ANyone have one?

[LordShard]

Anyone have a win95, win98, or win98SE cd they don't use anymore?

[Evan Profile Website]

I have one of each, but you can't use them.

[LordShard]

Why not? I wanna play my old DOS and older Win games like fallout, fallout 2, MW2, MOO2, ST rebellion while I wait for my RMAed processor to get back.

Yes I already tried wine, it only works 1/2 the time and then not very good when it does.

[Joe Pesci]

I hate MS for making us buy 3 copies of XP for each computer, instead of letting our entire neiborhood use the same disk!

[LordShard]

It's only illegal if it's installed on more than one PC.
If it's not on any PC and you let me have it and use it MS can't do anything.

[007 Profile ICQYIM]

Originally posted by LordShard
Why not? I wanna play my old DOS and older Win games

DOSBox

Here are some commands to get you started:
Before you can use the files located on your on filesystem, you have to mount the directory containing the files.
For Windows:
mount c c:\dosprog will create a C drive in DOSBox with c:\dosprog as the contents.

When the mount has sucessfully completed you can type C: to go to your freshly mounted C: drive. You can run files with extensions .exe, .bat, .com.

You can also set one file to do the above commands automatically so you don't have to do it every time you launch the emulator. If you wish to do this, open your DOSBox.conf file in your DOSBox folder with a text editor such as Notepad and scroll down to the part where it says:

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.

Here's what I have mine set to:

mount c c:/dos_games (Mounts hard drive)
C: (Switches to mounted HD)
cls (Clears screen)

Useful keys if you need them:
Ctrl F5 - Takes Screenshot (320 * 200)
Ctrl F11 - Decrease emulation speed
Ctrl F12 - Increase emulation speed

[LordShard]

Thanks, but will it allow me to play my games? That I know of a dos emulator will only let me play a couple games I have, like fallout 1, capitalism plus, MW2 and battle isle 2000.

As nearly all of my dos collection was lost when hurricane mother decided to throw all my consoles CDs and games away. I haven't been able o rebuild my dos game collection. :\

[Sewer-Urchin]

Try going to http://www.the-underdogs.org that's the best site to reminisce about how great games used to be. IMO many of the older games are much better than the ones now. The designers didn't have all the fancy graphics to work with, so more effort went into the storyline and gameplay. Seems like I had this discussion with someone at the meet up but I can't remember now...

[shockwave203 Profile]

Originally posted by LordShard
ST rebellion

do you mean starwars rebellion?

if so, i use to play that game all the time! my friend and I always played against each other online. I always destroyed his fleets with my super star destroyers

[Agent-Commando]

Fragile Allegiance.

nothing like having the choices of either:

a) building a massive fleet complete with capital ships and fighters, bombers out fitting them with whatever you want (shields, bombs, lasers)

b) build missiles (explosives, biological, nuclear, or the uber big one where you blow up an entire planet)

c) spend spies to sabotage

d) outfit your planet with a planetary engine, and set it to maximum speed and have it collide with an enemy planet LoL!

[LordShard]

Yeah STar Wars Rebellion, if your friend ever get a chance to build a bulwark battlecruiser your super would losoe in a 1vs1 head on fight unless you could get around to it's sides where your broadsides are more powerful than his.

And I never played fragile alliance.
I have MOO2 though.