Spyro Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 I have a couple of games wich I want to play again on xp but they're all win95 games. I have a lot of problems to run these little old but FUN games on my pc even when I use the compatibility modus win95 Any other retro gamers here that have the same problem. Help appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefly2442 Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 What are the games? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannik Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 Although it's a little odd to configure, DOSbox is a fantastic tool for getting older games to run under XP. As you mentioned Win95, that was a GUI that ran over the MSDOS core of the operating system. Since MSDOS was phased out in XP (XP is based on the parallel NT development cycle, and has no DOS foundation at all), older games won't work without some sort of emulation. DOSbox is one such tool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 Dang, when I saw retro in the title I thought this was for the amiga. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spyro Posted February 17, 2007 Author Share Posted February 17, 2007 Thx Dannik I'll try that tool and see if I can run the games Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spyro Posted February 17, 2007 Author Share Posted February 17, 2007 I installed DOSbox and a tool named D-Fend v2. I installed the game went to D-Fend ran the game profile wizzard. Then said run game hit enter in DOSbox, DOSBOX said "This program cannot be run in DOS mode" The games I tried are SlamTIlt, Motoracer 1 and Motoracer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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