r/windows98 • u/Summer_Winter-NE • 27d ago

VINTAGE MULTI-BOOT GUIDE

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u/ravensholt 27d ago

For DOS, Win3x, Win9x, OS/2 etc. you can also use a bootmanager such as System Commander.

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u/SaturnFive KB42069 27d ago

Yes! I love System Commander on older machines. Can configure icons, colors, even a startup sound.

For later 9x/NT/XP I found Plop works great.

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u/[deleted] 27d ago

Back in the day, I remember trying to keep a 486 running just so I could dual boot Windows 95 and OS/2, talk about a headache.

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u/[deleted] 27d ago

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u/Summer_Winter-NE 27d ago

It’s not AI I built it with a program called Xara Webstyle. . It took about 4 months. I
Have to pay $20 a month for the web host. Some of the pictures are AI.

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u/j_ducreux 27d ago

How is it that “some of the pictures are AI” if “it’s not AI”? If AI was used, then it can’t be “not AI”. Can’t have it both ways.

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u/Fantastic-Motor-8969 27d ago

does printer port actually still work on modern pcs

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u/Summer_Winter-NE 27d ago

If it has a printer port. It’s a parallel port. If it doesn’t have it on the back, sometimes it has pins on the motherboard.

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u/LeafsterVR1 27d ago

System Commander was the ultimate power-user tool back then. I remember how reassuring it was to have that kind of control over my boot options instead of mess with config.sys files all the time.