Ex-Caldera dev describes lost “WinBolt” Win9x-capable version of DR-DOS (2007)

Re:Ex-Caldera dev describes lost “WinBolt” Win9x-capable ver... by retrac on Monday August 30, 2021 @09:23PM (#28362964)

I suppose it depended what you were doing. You couldn't beat Windows 98 for how light it was on RAM. Probably the fastest for DirectX games and so on vs. the competition. Fastest to boot and open up a word processor.

But I have the distinct recollection of it being excruciating for multitasking. Towards the end of Windows 98's life you might ask it to run a video player, a game, a chat client, a browser and a word processor all at once. Stability disappeared. So did responsiveness. Windows 2000 (or Linux) handled heavy load much better.

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Re:Ex-Caldera dev describes lost “WinBolt” Win9x-capable ver... by Teknoman117 on Monday August 30, 2021 @10:13PM (#28363236)

I ended up choosing Win 98 SE for my "retro" gaming computer. I use it to go back and play the games from my childhood that broke on NT based Windows releases.

When it came up was probably the first time in a decade or more that I'd heard the click/buzz of a floppy drive in person.

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