What OS will let me run all my DOS Atari emu's?

#1 Cassidy Nolen OFFLINE

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Posted Sat Dec 20, 2003 11:34 AM

Hi guys,

Sorry if this has been covered ad-nauseam. I am going to need a new system this next month, and I am still running win98. I will of course be getting whatever is currently installed, but I do use all the DASM, Stella, etc software.

Bottom line, does XP let me do all that? I remember hearing something about DOS not being included on the new operating systems. What are you guys running?

Thanks, sorry if its the wrong forum..

Cassidy

#2 vb_master OFFLINE

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Posted Sat Dec 20, 2003 12:10 PM

windows xp runs on a dos emulator, my friend uses win xp professional and he run a dos game - doom fine.

#3 Albert OFFLINE

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Posted Sat Dec 20, 2003 2:01 PM

Windows XP (and Windows 2000, for that matter) is not a good operating system to run DOS emulators. Some will work fine, but in my experience it's hit and miss. Your best bet is to setup a dual-boot system so you can fire up either Windows 98 or DOS and then run DOS emulators in that.

..Al

#4 Bryan OFFLINE

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Posted Sat Dec 20, 2003 2:09 PM

I have a ZIP drive and a disk that's formatted to be a little DOS hard-drive. This takes care of all my problems since DOS can't see my NTFS partitions anyway. Swappable HD's would do the trick too.

A lot of DOS stuff does work under XP, though. It's just that XP isn't based on a DOS sub-structure, so the DOS-box is now completely emulated.

-Bry

#5 Thomas Jentzsch OFFLINE

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Posted Sat Dec 20, 2003 3:03 PM

Cassidy Nolen said:

Sorry if this has been covered ad-nauseam. I am going to need a new system this next month, and I am still running win98. I will of course be getting whatever is currently installed, but I do use all the DASM, Stella, etc software.

I switched from Win95 to XP recently. DASM, DiStella etc. work fine. z26 (DOS) doesn't, but the windows version works perfect, just like AtariWin800.

Which other DOS based emulators are you using?

#6 Cassidy Nolen OFFLINE

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Posted Sun Dec 21, 2003 2:42 PM

I'm more worried about my Pocket Programmer. I would still like to have a use-able system as it is out of the box (no dual disk drives, no partitions, etc,). It seems that XP 'should' do most of my work for me, so I can give it a go.

Thanks all. Hopefully I can now stop my dreaded blue screens (believe it or not, its a hardware failure....imagine that? I blamed the OS for three full reformats!)

Cassidy