Dos based games and XP Pro(NTFS)

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Dave Hannam

My son likes some older Dos based games, any way of getting them to run on
XP Pro, I have tried one that had a W95 patch, but it just crashes back to
the desktop. I have tried changing the compatability option, but still no
good? Thanks, Dave.
 
As a foot note to Cs' post,...if you have enough memory,(256 or more), you
can burn a DOS boot disk and run virtually everything you want to run from
the CD, without ever having to access the HD.
Example: I have several old DOS games,..and when I say several remember we
are talking about DOS, so 10 megs of games is alot.
I have all the games burned to a CD that is also a boot disk,...I never even
see a windows enviroment, its straight pure DOS.
Are there any drawbacks?
Yep,
Dos does not recoginize my gig of ram, and I have to load all the drivers in
the autoexec.bat and/or config.sys files that I have set up on the disk.
It took some work, but it works,..:)
BTW,..my first HD was a 10meg, ram was 640K, CD's with 700mb's of storage
are bigger than anything I owned all the way up to 1996.
I will never forget how BIG a 120mb HD was,..it was huge at the time,..:)
 
Dave said:
My son likes some older Dos based games, any way of getting them to run on
XP Pro, I have tried one that had a W95 patch, but it just crashes back to
the desktop. I have tried changing the compatability option, but still no
good?
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A lot of old DOS games were written on the assumption that they were
running on a bare machine (with a small distraction called DOS pushed to
one side) and that they could do what they liked directly with the
hardware. XP will emphatically refuse to allow a program to do any such
thing, The only way with such a game is to boot a genuine DOS - either
use a Win98 startup floppy and boot that, or make a small separate
partition on the disk and install a genuine DOS there, using a boot
manager to choose which system to use
 
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