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DOSBOX - Play your old DOS games on Windows XP and 2K
Posted: 2003-09-02 12:05am
by MKSheppard
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1
I command Phong to Stickyfy this, it's so damn cool and easy to use!
This has been up long enough, time to drop it. I'll add it into the FAQ - Phong
Posted: 2003-09-02 12:09am
by Alyeska
Sweet as! Thanks Shep, I've been looking for something like this for ages. Consider it stickified.
Posted: 2003-09-02 12:26am
by DPDarkPrimus
Sweet.
8D!
Posted: 2003-09-02 01:52am
by The Yosemite Bear
Cool
DIE ALIEN SCUM!
The Emporer Commands You to DIE!
Death to the enemys of My Craft World!!!
Ohh, Rogue, Nethack etc....
Posted: 2003-09-02 04:11am
by Batman
I am so downloading this right now!
OK, the download worked, so I must assume that either it won't install or my old DOS game disks are toast...
Posted: 2003-09-02 07:12am
by Xon
Some usefull settings you might want to change to allow non-admins to use the TEMP dir:
Using an admin account:
My Computer Properties->Advanced->"Enviroment Variables"
On the "System Variable" group box:
Find the variables "TEMP" & "TMP" and change the values to: "%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp"
This way, the temp directory points to the user's temp directory instead of the global temp dir.
This will also allow some DOS/windows games which use the "TEMP"/"TMP" Enviroment Variable to find the temp path
Posted: 2003-09-02 10:29am
by JodoForce
Great, now post some DOS games to go with the DOS box
Posted: 2003-09-03 02:44am
by Shrykull
JodoForce wrote:Great, now post some DOS games to go with the DOS box
I don't fully understand it, if you drag a program onto the dosbox dos icon it will do the same thing as if you mounted the program using that command, it will also use the executable file to start it up, but in DOS in truncates the file so it will conform to it's naming system, and can't execute that file on a command line.
Posted: 2003-09-03 09:43am
by TheFeniX
Of course, now I can't find my copy of UFO.
Posted: 2003-09-03 12:25pm
by phongn
Shrykull wrote:JodoForce wrote:Great, now post some DOS games to go with the DOS box
I don't fully understand it, if you drag a program onto the dosbox dos icon it will do the same thing as if you mounted the program using that command, it will also use the executable file to start it up, but in DOS in truncates the file so it will conform to it's naming system, and can't execute that file on a command line.
If it properly truncates using the DOS 8.3 file name abbreviation system there is no problem.
Posted: 2003-09-03 06:19pm
by Embracer Of Darkness
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG! I can play 'Ascendancy' again!
Oh, Shep, bringer of good news. I love you, even though I'm straight.
Oh, and I don't care if Ascendancy sucks, I've always loved it.
Posted: 2003-09-03 06:37pm
by Coaan
Hell yes! all those games that were lost can finally be played again!
Posted: 2003-09-03 08:08pm
by MKSheppard
Embracer Of Darkness wrote:OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG! I can play 'Ascendancy' again!
I don't think you can play it...yet...Ascendancy was a Protected mode
Dos4/GW app...remember that?
They have support for that in their as-unreleased CVS build...but
the windows binaries dont' support it yet
Posted: 2003-09-03 08:24pm
by phongn
Gah. DOS4GW is quite possibly the worst-designed extender ever.
Posted: 2003-09-04 11:33pm
by Shrykull
phongn wrote:Shrykull wrote:JodoForce wrote:Great, now post some DOS games to go with the DOS box
I don't fully understand it, if you drag a program onto the dosbox dos icon it will do the same thing as if you mounted the program using that command, it will also use the executable file to start it up, but in DOS in truncates the file so it will conform to it's naming system, and can't execute that file on a command line.
If it properly truncates using the DOS 8.3 file name abbreviation system there is no problem.
I gotta be doing something wrong here, I'll post the pic if I can, just gotta find a place I can upload it to.
Posted: 2003-09-06 09:26am
by JodoForce
phongn wrote:Gah. DOS4GW is quite possibly the worst-designed extender ever.
Why? Back when DOS was really DOS all my 4gw games worked, whatever startup config I used. That's a successful extender in my book
Posted: 2003-09-06 11:47am
by phongn
No, it usually worked, but it was poorly written. It does not play nice.
Posted: 2003-09-07 05:57pm
by Drooling Iguana
Anyone know if Under a Killing Moon will play with this? I bought it at a pawn shop for $8 a couple of weeks ago, but haven't been able to get it to run in Win98.
Posted: 2003-09-07 06:12pm
by Crayz9000
phongn wrote:Gah. DOS4GW is quite possibly the worst-designed extender ever.
A pity that it's required by Warcraft and Warcraft II...
Posted: 2003-09-07 09:41pm
by phongn
Years ago, there actually was a DOS4GW that cooperated with Windows - but here's the rub: you had to pay for it. It faded into obscurity quite quickly, especially as DirectX began gaining wide acceptaince.
Posted: 2003-09-09 02:00am
by Stark
CURSES! Star Control 2 escapes me again!
*sigh*
I haven't been able to place SC2 since installed xp, and with music for even longer. And now it works...
...
...
but in Funko-visionTM! Everytime the screen mode changes, the palette gets more and more wrong!
Posted: 2003-09-09 08:10am
by Mad
Stark wrote:CURSES! Star Control 2 escapes me again!
http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
Still in testing phases, but, hey...
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Posted: 2003-09-12 11:40am
by Col. Crackpot
fuck yeah! i'm dowloading this at home and playing Master of Orion I and Starflight II w00t!
Posted: 2003-09-12 06:47pm
by Shrykull
it doesn't put it the truncated file correctly when I drag the program onto the dosbox icon, when I type it- say police~1 it tells me it must run under win 32, how do I get it to?
Posted: 2003-09-16 10:24am
by MKSheppard
I got a CVS snapshot build that runs protected mode games! I'll shortly be
putting it up on my site so you can download it!