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Will there ever be a MS-DOS Emulator for Windows ?


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#26 z28in82 OFFLINE  

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Posted Wed Jun 4, 2003 3:02 AM

WOOT!!!

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

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Posted Wed Jun 4, 2003 3:17 AM

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! :music:

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Posted Wed Jun 4, 2003 8:40 AM

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? :sad: Sniffle :sad:

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Posted Wed Jun 4, 2003 8:59 AM

sorry, here's 2 more for ya..

http://www.freeoldies.com/

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

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Posted Wed Jun 4, 2003 9:48 AM

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? :sad: Sniffle :sad:

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.

:D

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Posted Wed Jun 4, 2003 9:51 AM

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!

:?

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Posted Wed Jun 4, 2003 10:34 AM

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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.

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Posted Wed Jun 4, 2003 11:20 PM

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

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Posted Thu Jun 5, 2003 1:53 AM

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. :|

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Posted Thu Jun 5, 2003 6:01 AM

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

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Posted Thu Jun 5, 2003 6:10 AM

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. :ponder:

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

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Posted Thu Jun 5, 2003 6:18 AM

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...

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Posted Thu Jun 5, 2003 6:52 AM

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.

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AMAZING!




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