Too Damn Right !!
I am sticking with Windows XP - and still having Fun.
However - Win '98 has some more things going for it.
All of the 1990's Games which were real FUN - and not totally competitive.
Back in those days - you could get Games which WERE Fun - made by Smaller Companies which have since either Folded or been swallowed up.
I could list heaps and heaps of them - because I STILL HAVE THEM, on my "old" Pc which is Running Windows '98.
Most of these would only Run in Windows '95 or Windows '98.
But also - lots of Legacy Games from the days of DOS and Windows 3.1 will still Run on Windows '98 - I know, because many of them DID, and STILL DO - for me.
Some Games which come to mind -
Simcity 3000, with the Add-On Building Architect ( the Add-On could only be Downloaded ).
With all of the "Cheat Codes" - that was a damn FUN Game.
The original DOS / Win 3.1 Simcity was fairly interesting as well.
Populous A New Beginning - and Undiscovered Worlds. That is one damn FUN Game -
especially if you know the "Cheat Codes".
I also have the original Populous, running in DOS.
Doom - originally a DOS / Win 3.1 Game, and Doom 2 - I have had hours and hours of FUN with that, also using the "Cheat Codes".
Wolfenstein - that one IS a DOS Game, but it Runs in Windows '98.
I never had any Cheat Codes - but it seems that I always survive.
Catabyss - "The Catacombs / Abyss" - it gets strenger and stranger the deeper that you go, espcially when you get down below the Levels of Zombies, Ghouls and other Monsters, and into the Mines of the Gnomes.
That is actually a DOS Game - and I HAVE reached as far as the Mines of the Gnomes, but only one time.
Ultima 8 - The Pagan - a very strange Game, originally from DOS I think.
No Cheat Codes, but before you try anything a bit dodgy - do a SAVE.
Then you can try it a different way, the next time.
Mist - a strange but limited Alternate World.
Riven - a development from Mist - bigger, wider in scope, very imaginative.
ROTT - The Rise of The Triad - Very, Very Strange. Fun - but tricky.
Cannon Fodder - a strange kind of death-and-destruction Game.
So - as I said, lots and lots of Good Games.
In Win 3.1 and then Win '98 - I did thousands of Pages of Writing in Word 6.
Moving up to Windows XP was fine - nearly all of my Software still works, but unfortunately NOT the Games.
However - I am now doing Mountains of Writing in Word 2000.
The big problem with "improving" Software by creating new Versions - is that the Software TRIES to do your thinking for you - and SOMETIMES GETS IT CATASTROPHICALLY WRONG !!
Nobody thinks exaclty like me, in fact no two people EVER think exactly the same - and to attempt to write Software which TRIES to do our thinking for us, is a DAMN STUPID idea.
I prefer to do my OWN thinking - not to have some stupid Software Package attempt to Anticipate what I want to write, as if it ever COULD gesss what I am thinking.
Originally - people used to say, Computers don't make mistakes, it is the people who use them that make the mistakes.
That is no longer true - leave Thinking to the PEOPLE - at least that way you can tell who to blame.
Sorry - End of Rant.
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