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re: DOS programs work under Windows XP.
Thursday, March 18, 2004 at 11:09 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Peter Foley
(1 messages posted)
Actually, I had that exact problem... but with a different game, The Red Baron.
The link below will take you to some freeware that perfects your sound for DOS based
games... enjoy!
http://ntvdm.cjb.net/
On Wednesday, January 7, 2004 at 9:32 pm, Joel MacDonald wrote:
>How about the DOS game, Silent Service II. I just installed it on my XP Pro system
>and I can't get the sound to play on my Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2. I
get
>only the PC speaker sounds. I tried to change the batch file from IBM to Adlib but
>the batch file then wouldn't play.
>
>
>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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