I want to install windows 95 on my current XP machine on a separate hard drive so I can play some of my old windows 95/DOS based games that just won't work in XP.
After I got windows 95 installed it rebooted and then the boot screen came up and then right to an error message saying I have insufficient memory and that the system has been halted.
Now I know I have more memory on my system than 95 will use. So I am guessing it is a hardware compatibility problem with windows 95. Can someone help me out on this?
For the original NFS, the cd came with both DOS and Windows 95 versions. The DOS version works in the DOSBox emulator. DOSBox emulates a DOS PC complete with sound card. That's what I use for most older DOS games these days, though I still have a 486 and Pentium 100mhz for the very few problem DOS games I can't get working with DOSBox.
Quote:win95 maxes out at about 300mhz. try the software compatibilty wizard to run those programs
Far as I know...there really isn't one. But some of the older OSes and their respective programs may have a problem with a faster CPU...I've installed Windows 95 on an AMD XP 1800+ (1.5GHz) with 256MB of ram, but the problem may lie in the fact that using 512 is the max....remember, that also needs to include the virtual memory.
Try using a 256 stick if you can find one.
So far, the record (remembering back a year or two) is 53 operating systems on one computer (DOS environments made up the majority)...Windows 1.0 thru all versions of XP, Linux distros...all on a machine running at or above 1GHz.
Add the following line in the [386Enh] section of the System.ini
MaxPhysPage=30000
ddp, I ran into the same issue years ago. There was a timing bug when using AMD K6 processors. There was a patch that you could run to correct it. It wasn't that 95 wouldn't support higher frequencies, since it would work fine with Intel chips.
