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Title: old dos games
Post by: avaraham2006 on March 20, 2009, 05:21:50 AM

 ???i have a lot of old dos games and can mot play them on my computer.
i have a dual core 3gig,1gig of memory,running on xp sp3. there seem to be no dos anymore.is there anything i can do to change it,so that i can run older dos games?

Title: Re: old dos games
Post by: macdad- on March 20, 2009, 06:19:30 AM

You could try DOSBOX
or several other DOS emulators:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Dos+Emulators (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Dos+Emulators)

 ;)

Title: Re: old dos games
Post by: Dustinator on March 24, 2009, 04:45:04 PM

Dos box is the way to go. Or if you have a Old copy of windows like 95 or 98 you could run a virtual os with Virtual Box, windows will work inside windows and old windows means dos games.

Virtual box www.virtualbox.org/
Hope this helps!!

Title: Re: old dos games
Post by: BC_Programmer on March 24, 2009, 05:01:55 PM

most of the more popular dos games have windows ports. Doom, Duke nukem 3d, Quake, etc. Rise of the triad...

Title: Re: old dos games
Post by: x2543 on April 02, 2009, 12:29:32 PM

how do you get loderunner working> It's the game created by Sierra and I used to play it on a windows 95 system.....

Supposedly dosbox can run it but when I try installing on my vista machine, error popus up and no installation goes on ....

Title: Re: old dos games
Post by: macdad- on April 02, 2009, 04:18:28 PM

What version of dosbox do you have, and is your OS the 32 or 64 bit version of Vista?

Title: Re: old dos games
Post by: x2543 on April 02, 2009, 08:49:20 PM

Quote from: macdad- on April 02, 2009, 04:18:28 PM

What version of dosbox do you have, and is your OS the 32 or 64 bit version of Vista?

Vista OS is 32 bit version, and

http://www.classic-pc-games.com/pc/puzzle_games/lode_runner:_the_legend_returns.html is where I got the loderunner game which I wanted and also sorry I don't know what version of DOSBox I downloaded, http://www.classic-pc-games.com/cgi-bin/download/DOSBox-Installer.exe is where the dosbox installer I got came from.

Title: Re: old dos games
Post by: macdad- on April 03, 2009, 06:13:39 AM

So you can't install DOSBOX or Loderunner?

Title: Re: old dos games
Post by: x2543 on April 03, 2009, 04:23:05 PM

Quote from: macdad- on April 03, 2009, 06:13:39 AM

So you can't install DOSBOX or Loderunner?

DosBox installs fine, I've tested oregon trail game which I obtained from same site (the first game that came to mind that needs dosbox other than loderunner) and it plays fine. Loderunner doesn't. Odd.

Title: Re: old dos games
Post by: macdad- on April 03, 2009, 06:30:51 PM

Does it install fine on your other systems(that don't have vista)

Title: Re: old dos games
Post by: x2543 on April 03, 2009, 08:28:03 PM

i don't have other systems.  I only have one computer and that is vista on it and this is my main machine anyway.

Title: Re: old dos games
Post by: macdad- on April 04, 2009, 08:29:14 PM

Try this:
http://www.glennsguides.com/2008/07/lode-runner-pc-game-free-download.html (http://www.glennsguides.com/2008/07/lode-runner-pc-game-free-download.html)

Title: Re: old dos games
Post by: x2543 on April 04, 2009, 10:25:49 PM

Quote from: macdad- on April 04, 2009, 08:29:14 PM

Try this:
http://www.glennsguides.com/2008/07/lode-runner-pc-game-free-download.html (http://www.glennsguides.com/2008/07/lode-runner-pc-game-free-download.html)

thanks anyway, it's not the right version but it doesn't really matter, but i'll try it again and see if I get it to work like it should . if not, this post will be updated

Title: Re: old dos games
Post by: Reno on April 05, 2009, 02:46:38 AM

12/01/2009  23:17         4.436.402 Lode Runner The Legend Returns (1994)(Sierra Online)(Rev1).zip
16/05/2008  09:58            49.788 Lode Runner The Legend Returns (1994)(Sierra Online).zip
16/05/2008  09:47           360.320 Oregon Trail (1990)(Mecc).zip
17/03/2008  21:30         1.910.315 oregon_deluxe.zip

1. Lode runner 4mb works on xp
Lode Runner for Windows                         
Lode Runner is a registered trademark.
(C) 1983, Douglas E. Smith
(C) 1994, Presage Software Development Company

2. lode runner 49kb also works on xp


dont have vista to try.