DOS Games

[cjwalkley]

Question from a computer idiot....

Can you play DOS games on any computer? How?

 

[Mobbs]

Originally posted by cjwalkley
Question from a computer idiot....

Can you play DOS games on any computer? How?

'any computer'? Should be able to, probaly not Macs, though.

You put the files in, then explore to that folder, then double-click the .com, the .bat or the .exe file.

It should just run.

 

[Desredandwhite]

Well, some older games might chuck a hissy fit at you, because your computer might be too FAST! But give it a go anyway.

Hactually Mobbs, I reckon I can run some of my old DOS-based games on my Apple Powerbook - just run a wintel emulator like Virtual PC or something - probably not a bad environment to do it in actually, you can throttle the speed back etc

 

[Mobbs]

Originally posted by Desredandwhite
Hactually Mobbs, I reckon I can run some of my old DOS-based games on my Apple Powerbook - just run a wintel emulator like Virtual PC or something - probably not a bad environment to do it in actually, you can throttle the speed back etc

Yeah I only suggested it because there's obviously an issue, and I didn't know the answer, and I hadn't used Macs, so was just sortof guessing. I'm an ideas man!

 

[nonchalance]

Even the ones with memory too fast can use an application called MoSlo, which slows your computer down.

good place to go: www.cdos.org