DOS games

[TommyBoomfiger]

i found an awesome collection of old games, but im having lots of trouble remembering how to run them. the biggest problems i have are with mouse and soundcard issues. im using a soundblaster 5.1 live platinum with the legacy sb drivers installed, but i dont get any sound in any game. also, since windows now includes mouse drivers, but i use a razer boomslang so i dont know if regular mouse drivers will work. anyone know how to get these things to work?

[Frostbyte]

Old DOS games never run quite like they are supposed to on Windows with new hardware. It might be possible to run them on VMWare. It is a virtual machine, you can install DOS on it and it will run and emulate standard hardware for the guest OS. You might give it a shot. Depending on the game, it might work pretty well.

[TommyBoomfiger]

yeah, i tried most of them in windows and i expected that they wouldnt run. but im having these problems in dos mode. i got the games at the underdogs (http://www.theunderdogs.org) if anyone else is interested. i have no problems *playing* most games, but cannon fodder 1 and 2 keep crashing my machine. i remember when i used to play those games back in the day with almost no problems, except ems and all that stuff. i wish i still had those old boot disks :D. games like micro machine 2 and humans give me no sound at all. ive tried all sorts of combination of settings (mem managers and sound card) and i cant get it still. the only game i played that had sound was indy 500, and that had internal sound only, no sb.

[ZrEo0]

what games?

[TommyBoomfiger]

cannon fodder -crashes instantly and resets
cannon fodder 2 -crashes instantly and resets
hole-in-one golf -works w/o mouse support
humans -no sound
incredible machine -no mouse, no sound
indy 500 -works w/ onboard sound only
lemmings -dont know
spy vs spy -works in windows
spy hunter -works in windows
lemmings -dont know
scorched earth -no mouse support, too fast

there are more but i dont remember right now.

[TommyBoomfiger]

Originally posted by DarkFury
Heh.. no matter how nostalgic it would be to go back to playing DukeNukem 3D.. I just can't!

The "DOS" chapter of my PC has closed for good...

hmm, the last time i remember playing DN3D, which was less than a year ago, i had no problems at all. same with descent (played a few weeks ago) and doom. many of those came out after windows95 and worked well in dos mode and they didnt really need a mouse.

[ZrEo0]

i have wolfenstien 3d on my computer, somewhere. now that game is fun:D

[Speedfreak]

Break out the old 486. :D

[TommyBoomfiger]

Originally posted by Speedfreak
Break out the old 486. :D
i wish i had one

[billxp]

Check out http://www.ina-support.com/dos_troubleshooting/index.asp for dos gaming in windows info.

[TommyBoomfiger]

thanks bill, that site helped me with the mouse issue. the boot up disk util had a mouse driver which worked with my razer, but the boot disk itself wouldnt boot:(.

i guess dos doesnt recognize my soundcard, even with the drivers installed. it might be because its in the wrong slot or whatever and i dont feel like messing with the internals of my computer right now when its working perfectly fine for doing work with. i finally got humans 2 to work, but the game sucks and ms flight sim 3.0 works perfectly, but its pretty boring too.

[Splitfyre]

They said Death to DOS, but I love DOS. With everything I do I seem to always end up helping people with trying to remember DOS commands of years gone past! :P

Cheers!


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[ZrEo0]

do these work on winXP?
if so could you send me some of those, i love some of those games

[TommyBoomfiger]

Originally posted by ZrEo0
do these work on winXP?
if so could you send me some of those, i love some of those games

just go to The UnderDogs (http://www.theunderdogs.org), they have an awesome collection and links to other sites with even more games.

i dont know if they will work in xp, they probably wont unless xp has a better dos mode. anything that will work in windows (3.1, 95, 98) will work in xp, for example lemmings for windows works, but everything shows up small unless you run it under 640*480 res. i also got super tetris to work in windows with no problems. you wont be able to use a optical or usb mouse in dos and you will need a driver to use a ps2 or serial mouse. other than that you shouldnt have any problems.

[oblongmelon]

Originally posted by DarkFury
Heh.. no matter how nostalgic it would be to go back to playing DukeNukem 3D.. I just can't!

The "DOS" chapter of my PC has closed for good...

I knew a guy who looked EXACtly LIKE DukeNukem..his name is GARETH HOGGINS..and with that kind of a last name you learn to beat the crap outta people

[brainsmile]

ahhh... remember when those games were "cutting edge technology"?

[TommyBoomfiger]

Originally posted by brainsmile
ahhh... remember when those games were "cutting edge technology"?

hehe, yeah. wow, look at those cool graphics

[twest17]

but in a few years the games your playing today will be the same as those other old ones are now

[TommyBoomfiger]

Originally posted by twest17
but in a few years the games your playing today will be the same as those other old ones are now

true, but not all of them. for me a few games like mgs(2) and gt(1/2/3) will be, but not all of them. most games will not stand the test of time.