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Dos emulation on xp
Name: Lichtenlade Date: July 28, 2002 at 21:39:34 Pacific
Comment:
Help! I am running a dos game on xp. It works, but it is sooo slow. Any suggestions??
Name: sniper22 Date: July 29, 2002 at 09:38:36 Pacific
Reply:
What game are you trying to play?
You can attempt to run the game using the DOSBox emulator, but XP support isn't completely finished yet. Get it here. http://dosbox.zophar.net/
I use Windows 2000 and what I did was create a small Fat16 partition on my drive (~500mb). You don't have to make it bootable. Install the game on that partition. Get a Dos 6.22 boot disk and boot the computer with it. It will find that Fat16 partition and use it as the C: drive. Then you can run the game from pure Dos.
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Response Number 2
Name: Miskva Date: July 29, 2002 at 14:31:55 Pacific
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Buy an old pc (50$), install DOS, and it will not run better on *ANY* other new pc.
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Response Number 3
Name: Cathy Thompson Date: July 30, 2002 at 15:05:53 Pacific
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I have an MS DOS pedigree program with some 5000 dogs in it which I have been able to run from an MSDOS Prompt under windows98.
I have just purchased a new PC with Windows XP Home Edition and can find no equivalent MSDOS prompt on XP. I have tried copying the MSDOS aplication program files from the old PC and although a window opens it closes imediately.
Any other sugestions? Thanks
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Response Number 4
Name: joecool Date: August 2, 2002 at 20:49:59 Pacific
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press start button then go to run and type in cmd and the press ok also the program should run under xp as 98
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