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Title: No DOS Prompt
Post by: Seagoon on July 16, 2007, 05:36:15 PM

Hi Guys,

I found an old 1998 copy of Axis & Allies and decided try to install it as it is my day off and I loved the old board game.

When I click on SETUP off the DVD nothing happens, additionally I've found I can no longer get a DOS prompt in XP by typing COMMAND on the run line. I'm guessing somewhere along the line either I or one of my fix-it programs has messed with the registry setting for this. Anyone got any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks!

- SEAGOON

Title: No DOS Prompt
Post by: ChickenHawk on July 16, 2007, 05:49:48 PM

Try running CMD instead of COMMAND.

It could be a path problem in which case you could browse to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\COMMAND.COM and double click on it.

If the file is missing, then you need to restore it.

EDIT:  Another thing you can try is Start\All Programs\Accessories\command prompt

Title: No DOS Prompt
Post by: Mr No Name on July 16, 2007, 05:54:27 PM

CMD is your pal!

Title: No DOS Prompt
Post by: Seagoon on July 16, 2007, 06:30:16 PM

Hi Guys,

CMD worked and I found COMMAND.COM at the proper location. How do I restore the path? Also, any idea as to why a 16 bit game wouldn't work?

Thanks again.

- SEAGOON

Title: No DOS Prompt
Post by: soda72 on July 16, 2007, 06:35:27 PM

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox (http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox)

You might find this DOS emulator useful, if you can not get it to work in XP...

I used it about 2 years ago on an old DOS game called 'Crusader: No remorse' and it worked pretty good...

Title: No DOS Prompt
Post by: Meatwad on July 16, 2007, 06:35:46 PM

What version of OS are you running?

the command prompt under XP is not a real DOS type prompt. May have to go 95 and under?

Title: No DOS Prompt
Post by: tedrbr on July 16, 2007, 08:49:12 PM

Since I don't like multi-booting Windows boxes, I may have to cobble together an old Win95 or Win98 machine again in order to play some of my old DOS games.  Still have Crusader, No Remorse, Shadow Company, M1 Tank Platoon, Interstate '76, and Cutthroats among my old collection.    

Kind of miss some of the old titles at times.

Avoiding Vista for the foreseeable future.  Nothing I've heard so far interests me at all in the new OS.  I suppose some game at some point down the road will force me into it.... but not anytime soon.

Title: No DOS Prompt
Post by: Ack-Ack on July 16, 2007, 08:55:16 PM

Just use a DOS emulator and you should be able to get any DOS game working in XP.  Just have to find the right DOS emulator.  One that I use and highly recommend is DOSBox (http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1).  Unlike a lot of DOS emulators, it's always undergoing updates for added support and it will also play the sound for the game which quite a few emulators don't do.


hope this helps.


ack-ack

Title: No DOS Prompt
Post by: Seagoon on July 16, 2007, 09:28:32 PM

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the link to DOSBox, it actually solved an unrelated but long-nagging problem - namely how to play Great Naval Battles II: Guadalcanal under XP (I'd given up on that one).

It seems that Axis and Allies isn't a DOS game, it seems to be a Windows 95 game (16 bit?) and doesn't want to even install. I'm at a loss at this point.

Title: No DOS Prompt
Post by: Elfie on July 16, 2007, 09:48:57 PM

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It seems that Axis and Allies isn't a DOS game, it seems to be a Windows 95 game (16 bit?) and doesn't want to even install. I'm at a loss at this point.

AirWarrior 3D was a windows 95 game, wouldn't install Win XP so I could play the missions anymore so I ended up tossing it in the circular file. :(