If you have the time and energy, it's worth the effort, IMHO old DOS games play best on real hardware. You'll be spending some time learning about AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS configuration. If your CPU is too fast, slowdown software. For pure DOS games, depending on your needs you will require a DOS mouse driver, DOS CD-ROM setup and likely a DOS sound driver and mixer. There is lots of information on the internet and this forum. To answer your previous question, playing DOS only games requires extra configuration to get things running. Use the memory patch if you want a dual/multi-boot system with >512 MB physical RAM. If you have these OS', set up a dual boot. Quick search indicates Outrun 2006 Coast-2-Coast is a Windows XP/2000 game. It may be useful to share a list of the games you intend to play. For me, i own Windows 98 SE and it's classic. I don't have direct Windows ME experience, but my impression is it's better than the flak it got. Windows 98 doesn't require it and most games from the era won't need it either. Having run both ways, more than 512 MB RAM is not critical. If primarily for gaming then a vanilla Windows 98 install, the best graphic and sound drivers you can find, DirectX 9 and you are good to go. So if you can find and afford the hardware, a dedicated (older) DOS system and a dedicated higher-end Windows system for 3D games is ideal but not required. DOS game setup vs high-end Windows 98 gaming have different hardware needs and configuration. Personally, i would recommend just finding some decent enough middle of the road hardware. As you've spent time on the forum, it's evident going too high-end with hardware may be more hassle than it's worth.
#Demonstar 1996 install#
Just install Windows 98 and test, you may be making it too complicated. Unless i misunderstood you already have some hardware.
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