running old/dos games in Win XP

[ibex333]

I have some old games, namely Need for speed SE and Need for Speed 2. I cannot run them in win XP, and when i try compatibility mode for win 95, it runs, but the sound is garbled, and the game crashes as soon as I select a car.
Jungle Strike doesnt even start. Says I dont have enough memory. Heh... 1 gig is not enough for a DOS game? Ok ok.. I know there's more involved in it than that.
Can someone help, and tell me what can I do to run these games? Thanx.

 

[Maetryx]

VOGONS = very old games on new systems
DOSBOX = a dos emulator for windows

 

[GullyFoyle]

Originally posted by: Maetryx
VOGONS = very old games on new systems
DOSBOX = a dos emulator for windows

Yes! I was able to use DOSBox to play Aces over the Pacific on XP...

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1

 

[SirPsycho]

DOSBox is great. I used it to play Syndicate a while back... I always liked that game.

 

[Continuity28]

Anyone remember Imperium Galactica?

 

[spherrod]

Originally posted by: SirPsycho
DOSBox is great. I used it to play Syndicate a while back... I always liked that game.

Great game - really enjoyed that, particuarly the Atlantic Accelerator mission

 

[ndee]

Played California Games with DOSBOX

 

[PingSpike]

Yeah, I recently discovered dosbox. Sweet little app.

 

[ibex333]

Dosbox doesnt seem to help. When I try to run NFS with it, it says "This is a Windows NT windowed executable." the game doesnt launch

 

[Pyxis]

Cool...maybe now I can get Tiefighter to work!

 

[Schadenfroh]

Moslow is a great tool for slowing down your CPU for older games.

 

[Malak]

Originally posted by: ibex333
Dosbox doesnt seem to help. When I try to run NFS with it, it says "This is a Windows NT windowed executable." the game doesnt launch

What are the requirements for NFS? Sounds like it was designed for NT-based machines, not DOS. Then again, Dosbox could be wrong. XP = NT based.

 

[fustercluck]

Thought i'd just bump this thread since i have a question. Dosbox says my C drive is not mounted, don't know what the hell it's talking about. Anyone have any ideas? I'm dying to play some paratrooper

 

[GullyFoyle]

Originally posted by: jacktackle
Thought i'd just bump this thread since i have a question. Dosbox says my C drive is not mounted, don't know what the hell it's talking about. Anyone have any ideas? I'm dying to play some paratrooper

Read the Readme file...here a small snippet:

======
Usage:
======

dosbox [name] [-exit] [-c command] [-fullscreen] [-conf congfigfile]
[-lang languagefile] [-machine machinetype] [-noconsole]

name
If "name" is a directory it'll mount that as the C: drive.
If "name" is an executable it'll mount the directory of "name"
as the C: drive and execute "name".

 

[0roo0roo]

boot to dos?

 

[necro007]

I have Windows XP ser pack 2, which one do i download?

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/download....ssion=4dcacca3dbaa5b779b22a607dbd83b50

 

[fustercluck]

Originally posted by: DanDeighan

Originally posted by: jacktackle
Thought i'd just bump this thread since i have a question. Dosbox says my C drive is not mounted, don't know what the hell it's talking about. Anyone have any ideas? I'm dying to play some paratrooper

Read the Readme file...here a small snippet:

======
Usage:
======

dosbox [name] [-exit] [-c command] [-fullscreen] [-conf congfigfile]
[-lang languagefile] [-machine machinetype] [-noconsole]

name
If "name" is a directory it'll mount that as the C: drive.
If "name" is an executable it'll mount the directory of "name"
as the C: drive and execute "name".

I don't get it, this junk is confusing. Sure there isn't a better Dos emulator out there?

 

[CrackRabbit]

Originally posted by: jacktackle

Originally posted by: DanDeighan

Originally posted by: jacktackle
Thought i'd just bump this thread since i have a question. Dosbox says my C drive is not mounted, don't know what the hell it's talking about. Anyone have any ideas? I'm dying to play some paratrooper

Read the Readme file...here a small snippet:

======
Usage:
======

dosbox [name] [-exit] [-c command] [-fullscreen] [-conf congfigfile]
[-lang languagefile] [-machine machinetype] [-noconsole]

name
If "name" is a directory it'll mount that as the C: drive.
If "name" is an executable it'll mount the directory of "name"
as the C: drive and execute "name".

I don't get it, this junk is confusing. Sure there isn't a better Dos emulator out there?

Yep, A Pentium 233 with 64 mb of ram with windows 95b and a Soundblaster AWE32 or AWE64

 

[GullyFoyle]

Originally posted by: jacktackle

Originally posted by: DanDeighan

Originally posted by: jacktackle
Thought i'd just bump this thread since i have a question. Dosbox says my C drive is not mounted, don't know what the hell it's talking about. Anyone have any ideas? I'm dying to play some paratrooper

Read the Readme file...here a small snippet:

======
Usage:
======

dosbox [name] [-exit] [-c command] [-fullscreen] [-conf congfigfile]
[-lang languagefile] [-machine machinetype] [-noconsole]

name
If "name" is a directory it'll mount that as the C: drive.
If "name" is an executable it'll mount the directory of "name"
as the C: drive and execute "name".

I don't get it, this junk is confusing. Sure there isn't a better Dos emulator out there?

It sounds to me like your problem is you don't know anything about DOS. A better DOS emulator is not what you want, you want a windows program to hold your hand. Look in to the front-end programs available here.

 

[GullyFoyle]

Originally posted by: necro007
I have Windows XP ser pack 2, which one do i download?

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/download....ssion=4dcacca3dbaa5b779b22a607dbd83b50

The one that says "Windows". Most of the others are for flavors of Unix.

 

[Xyclone]

DOSbox actually works pretty well, I recommend it.

 

[xgsound]

Dosbox is hard to beat for any dos - based games. However it will not run windows based games including games based on win 3.1 (no enhanced mode). They have forums and FAQs to brush up on your dos commands and how the program redefines where your HD, CD, and memory are.

For the Lucas Arts games there is http://www.scummvm.org that has a smoother interface for the games it supports (Monkey Island, Fate of Atlantis, Sam n Max, Day of the Tentacle).

For games based on the earlier than XP windows versions, I believe you may have to use Vmware which I am not familiar with.


Jim

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Yeah, I recently discovered dosbox. Sweet little app.

 

[The Sly Syl]

Whenever i find a way to run Tyrian (2000 preferably) on an XP system without it being slowed to a crawl, i will be happy.

Dosbox doesn't work, neither does anything else i've tried. =(

 

[fustercluck]

I don't know what a frontend is.

The game i want to play is in C:\Downloads\ptrooper\ptrooper.com - How can i launch it in dosbox? It still shows at Z:\, won't let me mount C.