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Other Gaming => Video & Computer Games => Topic started by: NWJosh on November 18, 2009, 06:12:40 PM
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Okay I have a game from way way back and want to play it but it requires going through DOS to do that. Does anyone know where I can download a free DOS simulator or something like that so I can play the game of my childhood.
Oh and the game is Star Control 2. I love that game.
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Try DOSBox. http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dosbox/DOSBox0.73-win32-installer.exe?download (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dosbox/DOSBox0.73-win32-installer.exe?download)
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Does any one know how to use Dos Box? Ive never been able to get it to run on my computer as it always comes up with stupid errors and stuff.
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Could you be more specific than "stupid errors and stuff?" I use DOSBox successfully to play games like the one in my avatar, and might be able to help.
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This is going to sound really noobish but what is a dos box????
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It's a program you can run in Windows (and maybe other OSes, I haven't checked) to make a program run as if it's in DOS. DOS is an old operating system that many old programs would run off of before Windows 95 or so. If I remember correctly, Windows 95 and 98 still had good DOS support but XP and Vista, less so. So to run games like One Must Fall: 2097 (from 1994, it ran on DOS), you need to run it in a fake DOS.
I hope that didn't just confuse you more.
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So to run games like One Must Fall: 2097 (from 1994, it ran on DOS), you need to run it in a fake DOS.
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Why would a game from 2097 run on DOS? Wouldn't people have updated to Windows 98 (at least) by that time?
(Oh, +1 with Tim on DOSBox.)
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If you haven't played Bio Menace 1-3 they rock
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Why would a game from 2097 run on DOS? Wouldn't people have updated to Windows 98 (at least) by that time?
In a post-apocalyptic world, all Windows OSs have been obliterated. Yes, even 3.1!
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Why would a game from 2097 run on DOS? Wouldn't people have updated to Windows 98 (at least) by that time?
In a post-apocalyptic world, all Windows OSs have been obliterated. Yes, even 3.1!
On the bright side, the lack of Mine Sweeper has increased office productivity in the post-apocalyptic world by over 70%.
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Why would a game from 2097 run on DOS? Wouldn't people have updated to Windows 98 (at least) by that time?
In a post-apocalyptic world, all Windows OSs have been obliterated. Yes, even 3.1!
On the bright side, the lack of Mine Sweeper has increased office productivity in the post-apocalyptic world by over 70%.
:rollin: :rollin: