Computer error message HELP

[TwoSeven]

The command window isnt dos. Its the win32 command interpreter. Different program.

[Teflon]

Another solution is, dual-boot XP and Windows 98.

[StoneChucker]

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.

[Jeremy]

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.

[phaedrus]

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.

you might want to try "scummvm" as a replacement game engine for day of the tentacle.
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)
[edit]
ok, i should read more before posting. the doom prog won't run hexen

[Gremlin]

I run a really old DOS comms programme when doing maintenance on some VoiceMail systems. To run it on my XP Home (SP2) system I just click Start, then Run and then type command. It comes up with a DOS window and I type in the neccessary commands to start and run the comms programme.

I type exit at the command prompt to get back to Windows. Alt-Enter it goes full screen. Alt-Enter toggles it back.

It doesn't work anymore I got the same error as quasi, hope you don't have SP2... pic attached

[DingDong]

ARRR fuck it i got delta force 3, 4 and 5 will run them


Thanks heaps guys and girls

Thats the key... I've got BF veitnam cracked and Doom3 too if you get my drift everything eventually becomes FREE

[Zed]

Im trying to load a few games for the kids, the current one has come up with an error message saying this,

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. the system file is not suitable for running MS.DOS and microsoft Windows applications choose close to terminate the application.

Can anyone help, Im getting this a bit.

The computer is new and flash running XP

Just spend 10,000 dollars and become a computer *geek* why don't ya Quasi!? You can do it man.

[pyrocam]

Just spend 10,000 dollars and become a computer *geek* why don't ya Quasi!? You can do it man.

or even better. hire a professional geek (IE: Myself) to do it for you.
ill give you a KB discount. only charge you half that

[aff-man]

the game is called

Delta Force 2

came out a while ago

Delts force had a heap of problems but i found xp don't like some of them games

[pyrocam]

Delts force had a heap of problems but i found xp don't like some of them games

I downloaded the demo for delta force 2. just to test it out. worked fine although who would WANT to get that working

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

[Jeremy]

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:

dos=high, umb
device=%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\himem.sys
files=40

Autoexec.nt

@echo off
    lh %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\mscdexnt.exe
    lh %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\redir
    lh %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\dosx
    SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 P330 T3

Place them in system32 and away you go.