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Run from CD
Name: cypherzero Date: June 22, 2005 at 13:14:29 Pacific OS: WindowXP CPU/Ram: 2.8GHz 512Mb
Comment:
I want to play my old DOS games, namely Settlers 2, but in XP the graphics are corrupt. (My LCD monitor can't cope with different refresh rates).
I don't have a floppy drive and I don't want to partition my hard disk!
Soooo... I was wondering if DOS could be run at all from a CD, and how I might go about doing this.
I have DOS on an old 486, but how do I get it onto the CD (if I can run it from CD)?
Name: hiho Date: June 22, 2005 at 13:27:58 Pacific
Reply:
MS-DOS was never meant to be run from CD, this is another NT stylee question. Do a google for Windows NT emulation software like DOSBOX.
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Response Number 2
Name: hiho Date: June 22, 2005 at 13:29:38 Pacific
Reply:
FYI CD Drives were not common till ten years ago long after the evolution of MS/PC DOS from CP/M which is now 40 years old.
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Response Number 3
Name: jboy Date: June 22, 2005 at 13:33:07 Pacific
Reply:
You should be able to create a bootable CD with your burning software and a boot floppy (or an image of one) - check your documentation.
If you hope to access your hard drive from a DOS session, be aware that old versions of M$-DOS could only read FAT16 partitions, and "Win9x DOS" (aka DOS7.1), while able to read FAT32 (large disks, >2Gb), could not read the NTFS file system often used on NT based Windows such as XP.
Many find it simpler to run 'DOSBox' or other emulator - - or just run the game on your 486
Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. -John Wayne
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Response Number 4
Name: hiho Date: June 22, 2005 at 13:34:05 Pacific
Reply:
...should be 30 years...
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Response Number 5
Name: cypherzero Date: June 22, 2005 at 16:34:05 Pacific
Reply:
My 486 doesn't have a CD drive, nor a working mouse. DOSBox is far to slow. But cheers none the less. I've managed to find a way to get games to work now anyway, I noticed there's a Safe VGA Mode startup in XP, that seems to solve all compatability problems :)
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Response Number 6
Name: jboy Date: June 22, 2005 at 17:14:25 Pacific
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"My 486 doesn't have a CD drive"
?? (let alone 'mouse'?)
Clearly you're missing the point - what.ever.
Happy trails
Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. -John Wayne
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Response Number 7
Name: Petit Jean Date: June 23, 2005 at 04:30:21 Pacific
Reply:
Look for Freedos b9 ISO image and burn a bootable dos CD from this image.Good luck.
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