firefly2442 0 Posted October 26, 2003 Share Posted October 26, 2003 Not sure where to put this. In computer discussion or PC Games..... anyway, I have the mission force cyberstorm demo on an old game CD "Civil War Generals". I copied the folder with the contents of the demo to my hard drive like it says to do and tried running it but nothing happened. I then tried various configurations of XP compatibility for WIN 95 to no avail.... is there any hope for running this classic demo? Thank you. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Urban_Tiger 0 Posted October 26, 2003 Share Posted October 26, 2003 Not sure on the exact specs and useage for that particular game, but I play the odd old game that simply won't run on WinXP at all (Goldarnit lol)!!! You may have to get a DOS Emulator so that the game can run if it was designed to actually run fully in DOS and now Win. Then you may need to also go into the properites for the shortcut etc and set-up the DOS options too blah blah. That may or may not sort it, depending exactly on how ya old Game (Demo) was meant to run obviously !!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Giampi 39 Posted November 3, 2003 Share Posted November 3, 2003 The passage to NT keren from the good old DOS kernel could be a painful for us videogamers. Here is the way I solved all my problems: VDM Sound It's a small software, freeware. http://ntvdm.cjb.net/ Despite its name and the description in the homepahe it is perfect to run all the old software based on DOS kernel in NT,XP systems Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Specter 0 Posted November 3, 2003 Share Posted November 3, 2003 Or do like me and keep an old Pentium around with DOS on it for all the classics you still play. As a rule XP and 2K really hate real DOS apps, since they don't incorporate DOS in them at all. The last we saw of real DOS was with Win95. Win98/ME used a "Lite DOS" that wasn't true DOS either. Sigh. I miss DOS/Win3.11. They were the most stable and configurable of all of MS's OS's, and the most reliable. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firefly2442 0 Posted November 4, 2003 Author Share Posted November 4, 2003 I tried out the program and it didn't work. Thanks for the shot though. I think I'm probably just going to get my Win 95 CD when I go home for Thanksgiving, bring it back and put it on the currently linux machine. It'll be a little easier plus I'll have more experience with it and it will run faster. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Specter 0 Posted November 4, 2003 Share Posted November 4, 2003 I tried out the program and it didn't work. Thanks for the shot though. I think I'm probably just going to get my Win 95 CD when I go home for Thanksgiving, bring it back and put it on the currently linux machine. It'll be a little easier plus I'll have more experience with it and it will run faster. You can run a dual boot with 95/Linux, so that you don't have to sacrifice either one. The bad news is that you will have to format, and fdisk, then install Win95 first, then Linux, as Win95 requires the first active primary partition on the Primary HDD, since it is based on DOS. Then install Linux on the other partition, and install LiLO to a floppy. That way, whenever you want to use Linux, you just insert the floppy and restart. Windows 95 doesn't like any boot managers except for an old version of System Commander, and even that was iffy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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