Ultima 1-6 CD, How would I play these DOS games in Win2k pro
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YEEEES!!! SOMEONE ACTUALLY ASKED THIS QUESTION!!! To play DOS based games IN Windows 2000 IS NOT POSSIBLE! ONLY IN WINDOWS 95/98 ONLY! Unless someone develops a DirectX patch for Windows 2000.
DOS based games work in Windows 2000. Only games that use exotic memory managers doesnΒ΄t work.
You find under downloads a trial version of SoundFX NT which enable sound and joystick support in DOS games.
You find under downloads a trial version of SoundFX NT which enable sound and joystick support in DOS games.
Also, any game that attempts any "unsupported" direct hardware access will fail...
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SuperMicro P6DBS (dual UW-SCSI) BIOS 2.2, 2*Celery 300a @ 450Mhz, 384MB PC100 RAM
SCSI-A=4.3Gb+9Gb, SCSI-B=Tosh32x CD-ROM, Yamaha4416 CD-RW, Iomega ZIP100, IDE1=4.3Gb
IBM EtherJet 10/100 NIC PCI + Nortel ADSL "modem"
Matrox G400 DH 32Mb AGP + Quantum3D Voodoo2 SLI PCI (CL TNT1 AGP on a shelf)
SoundBlaster Live PCI (not Value)
Win2K build 2195 Retail (not 120-day eval)
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SuperMicro P6DBS (dual UW-SCSI) BIOS 2.2, 2*Celery 300a @ 450Mhz, 384MB PC100 RAM
SCSI-A=4.3Gb+9Gb, SCSI-B=Tosh32x CD-ROM, Yamaha4416 CD-RW, Iomega ZIP100, IDE1=4.3Gb
IBM EtherJet 10/100 NIC PCI + Nortel ADSL "modem"
Matrox G400 DH 32Mb AGP + Quantum3D Voodoo2 SLI PCI (CL TNT1 AGP on a shelf)
SoundBlaster Live PCI (not Value)
Win2K build 2195 Retail (not 120-day eval)
Quote:Originally posted by Philipp:
DOS based games work in Windows 2000. Only games that use exotic memory managers doesnΒ΄t work.
You find under downloads a trial version of SoundFX NT which enable sound and joystick support in DOS games.
This is news to me What games work? I still can't get Dune II work! Plus Syndiacate Wars doesn't run. Anything DOS totally failed
DOS based games work in Windows 2000. Only games that use exotic memory managers doesnΒ΄t work.
You find under downloads a trial version of SoundFX NT which enable sound and joystick support in DOS games.
This is news to me What games work? I still can't get Dune II work! Plus Syndiacate Wars doesn't run. Anything DOS totally failed
Quote:What games work?
Loom
Kings Quest 1-4
Monkey Island 1-2
Duke Nukem 3D (320*200 resolution only)
Loom
Kings Quest 1-4
Monkey Island 1-2
Duke Nukem 3D (320*200 resolution only)
