re: DOS programs work under Windows XP.
Friday, February 6, 2004 at 6:00 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by johhny
(2 messages posted)
Forget about games, fdisk- a dos program for partitioning and formatting wont work
under XP and disk manager wont friggin format FAT32 partitions bigger than 32 GB
which is crap meaning you want to format a big external hard disk partition youve
gotta go back to win 98.
On Saturday, June 21, 2003 at 2:55 am, Michael Gmirkin wrote:
>Hahaha... Whoever wrote this article doesn't klnow what they're talking about. they
>said that Dos games don't run under windows 2000/XP, and we'll never find any that
>do. Bullshit. Every game I've tried to run so far have run flawlessly under XP.
I
>think it's funny that M$ has said it no longer relies on DOS for its underpinnings,
>doesn't support DOS programs, blah blah blah. Even cynics believe their press. I
>had an entire folder of folders of games that I pulled directly off a DOS/Win95
machine
>that were made to run under DOS. I'm running right now under Windows XP Pro Wolfenstein
>3D episodes 1-6 full with no error whatsoever. Quite flawless, actually. Amazingly
>pretty much all the games recognize the sound card, the mouse, etc. Better even
>than they did originally under DOS proper! So, it's pretty much bull that DOS programs
>don't work. Occasionally, I have to flip a setting or two, but no worse than under
>DOS itself, usually with far better support.
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