I don't have that many problems. Not always got the latest updates though. Heck, i broke it once so it didn't install IE7.

Never had a problem with SP2.....Everything runs fine. XP Still aint no 98 though.... I mis that OS

I think what we need is a new lightweight gaming OS.

WinFLP

Yes yes, but how would one get hold of it?

Volume Licencing my friend

Arn't they hard to come by? Unless you build and sell computers?

For Legacy PCs... Does it even work properly with new stuff?

Pretty much flawlessly, supports dual cores, dual graphics and the like.

And yes, nothing beats 98 for blue screens and performance issues, apart from ME.

My copy of 98 is super unstable.

ME sucks completely.... I had to use it for a few years...

Can't really remember 98, but I'm pretty sure the only reason it could be stable on fairly modern computers is that it doesn't allow them to be used at all.

As for FLP, does it have full DX support and stuff? if so, that rocks, I want. (Infact, what's it missing?)

FLP does support DX (when you install it). What its missing is some networkey stuff (like tracert iirc)

98... yea that was good, until I got a computer that 98 didn't like, then it was buggy as hell (weirdly ME loved that pc a couple of years later...)

Which u flogged to me for free :D:D

Worked well ish, blue screened more than i thought tho

But yeah, for me 98 pwns all other OS's....Was jsut the best and had the best games too

Were you taken in by the advert? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jij5Nzh2Sj4

Adverts?! There were adverts?!

Dont make me laugh...i just liked it coz it worked....XP is kinda close, btu 98 wins coz it runs DOS games

Yes, theres been them since the days of 95.

XP runs all the DOS games I've ever needed

If you can get plug and pray to work.

PLug and Play? always worked for me tbh...:/

Well lucky you!


It could never find my mouse when I wanted to play worms.

98 had plug and play? Thought that was more recent...

Also, with a bit of fiddling you can get most DOS only games to run in windows XP, even those that would require you to reboot 98 in DOS mode...

Oh, and that advert, you could see graphical errors in it at places (one of the errors where you drag a window but it doesn't clear where it used to be...).

You can use DosBox (http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/) for DOS emulation. Works with most DOS games. It runs Tyrian great!

Unless the person using it can't get DosBox to work

I use emulation, like my Windows 3.1 Virtual PC I have on here

Me and Metrtututtisisis tried that with Worms to o avail...we didnt really understand it XD