Running a DOS game in Windows XP

[marky]

lomngstory short

im trying to get my copy of the old SSN21 Seawolf game running on my computer

i miss playing it, but its in DOS, and i have no clue how to get it running

pleeeeaz help me get this game running i missed playin it!

[Sardaukar]

Try using DosBox emulator.

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/

[marky]

i tried i couldnt get the stupid thing to work [:(]


wat about a DOS bopot disk?

thats wat i use to use, my brother in law made it, but i cant find the damn thing [:(]

[Sardaukar]

Check this:

http://www.dosgames.com/xphints.php

[marky]

thankyz Sar ill have to play around with it[:)]

[marky]

actually that doesnt help either[:(][:(][&:][&:][&:]

[marky]

why cant the eggheads that wrote this crap make it simple for the rest of us who dont underrstand this #$%#$%

[:(]

[marky]

WHOEVER WROTE DOS SHOULD BE SHOT!

[marky]

CLUSTER##$%#$% FUBAR!

[marky]

if i hadnt shaved my head id be tearing out my hair!!!

[marky]

aiii sorry guys just frustrated

[marky]

wheres my easy button...

[frank1970]

I don´t know what your problem is. The text is quite understandable if you studied DOS! [:D]

[marky]

i didnt[:D]

[marky]

and its easy for a sceintist and asssistant professor to say that! [:D][:D]

gigglez

[frank1970]

ORIGINAL: marky

and its easy for a sceintist and asssistant professor to say that! [:D][:D]

gigglez

exactly!

And I was a gamer in the 80s, so I had to learn how to optimize your Config.sys and autoexec.bat. The first real help was a application called memmaker, which was quite good im giving the right amount of memory for your games.Much better was Qemm.
Whoever was able to get more than 620KB was really quite good.

[marky]

well while u were playin around with dos i wasnt even a twinkle in my dads eye, old man [:D]

gigglez

[frank1970]

ORIGINAL: marky

well while u were playin around with dos i wasnt even a twinkle in my dads eye, old man [:D]

gigglez

Sometimes it has to have advantages to be old, my boy!

[marky]

yes indeeed.

i cant wait till i have sum money and steady income [:)]


i just gotta decide wat degree to get first [:D]

[wdolson]

GUIs have made people soft. After some of the beasts I've struggled with, DOS was a walk in the park.

If you have a copy of DOS, or even Windows 95/98, you can download Virtual PC from Microsoft. They give it away now. It creates a separate system on your computer that is a virtual PC within Windows XP (or 2000). I've run a number of old DOS games quite well this way.

You still need to format the virtual drive and install the new operating system, but once setup, it's like you have a separate computer running that OS. I found it much easier to deal with than DosBox.

Bill