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Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 11:33:24 AM   
marky


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im trying to get my copy of the old SSN21 Seawolf game running on my computer

i miss playing it, but its in DOS, and i have no clue how to get it running

pleeeeaz help me get this game running i missed playin it!

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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 12:14:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		Try using DosBox emulator.

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/

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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 12:15:30 PM   
marky


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wat about a DOS bopot disk?

thats wat i use to use, my brother in law made it, but i cant find the damn thing


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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 12:39:37 PM   
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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 12:42:16 PM   
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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 12:45:48 PM   
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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 12:55:19 PM   
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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 12:57:33 PM   
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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 12:57:50 PM   
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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 12:58:07 PM   
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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 1:05:35 PM   
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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 1:05:44 PM   
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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 1:06:47 PM   
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Status: offline 		I don´t know what your problem is. The text is quite understandable if you studied DOS!

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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 1:08:37 PM   
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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 1:09:14 PM   
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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 1:16:32 PM   
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ORIGINAL: marky

and its easy for a sceintist and asssistant professor to say that!

gigglez



exactly!

And I was a gamer in the 80s, so I had to learn how to optimize your Config.sys and autoexec.bat. The first real help was a application called memmaker, which was quite good im giving the right amount of memory for your games.Much better was Qemm.
Whoever was able to get more than 620KB was really quite good.

< Message edited by Frank -- 3/7/2007 1:35:33 PM >

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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 1:25:14 PM   
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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 1:27:22 PM   
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ORIGINAL: marky

well while u were playin around with dos i wasnt even a twinkle in my dads eye, old man

gigglez



Sometimes it has to have advantages to be old, my boy!

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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 1:35:02 PM   
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i cant wait till i have sum money and steady income


i just gotta decide wat degree to get first


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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 1:40:20 PM   
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If you have a copy of DOS, or even Windows 95/98, you can download Virtual PC from Microsoft. They give it away now. It creates a separate system on your computer that is a virtual PC within Windows XP (or 2000). I've run a number of old DOS games quite well this way.

You still need to format the virtual drive and install the new operating system, but once setup, it's like you have a separate computer running that OS. I found it much easier to deal with than DosBox.

Bill

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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 1:49:06 PM   
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and its safe and it wont hurt anything?


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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 2:18:15 PM   
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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 2:34:07 PM   
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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 2:34:35 PM   
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hmm

and its safe and it wont hurt anything?



It takes up some disk space, but I never had any problems.

Bill

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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 2:43:32 PM   
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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 2:45:58 PM   
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Have you thought of dual booting?

I have win98 and winxp.

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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 2:47:57 PM   
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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 3:44:35 PM   
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WHOEVER WROTE DOS SHOULD BE SHOT!


Marky,

DOS, In my humble opinion was and is much easier to figure out and configure than Windows.

Yes, I am older, but DOS is your friend, it is Windows that is with the Darkside...

Flipper

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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 3:46:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		No, it were those windows versions above 3.X. until then everything was fine.

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RE: Running a DOS game in Windows XP - 3/7/2007 3:46:42 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: marky

WHOEVER WROTE DOS SHOULD BE SHOT!


Marky,

DOS, In my humble opinion was and is much easier to figure out and configure than Windows.

Yes, I am older, but DOS is your friend, it is Windows that is with the Darkside...

Flipper


too true...

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