DOS Games Discussion

hi, I'm desperately looking for "BIGTOP" a dos game that i used ti play several years ago, I think it was from '83 or 84, location of the game was a circus, very minimal graphic..
please help!!!

It is simplicity itself, dear Watson.

WOW!!thank you so much

I've been looking for that game for years too!!!

But I have just one problem... My computer hasn't 3.5'' disk drive... blondeinside, was you able to run it?

thanks...

You don't need a floppy drive.
Inside the archive you'll find 2 zipfiles.
BIGTOP-IMG.ZIP -> bootable game image for floppy.
FLOPPER.ZIP -> a flopdrive emulator.
Don't use the flopper emulator.

Extract bigtop.img to c:\games
Run dosbox.
Input:
boot c:\games\bigtop.img
That will boot the image.
Keep your cycles low.
Select difficulty with 1-9.
Use the numpad keys to play.

Thanks dosraider, but it didn't work... DOS doesn't recognize the word "boot"...

Ahem! Not DOS[or XP's Command Prompt], but DOSBox

That's a totally different thing

*Edit
Edited URL, was typo in it ~dosraider

Oh my .... n00bs.....


Disregard that 'n00bs' ... my fault, I wasn't specific enough.


Of course dos don't recognise that, this isn't a MSDos command, the 'boot' command is a specific DOSBOX command.


As you can see it's used here in DOSBOX 0.72, my imgfile is on E:\.
Works flawless.

Bottom line:
Install dosbox 0.72, unzip bigtop.img in c:\games\
run dosbox
input at dosboxprompt
boot c:\games\bigtop.img

and there you go.

Whilst I'm on it ......
Lower the CPU cycles or your game will be unplayable.
To lower the CPU cycles:
hit CTRL+F11
To rise them:
hit CTRL+F12
In dosbox of course, that won't work in a MSDos command window.

Capiche?

*Edit
Kicking Larry's arse right now. How dare you post whilst I'm typing?

Great!!! It worked!!!

Thanks everybody...

You're welcome, sarosaripeta.

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