re: Old DOS Game
Friday, January 4, 2002 at 7:15 pm
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Posted by Everett
(2940 messages posted)
Lenny: this will likely be the final instalment on this sequence....Stage 6. Configuration.
Return to the APSD box, only his time click on the Configuration button. A warning
message will pop up to advise you that the changes you will be making will override
those in the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files in Stage 5. Click "Yes". A dialog
box appears called "Select MS-DOS Configuration Options". This turns out to be the
the same box you may have encountered in my second reply of Dec 31,2001 above. If
you used this box previously then all the work done in Stage 5 will have been affected;
so a choice needs to be made whether to rely on this Configuration, or clear all
boxes here and run Stage 5 over again to see which works best for the game. If you
choose to stay with this configuration, then a few more words about the options may
be helpful. By enabling these options you will be making entries in the files of
Stage 5. EMS and UMB you are already familiar with. Option 2 refers to the enabling
of SMARTDRV which is a disk-caching utility that will speed the disk operations of
your DOS game. It loads in UMB by default. Option 3 for Doskey uses 4KB of memory,
so do not enable unless you plan to use it for command line editing.
Option 4 for direct disk access is worth a try.
I hope that this exercise has been helpful to you and that it will enable you to
have the childrens' games work well from the desktop icons. Let me know how successful
this was (or not). Everett.
On Saturday, December 22, 2001 at 4:43 am, Lenny wrote:
>I have installed a lot of old DOS games on computers at a school for exceptional
>children (disabled and retarded) in Freeport, Bahamas. Most of them work OK, but
>there are a few problems. They have some computers with Windows 95 and others with
>Windows ME. I have Windows 98 at home.
>
>I installed Reader Rabbit I which works OK on all machines. When I try to run Reader
>Rabbit II, I get a blue screen with the message "LOADING READER RABBIT II" and it
>freezes there.
>
>"Word Rescue" works on Windows 98 and 95. On Windows ME it works but without the
>back ground music. The option for "ALL Sounds" is checked in the program. I had
>a similar problem with "Treasure Mt".
>Is there a way to set these programs up to run properly. I would want a way that
>would allow the chilren to run them from a desk top icon without having to restart
>in DOS mode or press F8.
>Lennyh
>
>
>On Friday, December 21, 2001 at 10:23 pm, Everett wrote:
>
>Michael: first thing to try is to Restart in MS-DOS Mode and run the game from
>there.
> This works for some games that do not want to share resources with other programs
>such as Windows. The game you listed is probably in the next category which have
>their own graphic environment. These games require you to startup to the DOS prompt.
> You can boot to the boot menu by pressing F8 when Windows starts to load and then
>select Command Prompt Only, or you
>can boot directly to the DOS prompt by adding the command line: BootGUI=0 to the
>[Options] section of the MSDOS.SYS file (see Troubleshooting on the left of your
>screen for more about MSDOS.SYS). If this route is chosen, you should also set
>BootMenu=0.
> You can further automate the running of the game by entering a command in Autoexec.bat
>to start it. If you also want a choice to choose between the game and Windows,
>you
>can set up Config.sys to display a menu. Set up CONFIG.SYS as follows:
>[menu]
>menuitem=Windows
>menuitem=gamename
>menudefault=gamename,10
>
>[common]
>variables common to both programs
>
>[Windows]
>variables needed by Windows
>
>[program name]
>variables needed by gamename
>gamename pathname
>
>[common]
>more variables common to both programs
>
>For the AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
>
>Commands common to both programs
>goto %config%
>
>:Windows
>Commands needed by Windows
>goto end
>
>:gamename
>Commands needed by gamename
>C:\windows\win.com
>
>:end
>Commands common to both programs
>
>Note: for gamename substitute the DOS name for the game.
>Let us know how it works out.
>
>
>On Friday, December 21, 2001 at 4:29 pm, Michael R. Walls wrote:
>Hey, Folks,
>
> I have a REALLY old game that my daughters love, called "Are You Afraid of the
>Dark, The Tale of Orpheos Curse". It ran great back in 95, but won't do anything
>in 98. Is there anyone out there who has been able to get this game to work in
>W98?
> I'd be grateful to learn how to do it. Thanks
>
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