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Title: DOS games
Post by: KG45 on May 11, 2003, 08:36:09 PM

hope this is ok topic for this forum

got some older DOS games i'd like to revisit - Flying Corp, JFIII and some others. but got a fairly new comp with windoze XP.

any easy way of getting these games to run?

Title: DOS games
Post by: ALF on May 11, 2003, 10:43:47 PM

I dont know about the more high end DOS games, but there is a GREAT program I found that plays most dos games on XP.

 DOS BOX (http://dosbox.sourceforge.net)


You have to "mount" the game directory in the program from a DOS prompt, but its easy to do once you figure it out, and while its not perfect...its damned nice.

Title: DOS games
Post by: KG45 on May 13, 2003, 09:38:45 PM

thanks, will give it a try!

Title: DOS games
Post by: Eagler on May 14, 2003, 06:42:58 AM

then after hours of trying to get them to run, they do and you stare at the screen and wonder why you thought it was a good idea to bring them back from the dead :)

their time has past as you'll see when you get them running ...

Title: DOS games
Post by: Reschke on May 14, 2003, 11:53:00 AM

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Originally posted by Eagler
then after hours of trying to get them to run, they do and you stare at the screen and wonder why you thought it was a good idea to bring them back from the dead :)

their time has past as you'll see when you get them running ...

The only games I have gotten running on XP that were worth it were the X-Com 1&2 games. For everything else I don't worry about it. I still have a Win98SE box running (my mother-in-laws computer) that I now put all the DOS games on to play. Its just a hassle to play them now with all the kick butt graphics games out there.

Title: DOS games
Post by: bigUC on May 14, 2003, 12:54:05 PM

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Originally posted by Reschke
The only games I have gotten running on XP that were worth it were the X-Com 1&2 games. For everything else I don't worry about it. I still have a Win98SE box running (my mother-in-laws computer) that I now put all the DOS games on to play. Its just a hassle to play them now with all the kick butt graphics games out there.

Just reinstalled X-com myself.  Runs fine on win2k if you disable directdraw.  Its still a kick-ass game!

Title: DOS games
Post by: Tarmac on May 15, 2003, 01:25:19 PM

How'd you guys get XCOM to run?  I've tried putting it on my computer (with 98, 98SE and XP), and using some kind of CPU slowdown program, but I can never get it to work.  I got it to work in 98, but the controls were far too fast - the globe would spin around 2 or 3 times with even the shortest click.  I always end up going down in the basement and digging out the old pentium 75mhz when I'm in an XCOM mood.

Title: DOS games
Post by: Wanker on May 15, 2003, 02:02:20 PM

X-COM was a great game. Gets my vote as best PC game of all time.

Title: DOS games
Post by: bfreek on May 15, 2003, 07:56:52 PM

tried 'Old Dog'  Dos out once, ran about 3000x to fast to play.


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