DOS Games Discussion

Vangar · Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:18 am Post subject: Dosbox just got killed.

Virtual PC is now 100% free, you can get it from:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/downloads/sp1.mspx

This gives perfect DOS emulation, but the catch is you need a copy of Windows 98 or the old DOS Floppies (Which i have, woo!)

emmzee · Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 10:43 am Post subject:

Oooooh ... fancy. I'll try it out later today. I have a copy of MS-DOS 6.22 sitting on my HD ... wonder if there's some way to use that .... hmmms ...

franpa · Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 4:58 pm Post subject:

http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8344

Thunderdog · Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 6:21 pm Post subject:

I'd still be better off using DOSbox. Unless I can get a pirated copy.

Edit; That was easy. MS Dos 6.22, a whopping 3.95 MB.

Vangar · Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 6:21 pm Post subject:

Oh right... haha sorry, i've been posting it at all the forums i visit, and forgot this was the source XD

EDIT:

franpa · Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:43 pm Post subject:

100% free as in no limitations what so ever except that you can't run Vista with it.

Thunderdog · Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:11 pm Post subject:

Vangar · Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:40 pm Post subject:

Oh, fair enough then.

KAN · Newbie Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 7

Question: can Virtual PC emulate various vintage sound cards like Roland MT-32, Adlib, etc, like DOSBox does?

franpa · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:56 am Post subject:

nope... it emulates (rather poorly [lacks emulating an IRQ]) a soundblaster 16/awe32.

AdamN · Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:22 am Post subject:

Larry, Virtual PC has been around for ages, however only Apple Mac users really knew about it and the software was quite expensive. See, Virtual PC allowed an Apple Mac user to run Windows Based Applications, which were never intended to be released with Apple Mac. Of course, most software company's don't support Apple Mac, so if the user of the Apple Mac ran into a problem with the Windows Based Application, it was never given, this is due to the fact that the user had an unsupported OS with an unsupported configuration to run the Windows Based Application.

Of course, now Microsoft have incorporated the technology to run applications that were MS-DOS 6, FAT16 and FAT32 based. However, DOSBox will be needed to play most games before Windows 95.

franpa · Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:30 am Post subject:

yep virtual pc suxors in the emulation department... think of it as a hackers dosbox build... everything was hacked together to work rather then actually trying to get the right end result they got a result that suited them...

Vangar · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:51 am Post subject:

Really... it seems to run all my old DOS games fine when in pure DOS, and not Windows 98.

franpa · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:19 am Post subject:

try getting sound fx and music at the same time in a build engine game... eg: blood/duke nukem 3d/shadow man

also settlers 2 fails to run... milo the fuel run fails... and i think i tried cannon fodder... also some of the devs told me how shitty the code is in virtual pc compared to dosbox...

Larry Laffer · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:19 pm Post subject:

Hmm people... Can I get a FREE version of DOS from somewhere? any version is ok with me!