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play dos games in winme
Name: octo Date: January 22, 2003 at 10:37:53 Pacific OS: winMe CPU/Ram: 950/256
Comment:
lo,
I've recently foun dthe urge to play a PINBALL game!! and whats the best pinball game classic? Pinball fantasies of course...
ahh 1 problem, i run winMe and PF is a dos game, winme h8s dos, i create a boot disk (conventional style) to boot in dos but it fails. I find my old win98 bootdisk that came with win98 and booted, still doesn't work. So i altered the config.sys adding the usual himem.sys and emm386.exe lines doesn't work.
So finally can I ask, how on earth can i play PF? I d/led a bootdisk from bootdisk.com but they already said that the easiest way was to conventionally make my own. ne ideas... pls!!! i wanna play stones'n'bones table :D
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