Help needed

[Sheeds]

Ok hopefully there is a simple bit of advice here.

I have some really old games I wanted to fire up again, unfortunately they are DOS based and Windows XP is a pain in the arse with this as you are probably aware.

My computer will not reboot or anything in DOS, and command prompt and whanot is useless.

Does anyone have any suggestions, I have seen these DOS emulators, the couple I have downloaded and attempted to get going have done nothing. A lot of intstructions for dealing with DOS games in windows on the net seem fairly complicated so hopefully someone here has a shortcut or something.

Any Help much appreciated.

 

[jim boy]

probably your best bet is floppy disks, if you have a floppy disk drive. Download a dos boot image and create a dos boot disk. Try this for example.

If your games are on a NTFS formatted partition, you'll need to either shift them to a non-ntfs format partition or put them on floppy if they are old and small enough.

 

[feher]

Try JimBoy's soultion, but I don't think their is any real easy soultion.

For certain (lucasart mainly) DOS games use scummvm, If you haven't tried dosbox emulation try it. I tried it once and it wasn't too hard, just need to read the instruction's very carefully.

 

[Basic]

Read this; http://www.the-underdogs.org/guidewin.php and part 2 of it.

 

[Fraser]

What Dos emulators were you using?

I've been using DosBox for my DOS games. As mentioned, read the help files, follow instructions, etc, for best performance. For example, you can speed up it's processor by pressing ctrl F11 i think. Only game that run like crap was Doom 2. The DosBox is a 486 processor.

 

[Sheeds]

Thanks for the help.

Hopefully the advice will do the trick.