Windows XP installation disk

[ricardo]

Does anyone have a Windows XP install disk they could give or sell me? Or a copy with the password decrypted.

I need a pukka XP machine to run the software I wrote myself in da last Millenium. Yes. I've tried the various Virtual machines but none of them give me the functionality I need. To put this into perspective, I run a DOS window under Win 98 on the XP machine.

Machines that have XP drivers are all more than 10 yrs old. I found one but I lent my pukka XP install disc to a friend who promptly lost it

 

[KrIVIUM2323]

Hi i might have one but it's an 'optimized' version of it ( being cleaned from 'unescessary' thing in the OS).
Let me first find it and see how we could transfer it to you.

 

[nashkato]

i should have several xp discs, too
but what is "pukka" ?

 

[JohnRoberts]

adjective​

1. Genuine; authentic.
2. Superior; first-class.

 

[molke]

To put this into perspective, I run a DOS window under Win 98 on the XP machine.

This seems to be a fairly complicated procedure for running DOS software (if that’s the goal). Wouldn’t it be easier to just install DOS directly (either genuine or some emulator)—or at least Windows 98?

 

[nashkato]

win 98 i have, too

 

[soulsonic]

you can search archive.org for old OS installers

 

[john12ax7]

Pretty sure I have one somewhere if you haven't figured it out yet.

 

[thor.zmt]

but what is "pukka" ?

Pukka is a slang term taken from Hindi पक्का (pakkā, “certain, sure”), Punjabi ਪੱਕਾ (pakkā, “mature, ripe; cooked; strong, substantial; genuine, sound, true, valid”) and Urdu پکا (pakkā, “mature, ripe; cooked; strong, substantial; genuine, sound, true, valid”), from Sanskrit पक्व (pakva, “baked, cooked, roasted”), from पचति (pacati, “to bake, cook, roast”).

Among English users (not those speaking 'murican) "pukka" came to signify "first class" or "absolutely genuine".

A good use of Pukka may be found in Song # 187 of the Hash House Harriers: "WHEN LADY JANE BECAME A TART"

https://www.hashnj.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/HHH-Song-Book.pdf

No help on Win XP though. A Ripe, Cooked, Baked, Roasted XP Computer?

Why not just run a DOS VM?

DOSBox perhaps?

https://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1

Install FreeDOS on it?

https://www.freedos.org/

Honestly, I'd probably prefer a few root canals without Novocain or just rewriting the software. It probably can be done trivially in Excel or Google-Doc's spreadsheet if it mainly numerical analysis.

Now for a Pukka Tune, innit?



Thor