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re: Older DOS programs
Monday, October 21, 2002 at 8:50 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Andrew McRae
(1 messages posted)
Theres a nifty little program called "Dosbox" You can find it at http://dosbox.zophar.net/
It stil has some issues and isnt 100% but I got several old dos programs to run WITH
sound on my Win2000 machine.
on Friday, January 11, 2002 at 8:03 pm, Andrew wrote:
>I have a question about My
>extra-cool DOS game won't run under Windows:
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>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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- Older DOS programs (Andrew: Friday, January 11, 2002 at 8:03 pm)
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