Looking for older version of Spring, circa 0.73

[ZellSF]

Now, that HD will need to be dual-boot, as I'll still want to play various old games that XP can't emulate properly.

Don't even think about doing that unless you have something you know XP can't emulate properly as a large majority of XP's incompatibilities with games have been figured out long ago.

[Peet]

And there's always dosbox.

[el_matarife]

You underestimate the amount of mission critical, unreplaceable software that only works on ancient OSes.

That's why I said "unless its running in a VM". I understand keeping it around, but seriously please run it in a network isolated VM environment for all of our sakes. A machine running 98 not behind some sort of really hardcore IDS and/or NAT is just asking for trouble.

[tunafish]

Don't upgrade to XP, upgrade to Linux. There are flavors that are less hardware-demanding than w98, and still have all the functionality of a modern desktop os.

As a bonus, it'll be free and legal.

[MelTraX]

If you use nLite to strip all parts of XP noone uses, it works pretty well on a Pentium II 233MHz with 96MB RAM.. I hope for you that your machine is better, considering that you play Spring..