The command window isnt dos. Its the win32 command interpreter. Different program.
The command window isnt dos. Its the win32 command interpreter. Different program.
The contents of this post are my opinion and may not be subjected to any form of reality
It means I'm not an authority or a teacher, and may not have any experience so take things with a pinch of salt (a.k.a bullshit) rather than fact
Another solution is, dual-boot XP and Windows 98.
Ahh, I've got these on disk, but they don't play properly anymore
Rise Of The Triad
Day Of The Tentacle
Doom, Doom 2
Heretic
Hexen
Duke Nukem
Arena (The Elder Scrolls)
Think I've even got California Games 1 somewhere.??? The CD's probably disintegrated by now.
I can get those to work, (except for Arena as I don't have that).
Here's the tricks that you often need to use:
Windows is probably working fine, patch the game first.
If it runs in Dos and it's an older dos game (286) it'll probably run on Dosbox. The games that Dosbox doesn't like are newer dos games (486 DX4 games).
Getting the sound working can be a real bitch. You might never get the soundcard option working, (unless you currently have a soundblaster). However the General Midi option for music will nearly always work. Some games have "microsoft sound" as a soundcard driver. This works sometimes, no idea why though. Might be a really old version of DX.
Setting up a small partition for Win98 is a posibility however it's probably easier to get an old K6-2, chuck in a sb16 (or any other soundblaster) and install Win98SE on it as a second computer.
you might want to try "scummvm" as a replacement game engine for day of the tentacle.Originally Posted by StoneChucker
http://www.scummvm.org/
and http://legacy.newdoom.com should get your doom, doom2, heretic and hexen going (in windows and with tcp/ip networking)
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ok, i should read more before posting. the doom prog won't run hexen
Last edited by phaedrus; 22nd June 2005 at 01:41.
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Originally Posted by speedpro
It doesn't work anymore I got the same error as quasi, hope you don't have SP2... pic attached
Originally Posted by Jane Omorogbe from UK MSN on the KTM990SM
Thats the key... I've got BF veitnam cracked and Doom3 too if you get my drift everything eventually becomes FREEOriginally Posted by Quasievil
Just spend 10,000 dollars and become a computer *geek* why don't ya Quasi!? You can do it man.Originally Posted by Quasievil
or even better. hire a professional geek (IE: Myself) to do it for you.Originally Posted by Zed
ill give you a KB discount. only charge you half that
I only posted this because of the global economic crisis
Delts force had a heap of problems but i found xp don't like some of them gamesOriginally Posted by Quasievil
Lump lingered last in line for brains,
And the ones she got were sort of rotten and insane...
I downloaded the demo for delta force 2. just to test it out. worked fine although who would WANT to get that workingOriginally Posted by aff-man
I could ask you to upload the contents of autoexec.nt here for us 'geeky types' to have a look at.
(c:\autoexec.nt open in notepad)
but most likely, its not going to be super easy, and my previous post about dosbox. dont even bother trying it
cheers
I only posted this because of the global economic crisis
Aha, had a quick check on google and found the problem.
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;324767
Config.nt and Autoexec.nt are both text files.
Config.nt should have:
Autoexec.ntCode:dos=high, umb device=%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\himem.sys files=40
Place them in system32 and away you go.Code:@echo off lh %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\mscdexnt.exe lh %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\redir lh %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\dosx SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 P330 T3
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