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21-Nov-2002, 03:48 PM

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playing old dos games on win xp

I was going thourgh my old games pile and I find a bunch of **** I'd like to play again. I can play most of them, but there isn't any sound. Anyone know how to correct this?

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21-Nov-2002, 04:06 PM

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remember DOOM
well the new one you need at least dual processors to make it work the way it should

other then that it looks like trash

weird they did that eh lol

21-Nov-2002, 04:23 PM

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Good old doom

Man, i remember when doom 2 came out and I thought it was the best game ever. Mostly cause it was multiplayer and we had a 'high tech' serial cable network setup at the time. Ahhhh.... those were the days. Sierra adventure games (Leisure suit larry rules), death rally, doom, duke 3d, etc.

Just trying to replay some of these games in win xp but the sound doesn't work.

21-Nov-2002, 04:29 PM

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yeah
im really haten XP right now
i can't play any of my burned games and its pissin me off

i doubt that any DOS game will work since XP doesn't have DOS at all

21-Nov-2002, 04:31 PM

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xp does have dos

go to accesories and click on command prompt then hold the alt key and hit enter...BOOYAA

21-Nov-2002, 04:46 PM

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Quote:

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xp does have dos

go to accesories and click on command prompt then hold the alt key and hit enter...BOOYAA

BOOOOYAAA, he's right! Hey that reminds me...you guys watch JKX, where he plays this twentysomething on the golf course, and he's hassling the other players, so he takes a shot, and screams BOOOYAA...it's super funny

Not a bad show at all in this age of reality TV

21-Nov-2002, 04:48 PM

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i OW3ND steve balmer at comdex!!!

ha ha ha

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21-Nov-2002, 05:51 PM

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Well the problem isn't playing the games. It's just that the games don't have no sound. And everyone knows you can't play lsl without the theme song playing in the background

21-Nov-2002, 05:54 PM

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what sound card are you using and is you PC speaker on alot of those games don't use sound cards...just pc sound...

21-Nov-2002, 06:03 PM

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using a sound blaster live
Before I switched to win xp, i was playing these games with sound in win me.

21-Nov-2002, 06:06 PM

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get the creative labs update for xp drivers from thier site..these will fix your problem and increase the overally effency of the sound card while allowing you to draw less resourses to run sound rich apps.

they are a great set of driver and will help DRAMITACLY (you see if yo umoniter performance)

21-Nov-2002, 06:23 PM

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Re: playing old dos games on win xp

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I was going thourgh my old games pile and I find a bunch of **** I'd like to play again. I can play most of them, but there isn't any sound. Anyone know how to correct this?

Thanks
warfa

In most cases you would be best to make a boot disk with the dos soundcard drivers...

click format with the option copy system files...

Find the DOS soundcard driver or generic driver for your soundcard..

Copy files to disk.

Verify hardware settings on card and or plug and pray enumeration...

If data too large burn a dos bootable CD and use as much space as you need.

Load them at boot by editting the autoexec.bat and config.sys file..

Run you game from the command prompt.

Select appropriate Game software audio driver and settings.

Shoot em up good...

21-Nov-2002, 10:39 PM

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Re: Re: playing old dos games on win xp

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In most cases you would be best to make a boot disk with the dos soundcard drivers...

click format with the option copy system files...

Find the DOS soundcard driver or generic driver for your soundcard..

Copy files to disk.

Verify hardware settings on card and or plug and pray enumeration...

If data too large burn a dos bootable CD and use as much space as you need.

Load them at boot by editting the autoexec.bat and config.sys file..

Run you game from the command prompt.

Select appropriate Game software audio driver and settings.

Shoot em up good...

Yeah, that's what I thought of doing, but i was hoping there would be an easier way without rebooting everytime. The only problem is with the EMS memory and all the other problems associated with old school gaming

22-Nov-2002, 10:50 AM

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The problem is that you need to run in pure dos not an emulation window from inside the GUI. Really no other feasible way.

You can use my old IBM PC portable.

Still works 2 5.25 floppies and a 20 MB hardrive.

What games you got??

Wanna trade?

22-Nov-2002, 11:19 AM

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Old school games are damn good

I pretty much busted out the old laptop with a blazing Pentium 233 MMX cpu and a whopping 32 megs of ram. I got tonnes of games made in the mid to late 90's. PM me with what games you want and I'll let you know if I got them or not. I pretty much have all the popular FPS and RTS games from those years.

22-Nov-2002, 11:26 AM

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Oh,

I am looking for late 80's early 90's games...

Oops....

Guess I'm starting to show my age....

22-Nov-2002, 11:31 AM

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OH JEEZ

Yeah, that's way beyond my gaming years. The only true 80's computer game i've ever played was asteroids. I never even had an atari or nothing. Only started playing games hardcore when super nintendo came out way back in middle school.

22-Nov-2002, 11:33 AM

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You CAN play all the original classics and some new games too..

[window]www.mame.net[/window]

I have 3600 ROMS for this and it kicks ***...

Street Fighter Tourney anyone????

22-Nov-2002, 11:34 AM

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I think its time manufacturers made their old games update with better graffix and sound support and released them again for free, to work on the new platforms out there