Running a DOS game in Windows XP

[marky]

hmm

and its safe and it wont hurt anything?

[marky]

like how easy would it be tyo get it running?

[marky]

im running Windows XP btw

[wdolson]

ORIGINAL: marky

hmm

and its safe and it wont hurt anything?

It takes up some disk space, but I never had any problems.

Bill

[marky]

thanky [:)]

[JamesM]

Marky,

Have you thought of dual booting?

I have win98 and winxp.

[marky]

wish i had a readme for it

[wworld7]

ORIGINAL: marky

WHOEVER WROTE DOS SHOULD BE SHOT!

Marky,

DOS, In my humble opinion was and is much easier to figure out and configure than Windows.

Yes, I am older, but DOS is your friend, it is Windows that is with the Darkside...

Flipper

[frank1970]

No, it were those windows versions above 3.X. until then everything was fine.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: flipperwasirish

ORIGINAL: marky

WHOEVER WROTE DOS SHOULD BE SHOT!

Marky,

DOS, In my humble opinion was and is much easier to figure out and configure than Windows.

Yes, I am older, but DOS is your friend, it is Windows that is with the Darkside...

Flipper

too true... [:D]

[Nikademus]

Has anyone ever had any success with XP's "Compatability" mode? I've never gotten any use out of it. (and maintain a Win98box for DOS games)

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

Has anyone ever had any success with XP's "Compatability" mode? I've never gotten any use out of it. (and maintain a Win98box for DOS games)

Nope - it doesn't work.

The best way to play old DOS games is to use "DOS Box" (or similar program).

Few years ago I wrote about it here when I described how to run old classics from Avalon Hill (World at War: Operation crusader, World at War: Stalingrad and World at War: D-Day - America Invades).

Please try to search for that thread!


Leo "Apollo11"

[marky]

aiii i tried dosbiox

i almost tosssed my computer out the frakkin window[X(]

[AlexCobra]

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.

Hi

My God, another gamer who knows what Config.sys and Autoexec.bat are about? A really rare thing in our days. Btw, imho Memmaker was great, but QEMM was crap, and I insist on that:-). Never had a success optimizing memory with QEMM.

And I do run DOS games with DOSBOX program with no problems. Don't think it's interface can be a problem also.

Alex.

[m10bob]

ORIGINAL: Frank

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.

I was getting 634kb prior to acquiring QEMM. Don't remember which game needed the HIMEM, I believe it was TANKS!(Wargames Construction Set and Carrier Strike)?
QEMM made it easier(automatic),but caused me to forget all I had learned...
Long time ago..
I hang onto my old games, hoping some fine-haired sonovabitch will make Windows DOS-friendly, (as it was promised early on)..[:@]

[wdolson]

ORIGINAL: AlexCobra

My God, another gamer who knows what Config.sys and Autoexec.bat are about? A really rare thing in our days. Btw, imho Memmaker was great, but QEMM was crap, and I insist on that:-). Never had a success optimizing memory with QEMM.

And I do run DOS games with DOSBOX program with no problems. Don't think it's interface can be a problem also.

Alex.

I was programming DOS back in the day. In Assembly. Device drivers. That was a lot of fun. I'm spoiled with C++ these days.

As I said above, look into VirtualPC to run the old DOS games. You'll have to dig out DOS to install on the new virtual machine, but it's the best way I've found to run them without setting up a separate PC with an older version of Windows or DOS on it.

Microsoft bought VirtualPC not that long ago, so they haven't messed it up yet. I've heard it's free for download now.

Bill

[rtrapasso]

The problem with installing DOS as a partition is that there are often (generally?) no device drivers for things like your DVD-drive, mouse, etc. This makes it difficult to even install a DOS game you have in some cases.

[wworld7]

ORIGINAL: AlexCobra

Memmaker was great,

Wow, that brings back old memories (some good and some not so good).

Flipper

P.S. One good thing between the old days and now is NO MORE dip switches. My eyes couldn't handle that if I had to do those again...

Irish

[Nikademus]

ah memories......

NOT ENOUGH MEMORY.

wait a min....i have 4 megs.....

NOT ENOUGH MEMORY

oh....only the first 640k counts.....gotta config high MEM.....only have 455k free

fiddle fiddle fiddle

cool now have 510k

NOT ENOUGH MEMORY

(*&(!!!

fiddle fiddle fiddle

[:)]

[rtrapasso]

[:D] [:D]

i had something like 23 batch files to install correct configurations to run various programs...