ms-dos

[shadowwoelf]

i have windows xp and i want to play some dos games is there any emulator that can help me out here and i do not want to put in windows 98 also on my hd thxs for your help

[onewecallgod]

right click on it -> properties -> compatability -> windows 95 mode

[Lefteris_D]

http://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/compu...dosbox-win.html (http://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/computer/dosbox-win.html)

[shadowwoelf]

how do i use dosbox i am getting mad at it :angry:

[shadowwoelf]

and i tryed the compatabilaitay thing it dont work

[RockY]

In Windows you can just drag directories/files onto the dosbox executable. :)

[nesman]

thats what I do with MAME

[shadowwoelf]

mope all it does is sxtart up and show a nice black screen and then i had to restart my comp cause it wasnt responding and all it says is something about cycles and frames so that dont work at all

[shadowwoelf]

nope*

[RockY]

Ok then... in Windows go to your DOS prompt, enter the dosbox directory and type:

dosbox c:\atlantis\atlantis.exe <---- this is an example of the file you want to run.

[shadowwoelf]

ummm how do i enter dos prompt

[onewecallgod]

start -> run -> type "command" minus the quotes

[shadowwoelf]

ok i must be doing something wrong
i went into the command and there was this
c:\docume~1\nobody>
then i typed in
c:\docume~1\nobody>c:\dosbox-0.61\dosbox.exe
and when that didnt work i typed in this
c:\docume~1\nobody>c:\dosbox-0.61\game.exe

what did i do wrong??? :unsure:

[RockY]

dude.. where did u save dosbox?

I mean the location

[shadowwoelf]

i saved it like any other program into my program directories if that is what u r asking for

[Mourgos]

Then I guess you have to give the command when you're in that directory and not inside "c:\docume~1\nobody>"

[RockY]

Originally posted by Mourgos@Jul 29 2004, 11:38 AM
Then I guess you have to give the command when you're in that directory and not inside "c:\docume~1\nobody>"
Exactly

Let’s say I saved it at: c:\dosbox and I want to play Atlantis game.
So I must type:


c:\dosbox\dosbox c:\atlantis\atlantis.exe

[shadowwoelf]

argh it says error when i am trying to run dos box and by the way how come whenever i launch dosbox it shows an empty back screen???

[shadowwoelf]

good news i finally some how got my dosbox running so now i can see the text it says

z:\>

and my game is located in

c:\games\game.exe

how do i load the game with the dosbox???

[Cheewie]

Try the commands:
INTRO and HELP

It explains quite good information, example for mounting a drive from your filesystem. Just type <mount c c:/> and c:\ on your drive is c:\ on the shell, etc.

EDIT
this is for dos newbies;
<dir> lists the files in the current directory
<c:> changes drive to c:
<cd games> changes directory to \games
<game.exe> executes the file game.exe (executable files are; *.exe *.com and *.bat)

[shadowwoelf]

ya i already did all that but it still doesnt work it will start the theme thing and then it will just go black :(

[delatour]

try a BOOTDISK for DOS

its sometimes a little bit difficult to find dos drivers for onboard soundcards, but you should get it at soundcard-drivers.com (after the !%(*)!!! registration process)
you also need mouse driver and sometimes a joystick driver (if you own one:)

you can even program a menue in the config.sys file, so that every game works perfect.
i can explain how to write it if someone wants to make a bootdisk.
those were good times....

cheers

[Zach]

Help is wasted on retards every day

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[delatour]

Help is wasted on retards every day

187989238231323942 retards have read this post and agree

my english is not good enough to understand this....

[Robert]

Makes me squirm reading this stuff. I grew up with dos, so of course I can't understand what's so difficult about it.

On the other hand I don't have xp or dosbox... :P

[Monkey Island!!]

If you find dosbox too hard to use you can always try Dos Mate (http://forums.emulator-zone.com/showthread.php?t=2172) which is not as good as DosBox but it alot easier to use as it is styled like modern emulators such as epsxe.