They are all from the Jump Start Series.
Matthias Johnson wrote:
On Feb 9, 2010, at 1:03 PM, Mark Wallace <[email protected]> wrote:
Your last line is the clincher. I found duel booting to be twice as
much work and, when I get done with both Windows and Gnome, they
wind up looking like Windows 98 anyway.
The programs that I am talking about were written for Windows 95,
reduce the screen resolution when they start and probably he
wouldn't know the difference. They have a copy protect on them so
that they only run with the CD in the drive. I tried to speed up
their running in Wine by copying the cd contents to the drive, but
the program kept looking for the drive, anyway.
It also takes me a full day to install XP from a blank drive because
it is an 8 year old program with tons of security upgrades and
teaser editions of programs that no longer exist. It's simply too
much ancient history.
But that pentium 2 system would run the current distro of Linux,
just very slowly. I am tempted to put Ubuntu in it instead, use it
for word processing, and send him into his sister's room for the old
games.
There are strict orders that he is never to go online in Windows,
because he doesn't know what those sites could be doing to him.
The vulnerability that the virus finds might not exist in Vista, we
are afraid to try.
What I use to do was setup everything the way I like it and ghost an
image. There are a lot of programs you can use to do this but some
will require you to trim the partition so you don't copy blank data.
Then everytime you blow it up just copy the image back. You could also
try dosbox for Linux if that works for you, depends on the program. I
use to just image the game there are ways of mounting an iso. Just out
of curiousity what games?
Matthias Johnson
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They told me that I needed to upgrade Windows. So I upgraded it to
Linux for free. For a free download, go to
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/products/WhatIsUbuntu/desktopedition
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