DOS Games Discussion

As far as I know:

Windows 95, Windows 95 A = MS-DOS 7.00
Windows 95 B, Windows 95 C, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE = MS-DOS 7.10
Windows ME = MS-DOS 8.00

NT is more solid and reliable, and for some things it might even be faster and stronger. But it is a mighty gamble, and depending on what software/hardware you're running, the switch to NT 4 might be ...

OK guys.

Macintoshes tend to be more reliable while Windows tends to be more flexible. Just like an elastic band is more likely to break than a tight rope. If you want a system that almost never cr ...

Naw, what that means is if VPC 2004 screws up on XP Home, Microsoft can then point at you and say "Ha Ha I told ya so!". It is possible for it to work on XP Home though.

Nonetheless VPC is a fair b ...

Extreme Pinball is a 32-bit game, and therefore Windows XP and DOSBox will have a much tougher time with it. The chances of getting it to work right in XP/DOSBox are about 1 out of 500.

Your only h ...

I had problems with other Apogee/3-D Realms games installers. I think your computer might be too fast, a lot faster than the computers that existed when the game was brand-new.

If you can, try inst ...

Okay, I did some work over the wkend on a potential redesign ... heres the example I came up with:

http://www.dosgames.com/2005/

Nothing super drastic, tried to keep the general feel of the site ...

It's awful hard when all guests share the same "account".

The only way to ban them would be an IP address ban, and even that is precarious.

You may need a slower computer. See if you can get access to a slow, older computer to run the game on.

Windows 2000 and Windows XP use almost identical kernels, and therefore about 99.9% of the time whatever works in 2000 will work in XP, and whatever doesn't work in 2000 also will not work in XP.

I ...

Guys, do we need to be so mean and insulting? Come on now, let's be a bit nicer. This shouldn't need to be.

Shadow1: It's best if you explain yourself a bit clearer from now on. We can't read your ...

http://www.brain.uni-freiburg.de/~klaus/pascal/runerr200/download.html

TPPatch might help.

Ned: That is sick and depraved. Go back to where you came from, we don't want your graphical poison here.

Guest: This forum has had its share of garbage, it happens a fair bit.

Locked.

Locked before it grows into a big mess...

Let's try to keep the abandonware propagation to a minimum here, OK? Thank you.

See http://www.dosgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5028