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I'm searching for a dos emulator for windows because i want to play an old game. If you know an emulator please send me to my email: jens.kra@gmx.de
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How about a DOS emulator for Windows XP?I have a game that won't play.
I even went to the game directory, and opened up every *.exe, *.com, & *.bat - right clicked and went to properties, then compatability and set them all it to run compatable with Windows 95.
The game is still crashing. UFO.exe is causing illegal instructions.
Sound seemed to be causeing a problem early on (possibly because the program was trying to directly reference sound memory locations (which of course XP, being based on NT will not allow)) so i've already disabled all the sound.
Since the sound was disabled, the program partially works, it loads, i can start a new game, but as soon as i select a "base location" (the 1st thing you have to do) the game crashes.
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There's a great x86 (DOS, Windows, Linux, etc.) emulator called Bochs. You can find all the information you need at http://bochs.sourceforge.net. I don't know if it works under WinXP, though. I do know it's free, though, and you can download it at the site above.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks, this will come in hand with many good'ol games that I am unable to play at the moment. Now I don't have to install Win98 :p Of course with the exception that these things _do_ work.
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what patch does ME need to run real-dos mode?
just got my hands of alot of abandonware and my old pc's soundcard is crashed, and my new computer doesn't handle dos at all...
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Pauli, have you tried the emulator yet? Does it work? (Trying ot get X-Com to run? I've been hoping to get my hands on an emulator for the same reason) Will the emulator slow the program down to a reasonable speed? (before I tried to place the base, I used the arrows to spin around the globe, goes faster, I believe, than it did on our older computer, I was hoping there was a way to slow it down?)
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Umm.. actually you can't run a lot of old games under Windows 9x because they don't like DOS 7.x and such. Best thing to do is to go to The Boot Disk Project and download an image for DOS 6.22 (what I'd recommend unless what you're trying to run is very ancient and doesn't even like 6.22) and just boot off of a floppy disk for your DOS support. That way you're running the older DOS and you don't need an emulator, you're running the real thing.
The only problem is that you're restricted to just running that, and nothing else. So if you're trying to run old DOS games under Windows while you run other stuff, then you'll want a virtual machine/emulator of some kind.
To recap: Make a DOS 6.22 boot disk. Boot off of it. That's all you need.
You might set a "PATH=C:\DOS" and put the rest of the DOS install in there so you have full access to all the utils.
Email me if you have any questions about this process.
Trevor Gryffyn
blkgryffyn@yahoo.com
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I've been hoping to play Chuck Yeager's air combat again. My problem is that my joystick is USB and i'm not sure if can get it to work with DOS. Has anyone here had any success on that side of things?
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maybe if you make a bootable cd that makes a 20 mb ramdisk with your game on it...
use and onld hd with your game on it and make it how you would have it if you were going to boot, then cd it, you don't even need a ramdisk if the games will run write protected...
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Check out this PC/DOS emulator at http://dosbox.zophar.net/
DOSBox attempts to emulate DOS, not a full-blown x86 system. It's much easier to setup and it's fast.
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Something really has to be done by microsoft about this problem with nt/2000/xp. If they release an emulator for DOS, why not make it work properly?
IF anyone is interested in previous Os's, i found a version of PCDOS on an abandonware site, they're out there
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I managed to get some older games running from WinXP with a program called VDMS http://ntvdm.cjb.net/
It's mostly for the sound but it handles memory and other stuff too.
I've managed to run the old Ravenloft games and both UFO and Xcom: TFTD
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I'm having a problem with Theme Hostpital (probably not old enough to need an emulator) but on this fairly new system it runs really slowly and without sound. Perhaps a memory problem? any thoughts?
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try to run with the winedition (found in the THWIN folder). if it doesn't work ... i think that it's because of your computer (too slow, not enough RAM or anything else)
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I've had problems with running DOS games too fast as well. However I have found this program to be useful. It's called "MoSlo"
Try running a search for "moslo132.zip" with http://www.google.com/Mo'Slo lets you to slow the speed of your computer to 1-99% of normal
in 1% increments. To use it, you supply the name of the program you
want to run slow as a command line argument. Slowness is adjusted with
a command line switch. If the switch is not supplied, Mo'Slo slows your
computer to approximate a 4.77MHz PC/XT.Detailed intructions are provided in the readme that comes with the program.
Hope that helps. :)--Hunter -X- ©
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There's a program out there somewhere called Abandon Loader. I had it for a little while and it seemed to work ok with dos based games on XP. Unfortunately, I can't remember where I got it from but if you do a search on google.com it'll bring up the url. As far as someone that's just getting sound related errors, I've found that a program called SoundFX2000 worked great to resolve that problem. Hell, it got my Wing Commander 3 game running great and its supposed to be "impossible to run under WinXP" according to Origin and Electronic Arts. I hope I've managed to help at least a few of you out. Oh..... SoundFX2000 is not free. I think it was about $39.00 but it was well worth the price to me. Sure beats that other price for that $1,000 software. By the way, if ANYONE knows how to make a usb joystick work on older games that can only read from the game port, let me know. I just bought a new usb joystick that won't work in my game port when I use a usb to game port connector. It actually conflicts with my sound card. The joystick is a Saitek ST220 Digital Stick and throttle, and the sound card is a Voyetra Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, with Altec Lansing speakers. If anyone can help, please reply to my e-mail and not on here. Thanks in advance
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