Need help installing old school PC games

[Fatal Rose]

These old school installation methods are driving me crazy. Can someone please help me?

Witch one do I pick?

after that i'll take another print screen so you guys can help me with the next step.

[wacko_jacko]

Try the soundblaster option. If you have trouble playing the game after its installed, try using the dos emulator, i think its called doswin or something.

[Fatal Rose]

Ok thanks man, I did not even think about using a dos emulator.

[Wizard]

Dosbox, google, perfect for old dos games.

[Agozer]

As old games run very poorly on newer systems, DOSBox is an absolute requirement. Fatal, just remember to read the docs carefully.

[Fatal Rose]

DosBox is kinda hard to use. Anyone with skills in dosbox hit me up in AIM.

[Agozer]

DosBox is kinda hard to use. Anyone with skills in dosbox hit me up in AIM.

If you insist.

[wacko_jacko]

If i remember correctly, don't you just have to drag the game folder into the dosbox.exe, then type the gamename.exe you want to run.

[Agozer]

If i remember correctly, don't you just have to drag the game folder into the dosbox.exe, then type the gamename.exe you want to run.

Yes, I think it works like that too, for the DOS illiterates. I like to teach it the oldschool way.

Edited January 13, 2005 by Agozer

[Wizard]

Agozer likes his dos games and his emulation old school.

 

Go go cmdpromot!

[Agozer]

Yeah, commnad line tools and applications are the air I breathe.

 

@Fatal: Sorry for the sudden disappearance, my modem went dead. If you have more questions, ask them here or force me to login to AIM.

[Robert]

These old school installation methods are driving me crazy. Can someone please help me?

Witch one do I pick?

after that i'll take another print screen so you guys can help me with the next step.

Well I think we got right off track somewhere.

 

I'm not familiar with Amazon, but most of these games

allow you to run the sound setup again and choose something

else. Therefore try Adlib firstly, hopefully you get music. If so,

then try the SoundBlaster. If it works, then you will get some

additional sounds such as voices and explosions. Now XP does

a mapping so that choosing IRQ5, I/O 220, DMA1 is the best

choice. If nothing works, it hangs the pc, or runs extremely slowly, then choose pc speaker. It will sound horrible but you get something.

 

If the above doesn't work and you insist on full sound, then either

get a plug-in soundcard rather than the onboard one and set it for

the IRQ etc as above; and/or use the programs that the other

members have suggested.

[Fatal Rose]

Yeah, commnad line tools and applications are the air I breathe.

 

@Fatal: Sorry for the sudden disappearance, my modem went dead. If you have more questions, ask them here or force me to login to AIM.

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It's cool man, I imagined it was something like that. Thanks for the useful tips Rob.

[Agozer]

The basic rule is that you should try to run DOS games from XP's Command Prompt in the first place, since it isn't DOS, and only poorly emulates just the critical parts.

 

Sure, some simple DOS applications do run, but when it comes to games, trying to get plyable stuff or evensound is pretty much a no-go in most cases. XP doesn't try to emulate SB and it lacks most of the SB sound routines. There is is this program called VMDSound (or VDMSound) that emulates SoundBlaster and other cards under XP.

 

There are some exceptions though.

Edited January 13, 2005 by Agozer

[Fatal Rose]

Yeah I know of that program, for some reason it does not work on my PC.

Edited January 14, 2005 by Fatal Rose