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re: DOS programs work under Windows XP.
Saturday, June 21, 2003 at 2:45 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(19336 messages posted)
No, I wasn't going to look for your needle in the haystack. I read the postings in
the forum and in the past 8 or 9 months no such claims have been made. So you're
addressing your rants and raves to the wrong people. I don't really give a flip where
you read it, but you didn't read it in the XP forum. So figure out how this works
and stop sounding like a lunatic.
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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