GG,(posted 9059 days ago)Your best option is to do the same as a lot of people I know who have recently got new machines with WindowsME pre-installed:
1) Get Win98SE and it's boot disk. 2) Boot from this floppy. 3) Run FDISK to reformat your drive. 4) Boot from that floppy again and choose the install option. 5) Enjoy a much better system with full DOS support.
It's what I've just recently done on my machine - although in my case I was getting sick of Win95 crashes and upgraded. Mind you, in your case it could probably be considered an upgrade as well.
Of course, with that grunty a box most games will probably run ok under Mame32 anyway - although MameDOS does do scrolling games better with less problems with tearing during fast scrolling.
BeeJay.