Playing dos based games in Win2k no dos emulation

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cheeser

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Tring to get old game of blood going in win 2k it works but no sound,i tried dos emulator in soundblaster but will not work in win2k any ideas??


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ipdave

ipdave

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You would have a much better chance with XP; it supports emulation modes back to Win95 (which is DOS with a GUI on top). 2K is NT 5.0 with no real DOS support built in. Most games will not run with it. XP is the merging of the old Win9x/DOS and NT/2K.
 
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cheeser

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ipdave said:
You would have a much better chance with XP; it supports emulation modes back to Win95 (which is DOS with a GUI on top). 2K is NT 5.0 with no real DOS support built in. Most games will not run with it. XP is the merging of the old Win9x/DOS and NT/2K.
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Thank's for Advice.
 
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LTR12101B

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http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/comp_list.php?orderby=name&letter=B

I thought I had something for you, but BLOOD is unsupported - still, this may help with some others, and I'd never heard of it until I tripped over it by accident.

Best idea for old games, is to get/keep an old machine, loaded with a genuine ISA BUS Soundblaster card (PCI or VL-Bus graphics are probably ok, but you don't want PCI sound)

Some games are well nigh impossible to run under any form of emulation, or in machines many times faster than expected.

It may also be possible to prepare a bootable CD, if a larger loadout is required than will fit on floppy - not got time now, but search for hints on ruinning "Elite 2" or "Frontier" - that attracted quite a few tips for running in the modern era - be back later with anything I rustle up!
 
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