ITT: People who don’t know that Windows 95-98 and Windows ME were gui front-ends for a DOS kernel.
Most games of this era wouldn’t run on Windows 2000, the first consumer Windows OS not built on DOS.
I distinctly remember running most, if not all, of my games on Windows 2000 (not ME). I mean, yeah, NT 4 was pretty hopeless for gaming, but 2000 was better.
ME was the only consumer release in 2000.
2000 was the direct successor to NT4 and was specifically targeting the business market. It was available in Pro, Server, Adv Server, and Datacenter editions. I would not call it a consumer Windows OS.
Windows was built on IBM compatible MS-DOS, not DOS. The term “DOS” was so ubiquitous with OBM compatibility specifically, that it almost exclusively referred to MS-DOS, and not any other variant. Windows 95 does not run on top of Atari DOS, for example, and therefore trying to run any Windows 95 application in Atari DOS would not be possible.
Software natively compiled for Windows 95 will not usually run in any other variant of DOS than MS-DOS, and in some cases, even MS-DOS itself.
Quake II released in 1997 natively for Windows 95, but was not compatible with other DOS based operating systems at the time. Over the years, fans have tried to “backport” it to other variants of DOS, most notably Q2DOS. But its original PC release does not natively support any OS other than Windows 95. Many games of this era are like this, and a game released in this era usually said it was compatible with “Windows 95/98/ME,” not “DOS.”
Ah yes, my favorite DOS games, Red Alert and Unreal Tournament.
Yes!! It’ll be fully like being back in the year 2000, widely known as “The DOS days”
If it was before XP, it was all DOS underneath.
Me, a Windows 2000 user:
I bet you had that Windows NT disc version of Diablo 1 too, you pervert.
To be fair, Red Alert came out in 1996 and was available for DOS.
Red Alert 2, not so much. DOS ports fell off hard by about '98, so this headline is weird.
Arstechnica writers have the technological knowledge of a parakeet.
Parakeets typically understand how to get what they need out of a shell.
