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johl
15th June 2008, 08:13 PM
hi I'm trying to play some old school dos games but i can't run them at all. i use vista and have downloaded all the commander keens and also goldfields but they wont run. most of the files are documents that gets downloaded if that makes sense. so if someone can please tell me or link me to somewhere that will help that would be cool. cheers

federal
15th June 2008, 08:22 PM
what comes up when you try to boot up the game?

have you tried "run as administrator" ?

riojin
15th June 2008, 08:35 PM
if youre running 64bit windows you cannot run them

Beserker99
16th June 2008, 10:44 AM
I had this little program that emulates the original dos, and all the sound cards and whatnots back a couple years, which I used to play "abandonware".

I'll give ya a link to where to download it, when I finds it all. Hopefully by this arvo I'll be able to dig up my old cd full of old games :)

OK....

Try this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOSBox

and this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDMSound

I used VDM Sound back in the day for emulating the old sound cards, it also seemed to make the games run well.

Hope it helps some.

rthy
18th June 2008, 02:10 AM
dosbox for the win,

and also I recommend upgrading to windows Xp

stinger_007
18th June 2008, 11:09 AM
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (johl @ Jun 15 2008, 07:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> (index.php?act=findpost&pid=546426)</div>
hi I'm trying to play some old school dos games but i can't run them at all. i use vista and have downloaded all the commander keens and also goldfields but they wont run. most of the files are documents that gets downloaded if that makes sense. so if someone can please tell me or link me to somewhere that will help that would be cool. cheers[/b]


<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Sam_Q @ Jun 18 2008, 01:10 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> (index.php?act=findpost&pid=547915)</div>
dosbox for the win,

and also I recommend upgrading to windows Xp[/b]

hahhahaha......

johl
18th June 2008, 12:01 PM
lol yeh upgrade to xp. i would but i actually had to buy a genuine vista when my computer fkt out. dam bill gates!

JoshKE
18th June 2008, 12:36 PM
I use dos box as well...

Also here is a great place to get the dos games...
Clicky Clicky! (http://www.xtcabandonware.com/)

Also if it weren't for Bill Gates there would be no DOS, lol