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Seth

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Playing DOS games under RH 9.0
« on: 9 September 2003, 10:54 »
Came across this site with google. Will this be enough to run games (MSDOS 6.0 or greater) that were released pre Win95 ?

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« Reply #1 on: 9 September 2003, 11:05 »
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Originally posted by Seth:
Came across this site with google. Will this be enough to run games (MSDOS 6.0 or greater) that were released pre Win95 ?

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It should be.  It's kindof tricky to set up.

I never got the sound working...

You can use MS DOS, PC DOS, DR-DOS, or FreeDOS with it.  FreeDOS may have compatibility issues with some programs.

DOSEMU disables the ALT key.  If you run it in console mode, there is a way around that, but it's non ideal because a DOS crash can leave you unable to communicate with your computer.
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Seth

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« Reply #2 on: 9 September 2003, 19:59 »
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It should be. It's kindof tricky to set up.

I never got the sound working...

You can use MS DOS, PC DOS, DR-DOS, or FreeDOS with it. FreeDOS may have compatibility issues with some programs.

DOSEMU disables the ALT key. If you run it in console mode, there is a way around that, but it's non ideal because a DOS crash can leave you unable to communicate with your computer.  


Yikes...I guess if the game is buggy to begin with then I shouldn't even bother then, huh ?
The game I wanted to try is called Daggerfall (or Buggerfall as it was called when it was released) ; it is from Bethesda (http://www.bethsoft.com).  I do have an old COMPAQ Presario 4508 w/With 95 that runs the game perfectly, but alas it is in its last legs. While doing a scandisk last time, it found quite a lot of bad clusters in the HDD !!
As the game is practically unplayable in MS's                       newer OSs or faster CPUs (I don't want to use any utilities to slowdown my processor), I suppose I could look for another older computer.....   :(  

I would rather try it in Linux if possible. Any sugestions ?

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Seth

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« Reply #3 on: 9 September 2003, 20:00 »
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« Reply #4 on: 10 September 2003, 05:10 »
If your computer is fast enough, you could try Bochs:

http://bochs.sourceforge.net

There's also Dosbox

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net

Seth

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« Reply #5 on: 10 September 2003, 07:51 »
Nah, bochs is probably beyond my XP2500 and DOSBOX can not help because the game needs a fairly quick 486 (and 'protected-mode') but can not handle faster  CPUs, ergo, running it without the emulation is no good either.  :(  

Hmm..I am going back to bargain bins for an old computer.  :D

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« Reply #6 on: 14 September 2003, 05:05 »
Hey, wait... I remember I found something a little while ago called dosbox. I got a few old dos games working with it and I think what didn't work was not its fault anyway. A really big plus in my opinion is it doesn't need any form of dos already installed or anything like that. (That's what bugged me about dosemu.) ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox )