MS-Dos games

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I recently obtained this game called "The Ancient Art of
War" by Broderbund.

This was a great game that i used to play in the mid-80s.

However. when I tried to play it on my Windows XP machine,
the game went by so fast, that it was over before I could
say "ATTACK".

Does anyone have any idea on how to slow down my PC (1.8
Mhz, 256 RAM, Windows XP) so that I can play this game?

Thanks!!!
 
Hi Zoom,

You can get the config.sys / startup.bat information from:
http://j.lahmy.tripod.com/aaow/subp01.htm in order to use
"MoSlo" to slow down that great ole DOS game of yours. :-)

Also try using the Multiboot bootdisk from: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~lpcd/downloads.html

With DOSBOX you can emulate a DOS computer on your XP desktop:
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/information.php Or try MS Virtual PC:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/virtualpc/downloads/trial.asp
which allows you to install DOS or to run any operating system inside XP.

If you prefer to explore other advanced methods, here are two excellent
tutorials I've found on the subject: http://www.dosgames.com/xphints.php
and: http://home.earthlink.net/~angeldancer27/XpGameList.htm which have
links to MoSlo which I mentioned to you in the first paragraph. Good luck! :-)

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Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

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| I recently obtained this game called "The Ancient Art of
| War" by Broderbund.
|
| This was a great game that i used to play in the mid-80s.
|
| However. when I tried to play it on my Windows XP machine,
| the game went by so fast, that it was over before I could
| say "ATTACK".
|
| Does anyone have any idea on how to slow down my PC (1.8
| Mhz, 256 RAM, Windows XP) so that I can play this game?
|
| Thanks!!!
 
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