DOS Games Discussion

[alakim4447]

my computer is running on windows ME and I cant get my 'are you afraid of the dark' game to play! I've been dying to play it since I havent played it forever! my computer says that I need to run the game in ms-dos mode, but I cant run my computer in that mode with windows ME...or can I? I am so confused! someone please help me!!!!! thanx

[Cakephatt]

Win ME SUCKS. I hated every second of life that I held the box in my hands to the time I angrily gnawed on my 2400 pentium untill it broke.
But anyway, I don't know much about it, but I do know that the origional 16-bit DOS isn't on windows ME. I think it is just an emulator. This is when microsoft first began their un-dos based windows madness. It's sickening just to think about it.
I got this from some website before I un-installed ME.

Format the floppy (You have to do this through command prompt I think) and then copy the IO.SYS and COMMAND.COM files from C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\EBD to the floppy.

With My Computer... Insert a floppy disk into drive A:, Click Show Desktop , Double-Click My Computer, Right-Click the floppy drive, select Format from the resulting menu, and click Start. After the floppy is formatted, Double-Click the C: drive, Double-Click the WINDOWS folder, Double-Click the COMMAND folder, Double-Click the EBD folder, click the COMMAND.COM file to highlight it, hold the Ctrl key and click the IO.SYS file to highlight it as well, Right-Click the IO.SYS file, select Copy from the resulting menu, Right-Click the Floppy Drive (A:), and select Paste from the resulting menu. All done. You may have to change your CMOS Setup to boot to the floppy. It it is set that way, restarting Windows will boot to the newly created Boot Disk.

I don't know if it would help you or not, I never tried it, but you can. I don't even know if you can create a DOS boot disk if it doesn't support Dos at all. I am satisfied with my 95 and Dell.