DOSBOX - Play your old DOS games on Windows XP and 2K

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-09-02 12:05am

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

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2003-09-02 12:09am

Sweet as! Thanks Shep, I've been looking for something like this for ages. Consider it stickified.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2003-09-02 12:26am

Sweet.

8D!

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-09-02 01:52am

Cool

DIE ALIEN SCUM!

The Emporer Commands You to DIE!

Death to the enemys of My Craft World!!!

Ohh, Rogue, Nethack etc....

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2003-09-02 04:11am

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...

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2003-09-02 07:12am

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

JodoForce · Post by **JodoForce** » 2003-09-02 10:29am

Great, now post some DOS games to go with the DOS box

Shrykull · Post by **Shrykull** » 2003-09-03 02:44am

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.

TheFeniX · Post by **TheFeniX** » 2003-09-03 09:43am

Of course, now I can't find my copy of UFO.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-09-03 12:25pm

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.

Embracer Of Darkness · Post by **Embracer Of Darkness** » 2003-09-03 06:19pm

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.

Coaan · Post by **Coaan** » 2003-09-03 06:37pm

Hell yes! all those games that were lost can finally be played again!

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-09-03 08:08pm

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

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-09-03 08:24pm

Gah. DOS4GW is quite possibly the worst-designed extender ever.

Shrykull · Post by **Shrykull** » 2003-09-04 11:33pm

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.

JodoForce · Post by **JodoForce** » 2003-09-06 09:26am

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

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-09-06 11:47am

No, it usually worked, but it was poorly written. It does not play nice.

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2003-09-07 05:57pm

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.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-09-07 06:12pm

phongn wrote:Gah. DOS4GW is quite possibly the worst-designed extender ever.

A pity that it's required by Warcraft and Warcraft II...

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-09-07 09:41pm

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.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2003-09-09 02:00am

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!

Mad · Post by **Mad** » 2003-09-09 08:10am

Stark wrote:CURSES! Star Control 2 escapes me again!

http://sc2.sourceforge.net/

Still in testing phases, but, hey...
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Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-09-12 11:40am

fuck yeah! i'm dowloading this at home and playing Master of Orion I and Starflight II w00t!

Shrykull · Post by **Shrykull** » 2003-09-12 06:47pm

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?

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-09-16 10:24am

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!