DOS games under Win2k
I'm trying to play a really (as in REALLY old DOS game) on win2k. But everytime I scroll (in the menu screen) the game automatically closes and prompt me back to desktop. Is there anyway to solve it? I downloaded and installed VMDSound and Service Pack3 as suggested.
I'm trying to play a really (as in REALLY old DOS game) on win2k. But everytime I scroll (in the menu screen) the game automatically closes and prompt me back to desktop. Is there anyway to solve it? I downloaded and installed VMDSound and Service Pack3 as suggested.
Looking forward to any helpful answers!
PS- not even final fantasy 7 for pc works
i want to play pizza tycoon!!!
Looking forward to any helpful answers!
PS- not even final fantasy 7 for pc works
i want to play pizza tycoon!!!
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Hi ChewyCaCa,
Do you mind if I ask you what your name means? I hope it's a joke about chewbaca, because Caca (in Spanish) isn't anything I'd ever want to be chewing . Okay here's something you might try:
You could enable exclusive mode for your mouse. Right click over the .EXE or .COM file that launches your game and choose properties. Then navigate to the tab in the picture below and enable exclusive mouse mode and click OK.
Please let us all know if that worked. So we'll know for future reference. I just recall seeing that option I don't think it's ever helped me though. I have heard of people having a problem in dos games where their mouse is stuck in a the upper left region (one of the corners any ways) and no matter how much pressure or time they applied to moving in out of that region it just wouldn't go. Perhaps SP3 fixed that, but who knows. If you still can't get your game to work. Try one of the following emulators:
1. Virtual PC (the best by a large margin)
2. VMWare (cool program has a few different features than VPC, like the ability to take a screenshot).
3. Bochs (still a complete X86 emulator, but this is cryptic and difficult to set up, I've personally never was able to install my own OS, I could only run their lame command-line version of Deluxe Linux). The nice thing about Bochs is you can choose what CPU you want to emulate whereas every body else pretty much requires you to emulate a specific PC.
4. DosBox (this is the most intuitive dos emulator out there, but the problem is it doesn't support almost anything yet.) Nonetheless you might make it the first one you try, because it's free and easy to try out. Just read the readme.
Good Luck,
Christian Blackburn
Do you mind if I ask you what your name means? I hope it's a joke about chewbaca, because Caca (in Spanish) isn't anything I'd ever want to be chewing . Okay here's something you might try:
You could enable exclusive mode for your mouse. Right click over the .EXE or .COM file that launches your game and choose properties. Then navigate to the tab in the picture below and enable exclusive mouse mode and click OK.
Please let us all know if that worked. So we'll know for future reference. I just recall seeing that option I don't think it's ever helped me though. I have heard of people having a problem in dos games where their mouse is stuck in a the upper left region (one of the corners any ways) and no matter how much pressure or time they applied to moving in out of that region it just wouldn't go. Perhaps SP3 fixed that, but who knows. If you still can't get your game to work. Try one of the following emulators:
1. Virtual PC (the best by a large margin)
2. VMWare (cool program has a few different features than VPC, like the ability to take a screenshot).
3. Bochs (still a complete X86 emulator, but this is cryptic and difficult to set up, I've personally never was able to install my own OS, I could only run their lame command-line version of Deluxe Linux). The nice thing about Bochs is you can choose what CPU you want to emulate whereas every body else pretty much requires you to emulate a specific PC.
4. DosBox (this is the most intuitive dos emulator out there, but the problem is it doesn't support almost anything yet.) Nonetheless you might make it the first one you try, because it's free and easy to try out. Just read the readme.
Good Luck,
Christian Blackburn
