i was going to play DUke Nukem 3D on my laptop on which i intsalled Windows 2000 Professional because XP wouldnt work and 98SE sucks for networking (this laptop is connected through 802.11b+g to my home LAN). the specs are: 233mhz Pentium 112mb RAM 6gb hard drive 2mb video memory the game Duke Nukem 3D starts and then stops and exits again. i am assuming incompatibility with Windows 2000 Pro, and i have already tried the latest version of DOSBox, it wont start for some reason. how can i play this and other DOS games in Windows 2000 Pro without conflicts and errors. the laptop has no floppy or i would simply boot in with an MS-DOS boot disk. PLEASE ADVISE!! THANX!!

"the laptop has no floppy or i would simply boot in with an MS-DOS boot disk." So... creating a bootable DOS CD never occurred to you? Or is there no CD drive as well? DOS ISOs If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers

i didnt know there was a way to do a bootable DOS CD... thanx though. but is there any way to play DOS games from Windows 2K Pro?????

Look for a program called VDMSound. It is a soundcard and 'other legacy hardware' emulator for DOS games on XP/2000. It may do the trick.

"i didnt know there was a way to do a bootable DOS CD Are you josh-ing? Without a floppy drive, ya hafta boot from *something* for troubleshooting or installing a different OS Only helpful if your HDD is FAT32 though - as well, modern soundcards may not be compatible with games from that era (if even present) Not exactly the best specs for 2K either, but, whatever If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers

well i know that 98SE and stuff boot off the CD-ROM and some of the older OSes boot track booted to MS-DOS but i thought those were all based on such and such version of windows, all i mean is i didnt know there were stand alone ones.

Win9x & ME are dependant upon a DOS boot - regardless, a CD is just another boot device, anything that can be run from a floppy can likewise be run from a CD (and then some) Computing 101 If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers