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[z28in82]

WOOT!!!

looks like I'll be downing DOS-box today once I get home from work. Now to keep ME or upgrade??? HMMMMM

[Sharky]

z28in82 said:

WOOT!!!  

looks like I'll be downing DOS-box today once I get home from work. Now to keep ME or upgrade??? HMMMMM

Yes running old DOS Games and risking a possible system lock-up it now a thing of the past!

You and now run em either in a window/Full Screen and at the correct speed, Faster or slower, Screenshot capture, record to WAV File, etc. etc.

And ill got Windows ME and I cant believe im now playing these old DOS Games again!

[z28in82]

I'm running ME as well but when I tried to run The Incredible Machine it was running too slow and very choppy. Wondering what I am doing wrong? Sniffle

[privateers69]

sorry, here's 2 more for ya..

http://www.freeoldies.com/

http://www.the-underdogs.org/index.php

[Sharky]

z28in82 said:

I'm running ME as well but when I tried to run The Incredible Machine it was running too slow and very choppy. Wondering what I am doing wrong? Sniffle

Its a little of the slow side for me too and ive a 266mhz PC.

You can try to decrease Frame-Rate (CTRL F7).

Or, I dont know, anyone known the best way to get this running at full-speed.

Anyway best of all (Not just Games), I can now get my old DOS Demos/Programs to work again.

Also anyone know the best link for DOS Demos.??
Im sure most of those ones would work.

privateers.. Thanks more DOS Games links!! Ill get too them.

[Sharky]

Priveers I cant work out what happened to your www.colocalhost.com link of w/e!

That was my favourite DOS Games Site and it worked yesterday, now its dead!

[privateers69]

Sharky said:

Priveers I cant work out what happened to your www.colocalhost.com link of w/e!

That was my favourite DOS Games Site and it worked yesterday, now its dead!

It may be a temporary sititution as it has happened before so keep checking once a week-or-month.

[Happy_Dude]

Dos box won't work for me.
Are there any other emu's out there ?

[Sharky]

Happy_Dude said:

Dos box won't work for me.
Are there any other emu's out there ?

It Should, are u sure you know how to use it correctly.

lets say u want to play Last Ninja ?
and its in your c:gameslastninja directory

DOS-BOX begins on Z: Prompt

so type..

MOUNT C C:GAMESLASTNINJA

then type..

C:

then DIR

and run the game.. probably be LASTNINJA.COM


1 Game I cant get working but its says it works in the list is.

ULTIMA UNDERWORLD

Doesnt seem to work under DOS-BOX althought the list says it does.

[Happy_Dude]

Nope it doesn't even start

MIDI:Opened device:win32

Exit to error: an unsupported feature

Press enter to continue.



C:Program FilesDOSBox>

I don't even press enter and it goes straight to the prompt.
Or if I open it from windows it just flashes a blank window for about 1 second

[Sharky]

Happy_Dude said:

Nope it doesn't even start

MIDI:Opened device:win32

Exit to error: an unsupported feature

Press enter to continue.



C:Program FilesDOSBox>

I don't even press enter and it goes straight to the prompt.
Or if I open it from windows it just flashes a blank window for about 1 second

Thats strange... Its seems to refuse to run at all.

Did you know the right DOS-BOX .58 ??
Maybe you downloaded a corrupt copy.

[Happy_Dude]

it was the .58 installer file.
I'll probably just put together a "real" dos box just for games. (and mame )
I have so many 200Mb hdd's and 486 motherboards laying around it's not funny.
But I only have 1 working monitior...

[Sharky]

Happy_Dude said:

it was the .58 installer file.
I'll probably just put together a "real" dos box just for games. (and mame )
I have so many 200Mb hdd's and 486 motherboards laying around it's not funny.
But I only have 1 working monitior...

You could play them on a real 486 if u wanted too, although your 486 would
be too fast for the 286 games.

Plus you would have an annoying PC Speaker for your sounds. But in DOS-BOX your PC Speakers sounds come on off your soundcard speakers instead.

Amazing I need a faster PC too have full enjoyment of DOS-BOX. A Pentium 2 400+mhz would be the miminum to play Games that were programmed for the 286 machine.



AMAZING!