DOS Games Discussion

Guest · Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 6:44 pm Post subject: X-Com on Mac OS X within DOSbox

I have DOSBox up and running just fine, and can play a handful of games. X-Com however is continually giving me a "This program can not be run in DOS mode." error. I have tried a handful of different downloads of the game, but every single one gives the same error.

I assume that all of the downloads I have tried are the windows gold version of the game, hence the error?

Does anyone know any way to remedy this? Or some place to get a version that will work within DOSbox? I have the original floppies for the game around here somewhere, but don't have access to a floppy drive to get the game that way.

dosraider · Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 12:02 am Post subject:

Your possibilities:

Find someone with a brain and a real computer (also known as PC user) and ask him to make images of your floppies, send them to you and mount the images as A in dosbox.

Or go on Abandonia and download the dosversion, they have both the Win and Dosversion there, it's listed there as UFO-Enemy unknown.
The dosversion is downloadable from the bottom of the game sheet.

[Edit]
Also:
Install W3.11 in dosbox and run the windows version. (But it's easier to download the dosversion).

Mr. Worm · Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 8:06 am Post subject:

If you have an Intel Mac and don't want to spend money, you could always download and install Ubuntu Linux (set up a partition or emulate it in the Q emulator).

If not, do what dosraider says. Because Windows 2000 sort of lurches on my PowerPC Mac.

Wally · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 6:26 pm Post subject:

dosraider, you do know that a Mac is a computer too (ahla PC) Tbbbbbth!

Shouldn't matter what platform, now wormy is saying to install Ubuntu on the Mac :/ but why?

Get the right version, then you should be cooking with gas.

Mr. Worm · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 7:55 pm Post subject:

dosraider · Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 4:53 am Post subject: