Windows 2000 Drivers are going fine

[Gurm]

TheRock:

You're basically correct. Windows 2000 is NT5, for the most part. Windows Millennium is just Win98 with (eventually) ALL the 16-bit stuff removed, including DOS.

- Ash nee Gurm nee Slarty

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[paulcs]

I heard that DOS will still be there. (I think I got this information from The Register.)

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[The Rock]

Damn; Microsoft aint making this confusing eh? Windows 2000 and Windows Millenium. I feel sorry for people who aren't "in the know".

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The Rock
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: His eyes are closed."
-- Albert Einstein


[This message has been edited by The Rock (edited 31 October 1999).]

[agallag]

Yup, Millenium (Win98 third edition ), is supposedly the 32bit only version of the Win9x series. Apparently, if you pull up a Run dialog, and type in "command", you get yourself a nice little Dos window...

[Gurm]

paulcs:

We've had the argument in here before about the veracity of the register's information. They don't know pucky. The version of Millennium I have installed (2404, released 10/29/99) has no DOS mode at all. You pull up a DOS window from inside windows and get some bastardized command window... a la windows NT.

Millennium is VERY cool. Way more stable than Win98, due to lack of 16-bit stuff. Of course the downside is that you'd be AMAZED at how many manufacturers STILL use 16-bit code in their drivers (HP scanner software immediately pops into my head). So some devices are DOA - at least until the manufacturers shape up.

- Ash

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Listen up, you primitive screwheads! See this? This is my BOOMSTICK! Etc. etc.

This signature is not Copyright by anyone. Especially not some guy named Steve. Yeah. That's it. Please don't kill me, Holly.

[PaulS]

BTW, just to confuse you more, Millennium will be renamed Windows 2000 Personal for the product launch next year.

Personally (pun intended) I can't see the point; with W2K going so well. But each to his/her own...

Paul.

[atysoe]

no joy here, everyone keeps sending me the 300k standard drivers . anyone think they can help me out eml tysoe@pacbell.net

thanks


Adrian

[Rob M.]

Gurm: try putting the line "BOOTGUI=0" in the msdos.sys file for windows millenium, see if you have a dos prompt when you boot up.

[motub]

Count me in!!!! I'm a newbie at 'warez surfing as well (only web based searches while I'm looking for MP3s or ROMs... and I get sick of clicking thru the porn, to be frank...) Somebody please mail me a link or 300...

But does this mean that my really, really old DOS games (like, say 'Azrael's Tear', which I keep meaning to play through) won't run?

Ah, hell, what do I care... I'll just set up 6.22 in a partition and use System Commander.. please ignore me, I'm not thinking today.

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Holly, waiting for MAIL!!

[motub]

BTW, love that .sig, Gurm!!!

and don't tell me about 16-bit code... your scanner... my Canon BJC-610... they tried to pretty up the Windows Printing System sw for Win95, but y'know how you can just look at sw and see that whole Windows 3.1 aura just streaming off it...?

went to their website... gods forbid they should have a new version... I'm supposed to buy a new printer, just because they can't flippin' conform their sw package? It kinda stinks, guys...!

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Holly

[paulcs]

Hi Gurm. I wasn't commenting on the veracity of The Register's claim, nor was I using it to back up my claim. I was just citing it as the source of what I had read, leaving it up to the reader to decide its worth.

I thought this was implicit in my post. Again, I have no idea if it is true or not. I cited the source (a) because, for once, I remembered it, and (b) because I know The Register has its fans and detractors here, and I thought it safe to assume people would just make up their own minds.

I'd certainly like to know if anyone manages to get a DOS prompt in Windows Millenium.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[Marshmallowman]

DOS prompt? , don't you mean 32 bit command console.
Don't confuse a 32 bit console mode application with a "dos prompt"
and I have seen a 16bit windows applications working quite happily under window's 2000.

[The Rock]

So I have this Windows 2000 now (build 2151), and I assume there is no D3D or OpenGL right now? Crap; and to think I already blasted several people who were whining about not having drivers for this...DOH! Once I burn a bootable CD and install it, I guess I'll see for myself. Are there any resources for getting DX7 or OpenGL running with this thing, or am I asking for miracles that Jesus couldn't even provide?



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The Rock
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: His eyes are closed."
-- Albert Einstein

[paulcs]

Hmmmm. It identifies itself in Windows 2000 as "Microsoft (R) Windows DOS."

But I shall not call it DOS. I shall only refer to it as "The 32-Bit Command Console."

Funny. It looks like DOS.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[Marshmallowman]

ooh... it does say Dos prompt doesn't it
well it still is a 32bit command console window.(programmer lingo for dos prompt)

Dirext X 7 seems to work reasonably well even on a g200 for win2k pro(RC2) . Have been playing age of empire 2 for hours, mind you carmageddon 2 keeps crashing
opengl is a total no show for a g200 though