can i play old dos games on my xp platform?

[cleofus1]

is there software that can make this possible? i want to play holloween harry (alien carnage) but windows won't let me...bastards...

[TroubleMan]

1. DOSBox

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1

[cleofus1]

2. i downloaded dosbox

and now i can't figure out how to use it :0

i'm such a schmuck...i'll figure it out in a couple of days,

mount c c:\carnage

and then i don't know what to do...

[TroubleMan]

3. I've only used it a couple of times (for Jagged Alliance), so I'm not an

expert.

You'll have to check out the faq's on the site.

[YOY]

4. Ivan Says...

"After one is mounting the drive. One must be locating the appropriate file on the mounted drive. Be prepared to put in an address a few levels deep until you locate the .exe file needed to be running the game."

Once in Dosbox use DIR/W to explore the mounted drive and go into a few levels. I recall something like Mydocume~1 being one of the folders that lead to where most of my files were stored in a handy way. Explore the dos environment until you find the right spot remember the following commands.

DIR/W to list the files you can go into

cd (DIRNAME) to enter DIRNAME Directory file.

cd.. to go down a level.

[cleofus1]

5. a ha i did it

just went from the z prompt and mounted the drive with this command

mount c C:carnage (hit enter)

then i was able to enter a c prompt at the z prompt like this

Z:\C: (hit enter)

then at the C prompt i entered

C:\carnage (hit enter)

everything played just fine...and i have the full version on disc....so no problems!

well there is one thing...it plays on a small screen...i have to figure out how to play it on a full screen...but i have hope now!

[cleofus1]

6. well i tried to get DESCENT to play

but so far no luck....
i guess the process is not uniform with all the different games...now i remember why i hated DOS...