DOS-based golf game help?

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Electronic Arts' PGATour 486 seems to install on my Dell 2400 XP Pro
desktop, but the DOS window just appears briefly, then closes. I'm running
the 2400, which has one graphics/audio chip, at 800X600.

Used to work okay with Win95 at 800X600, but selecting the Compatibility
Wizard for Win95 and selecting the various options doesn't help. With a DOS
command prompt, typing CD \PGA486, then PGA486 (comand), brings up two text
lines in the DOS window:

DOS/46W Professional Protected Mode Runtime Version 1.97
C:PGA486> (c) Rational Systems Inc. 1990-1994
^
The cursor appears at the ^ point above and DOS/46W, if it's running,
doesn't do anything further. (A carriage return just splits the second text
line.)

I've made most of the Properties changes suggested here:
C:\PGA486\FreeLists - adeel420 - [adeel420] Running DOS games on Windows XP
and 2K.htm

but nothing changes. Haven't tried the configuration files changes suggested
about halfway through this freelist file. Prefer not getting into system
changes that might crash my computer, etc. etc., and would rather download a
fix from Microsoft rather than potentially unsafe Internet files.

Any suggestions? Thanks for any advice.
John
 
DosBox 0.65 should be out by the end of the day so keep your eyes glued
to the DosBox page in anticipation.....

Paul said:
John Blake said:
Electronic Arts' PGATour 486 seems to install on my Dell 2400 XP Pro
desktop, but the DOS window just appears briefly, then closes. I'm running
the 2400, which has one graphics/audio chip, at 800X600.

Used to work okay with Win95 at 800X600, but selecting the Compatibility
Wizard for Win95 and selecting the various options doesn't help. With a
DOS command prompt, typing CD \PGA486, then PGA486 (comand), brings up two
text lines in the DOS window:

DOS/46W Professional Protected Mode Runtime Version 1.97
C:PGA486> (c) Rational Systems Inc. 1990-1994
^
The cursor appears at the ^ point above and DOS/46W, if it's running,
doesn't do anything further. (A carriage return just splits the second
text line.)

I've made most of the Properties changes suggested here:
C:\PGA486\FreeLists - adeel420 - [adeel420] Running DOS games on Windows
XP and 2K.htm

but nothing changes. Haven't tried the configuration files changes
suggested about halfway through this freelist file. Prefer not getting
into system changes that might crash my computer, etc. etc., and would
rather download a fix from Microsoft rather than potentially unsafe
Internet files.

Any suggestions? Thanks for any advice.
John
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Windows XP doesn't include DOS of anykind... Only a basic emulation layer
which is pretty useless for most games.

DOSBox is the emulator of choice http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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John Blake said:
Electronic Arts' PGATour 486 seems to install on my Dell 2400 XP Pro
desktop, but the DOS window just appears briefly, then closes. I'm running
the 2400, which has one graphics/audio chip, at 800X600.

Used to work okay with Win95 at 800X600, but selecting the Compatibility
Wizard for Win95 and selecting the various options doesn't help. With a
DOS command prompt, typing CD \PGA486, then PGA486 (comand), brings up two
text lines in the DOS window:

DOS/46W Professional Protected Mode Runtime Version 1.97
C:PGA486> (c) Rational Systems Inc. 1990-1994
^
The cursor appears at the ^ point above and DOS/46W, if it's running,
doesn't do anything further. (A carriage return just splits the second
text line.)

I've made most of the Properties changes suggested here:
C:\PGA486\FreeLists - adeel420 - [adeel420] Running DOS games on Windows
XP and 2K.htm

but nothing changes. Haven't tried the configuration files changes
suggested about halfway through this freelist file. Prefer not getting
into system changes that might crash my computer, etc. etc., and would
rather download a fix from Microsoft rather than potentially unsafe
Internet files.

Any suggestions? Thanks for any advice.
John
Click to expand...

Windows XP doesn't include DOS of anykind... Only a basic emulation layer
which is pretty useless for most games.

DOSBox is the emulator of choice http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

*Remove 'nospam.' to reply by e-mail*
 
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