c64 - its back and its badass!

[danwood]

Any reason why you are forcing yourself to use Windows 98?

Wouldn't have the issue if you were not using a 25 year old OS.

1998 = 25 years ago?... I think your maths are off a bit there.

But yeah, depending on the specs of the machine, upgrade it to 2000 or XP, they don't run on top of DOS so you shouldn't have the issue any more.

[danwood]

No: they don't run on top of DOS, so you will have even more issues. I like 2000 and XP just fine, but they're not OSes you want to do anything DOS-based and hacky on - 2000 especially. They don't give DOS programs the relatively free reign that 95-98 do, and while that's not too big an issue for something like ZZT, it's a big problem for the kind of program that hacks up a CBM serial-port emulation by manually bit-banging a cable attached to the parallel port. Kids, do not try this at home.

Ah I stand corrected then.

I just use an X1541 cable hooked up to a 1541 floppy drive to write disk images, doesn't take long at all and works great.

You can get a 1541 for pennies on ebay these days.