Dos Game Help

[Wahotts]

I don't know that much about DOS or windows..or anything. im not /that/ computer literate. But i downloaded the shareware of Quake, and im not sure how to run the program. Any information you need i'll gladly tell, im just not sure what to say. I posted this in the DOS forum, and they told me to post it here, so im not sure what to do.

I actually found the file, a window comes up for a split second, it says it loading, and then it dissapears. x.x What should i do?

[GX1_Man]

Is there a readme.txt file on there to peruse?

[Wahotts]

I looked in the files, and on the webpage..couldnt find one.

[GX1_Man]

I did a Google search for "Shareware Quake help" and found this in two seconds. There are a lot more as well.

http://www.gamers.org/dEngine/quake/info/README.intel_dos.091


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[undead.fox]

I have quake I and many much other DOS games, such as Descent, One Must Fall (don't ask). One thing you should do is try by a dos prompt. CLick on START, then you click on Run, and you type CMD (then hit enter). It should open a dos prompt. direct yourself to the directory you installed quake (c:\quake by default) and run quake (shown in the link of the previous post). If you don't know the commands in DOS, open a DOS Prompt then type "?" . It wil show you the commands needed to direct yourself in the DOS environment. If that doesn't work , download DosBox. It's a program that emules a DOS environment. I usually use it to run quake  .
DOSBox: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net
DOSBox game compatibility list : http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/comp_list.php?letter=Q ( already at letter Q )