Full Version: dos games on win xp
i wanna play my old raptor 2 game on my winxpo system.. i cant run it from the iwn ms dos... i need to get uinto the real ms dos... but f8 at the boot screen dowsnt bring up the ms dos option any more. i tied boooting thru using the winxp 8-1 cd, pressing the win98 boot disk option... but it didnt recognize my c: drive... wha can i do?
I actually have also used DOSBox for my classic-game needs (Privateer, anyone?). Certain games require certain settings changed in the .cfg and it can actually be surprisingly taxing on your hardware. But, if you really wanna play something... it's all worth it.
I have tried using Connectix Virtual PC (now bought out by Microsoft and I can't remember what they've renamed it) as well as DosBox. Both are good at what they do and have enabled me to run quite a few old programs. I can't get the one I REALLY want to play to work satisfactorily though ... Syndicate Wars!!
I LOVE this game and used to play it for days on end on my old Pentium 90 back in the day.
On my new PC though (Prescott 3.0Ghz), it will load and run on both VirtualPC and DosBox, but I simply can't slow it down enough to make it playable.
I LOVE this game and used to play it for days on end on my old Pentium 90 back in the day.
On my new PC though (Prescott 3.0Ghz), it will load and run on both VirtualPC and DosBox, but I simply can't slow it down enough to make it playable.
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