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avaraham2006

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old dos games
« 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?
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    Re: old dos games
    « Reply #1 on: March 20, 2009, 06:19:30 AM »
    You could try DOSBOX
    or several other DOS emulators:
    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Dos+Emulators

     ;)
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      Re: old dos games
      « Reply #2 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!!
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      Re: old dos games
      « Reply #3 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...
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      Re: old dos games
      « Reply #4 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 ....
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        Re: old dos games
        « Reply #5 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?
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        Re: old dos games
        « Reply #6 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.
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          « Reply #7 on: April 03, 2009, 06:13:39 AM »
          So you can't install DOSBOX or Loderunner?
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          Re: old dos games
          « Reply #8 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.
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            Re: old dos games
            « Reply #9 on: April 03, 2009, 06:30:51 PM »
            Does it install fine on your other systems(that don't have vista)
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            Re: old dos games
            « Reply #10 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.
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              « Reply #11 on: April 04, 2009, 08:29:14 PM »
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              Re: old dos games
              « Reply #12 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

              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
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                Re: old dos games
                « Reply #13 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.
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