Older DOS programs
Friday, January 11, 2002 at 8:03 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Andrew
(1 messages posted)
I have a question about My
extra-cool DOS game won't run under Windows:
I run Windows 2000 Professional, but have several older DOS programs such as a Pascal
compiler and a few games such as Heretic, Hexen, Duke3D, Doom, etc.
These games refuse to run under Windows 2000 at all, instead (in the case of games)
locking up while going through the initialization routines (eg. Doom's scrolling
periods during init). In the case of my compiler, any attempts to run the compiled
programs trigger Runtime Error 200 - Division by Zero, even if they were compiled
before I changed operating systems.
Video is fine, as the compiler has no problems with it, and the games all use low-res
modes or VESA drivers handled by the card itself. They all ran under Windows 98
(exact same computer and parts).
Is there any sort of work-around or fix I can use, seems to how I've never seen an
option for a startup disk in Windows 2000, and I doubt Creative makes SoundBlaster
Live drivers for DOS. I'm planning on purchasing a new hard drive in the next few
weeks, and I'll probably partition off a space for Windows 98 and the older programs,
but there's got to be a better way than that.
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