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re: DOS programs work under Windows XP.
Saturday, June 21, 2003 at 2:11 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Adam Bradley
(7201 messages posted)
in the future use the "discuss this article with other Windows users" feature at
the bottom of the article
that way a link will be inserted pointing to the article and we might have a clue
what your talking about
we can't read your mind so the words you type are our only source of info on the
post
if it really bugs you Contact
Annoyances.org about it we don't control this site they do
regards, Adam Bradley
On Saturday, June 21, 2003 at 12:18 pm, Michael Gmirkin wrote:
>Well, then you didn't look very hard, did you? let me quote the following: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article07-014
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>"Many DOS games simply won't run under Windows 9x/Me, and I'll bet you'll never
find
>one that will run under Windows 2000 or XP. Here are some tips: "
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>First of all, of course DOS games work unnder 95/98. If not directly from windows,
>then simply booting to the DOS prompt usually remedies this problem. Hell even IN
>WINDOWS you can specify in the program properties to "run in DOS mode."
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>And this article I was referring to states quite explicitly, and quite incorrectly,
>"I'll bet you'll never find one that will run under Windows 2000 or XP." This is
>the bull I'm referring to. The author had quite obviously never tried it himself,
>or he'd know that (at least of the sampling I tried) 70-80% of DOS games work just
>fine under XP. I was running Wolfenstein 3D, Duke Nukem 3D, raptor, One Must Fall,
>Othello, Atom, Ataxx (though for some reason it wouldn't accept keyboard input for
>moves even though it did accept keyboard input to select the difficulty level, and
>I'm sure with time I can troubleshoot that out). About the only program I like that
>I haven't YET gotten to run is Tyrian. I'm pretty sure it's just a matter of finding
>the right settings, just like Duke 3D, which wouldn't run until set to 320X200 in
>its setup program, now runs beautifully. Kinda' funny how fast it runs with a G3
>Ti200 128MB card in the machine. ;o]
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>Anyway, I was simply pointing out that someone hadn't done their homework when posting,
>kinda' like you... Hmm, next time, read the article I'm referring to before misinformedly
>flaming. Thank you. And it was a fairly major article directly under "troubleshooting"
>link on the left "Why doesn't my extra cool DOS game work in windows?"
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