I have a comment/question about My extra-cool DOS game won't run under Windows:

A response indicated that it is rare to find a DOS game that will run under windows XP. Well, I have one that does. It is a Star Reach game, which I still enjoy very much. It will run, and I can play the game. The problem is that sometimes, (usually when having a lot of action going on,) the game will freeze or close out completely. Very aggrivating when I'm on a charge to victory. The answer also said to boot from the a boot disc. If I create an XP boot disc, are you saying that I might be advised to shut down and reboot using this disc, and then type/call up the game's exe file? Will a boot disc load a safe mode, limited windows version or DOS prompt? How can I create the required boot disc? I need to use the keyboard and mouse to play the game. No cd rom needed. The game is on the harddrive, with an icon created on the desktop. Icon properties memory tab has all memory options set to auto. Star Reach does not need any conventional memory, and can run without any memory manager at all. How is the manager disabled? Can I make this game play well via a properly set boot disc?

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You need an MSDOS boot disk. XP does not run on DOS, therefore it's boot disk is 
not an MSDOS boot disk. You need either a Win9x boot disk or a real DOS boot disk 
(like DOS 6.22)

You say your program does not require conventional memory, well that's simply wrong. 
That is all that is available to MSDOS without a memory manager. That's what programs 
ran in when we used DOS.







On Saturday, April 1, 2006 at 12:42 pm, Shawn wrote:

>I have a comment/question about My 

>extra-cool DOS game won't run under Windows:


>A response indicated that it is rare to find a DOS game that will run under windows 

>XP. Well, I have one that does. It is a Star Reach game, which I still enjoy very 

>much. It will run, and I can play the game. The problem is that sometimes, (usually 

>when having a lot of action going on,) the game will freeze or close out completely. 

>Very aggrivating when I'm on a charge to victory. The answer also said to boot from 

>the a boot disc. If I create an XP boot disc, are you saying that I might be advised 

>to shut down and reboot using this disc, and then type/call up the game's exe file? 

>Will a boot disc load a safe mode, limited windows version or DOS prompt? How can 

>I create the required boot disc? I need to use the keyboard and mouse to play the 

>game. No cd rom needed. The game is on the harddrive, with an icon created on the 

>desktop. Icon properties memory tab has all memory options set to auto. Star Reach 

>does not need any conventional memory, and can run without any memory manager at 

>all. How is the manager disabled? Can I make this game play well via a properly 
set 

>boot disc?
 

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In addition, if your game is loaded on an NTFS formatted hard drive, starting the computer with a DOS boot disk, will not see your hard drive, therefore the game will not even be available to play unless you are loading it from a floppy or CD ROM (if you boot with CD ROM support). DOS games are problematic in XP due to the fact that XP has only emulation, not real DOS as does Win 9X. There are many other factors that make it hard to impossible to run DOS games on XP as well...


On Saturday, April 1, 2006 at 12:42 pm, Shawn wrote:
>I have a comment/question about My
>extra-cool DOS game won't run under Windows:

>A response indicated that it is rare to find a DOS game that will run under windows
>XP. Well, I have one that does. It is a Star Reach game, which I still enjoy very
>much. It will run, and I can play the game. The problem is that sometimes, (usually
>when having a lot of action going on,) the game will freeze or close out completely.
>Very aggrivating when I'm on a charge to victory. The answer also said to boot from
>the a boot disc. If I create an XP boot disc, are you saying that I might be advised
>to shut down and reboot using this disc, and then type/call up the game's exe file?
>Will a boot disc load a safe mode, limited windows version or DOS prompt? How can
>I create the required boot disc? I need to use the keyboard and mouse to play the
>game. No cd rom needed. The game is on the harddrive, with an icon created on the
>desktop. Icon properties memory tab has all memory options set to auto. Star Reach
>does not need any conventional memory, and can run without any memory manager at
>all. How is the manager disabled? Can I make this game play well via a properly set
>boot disc?

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