<div class="IPBDescription">don't ban me</div> i don't know if this should be put in discussion but i really need to know how to play video games in a winXP computer.
They have a variety of DOS boot disks you can use, including those with sound driver support. If used in conjunction with a small FAT16 partition you leave aside on your XP disk, you can DOS to your heart's delight.
And the reason your old DOS games won't work is somethig called the HAL. If you're interested, I can explain further, but it's basically what keeps your apps from directly talking to hardware (and the reason why your Win98 machine will blue screen every day and your XP/2000 machine will hardly ever bluescreen).
<!--QuoteBegin--Burr+May 6 2003, 10:10 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Burr @ May 6 2003, 10:10 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> omg, its sad to have to go through so much trouble just to play some old games, lousy microsoft.... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> it's better than still keeping legacy support for just a few old games...
you can't innovate when you're carrying around legacy support..
<!--QuoteBegin--EnemyATheGates+May 7 2003, 10:29 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (EnemyATheGates @ May 7 2003, 10:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> after getting the stuff from bootdisk.com, now what? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> <i>The following advice comes from a teen who managed to ruin his computer TRYING TO SWITCH XP ICONS! I am not liable to any damage you may inflict, and it would be best to have a more advanced user validate my advice</i>
Geez... do you REALLY want to go through this? It'll be painful, or maybe it's because I had bloody onboard sound.
Should of asked this earlier, but you do have a FAT file structure, right? From what I understand, if your file system is NTFS, you won't be able to read your hard drive in DOS.
I'm there are 3 forms of compressed boots out there: there are some in zip form, some that have their own exe to extract to disk, and there are those with an .img extension. Basicially, format a floppy disk, pop it in, and extract the data into the floppy. If you have a a .img file, you need a specific program like <a href='http://www.winimage.com/' target='_blank'>WinImage</a> to extract it out for you. Once the data is on your floppy, you'll probably need to configure your autoexec.bat and config.sys files, don't ask me how to do this, cause it varies from PC to PC, (but you should still be able to boot to DOS, maybe missing some stuff though). After that restart your computer with the floppy inside, and you should be booted to DOS.
Good luck from there, and best wishes that you don't end up trashing anything too seriously.
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Or you could try <a href='http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1' target='_blank'>DOSBox</a>.
<a href='http://www.bootdisk.com' target='_blank'>bootdisk.com</a>
They have a variety of DOS boot disks you can use, including those with sound driver support. If used in conjunction with a small FAT16 partition you leave aside on your XP disk, you can DOS to your heart's delight.
And the reason your old DOS games won't work is somethig called the HAL. If you're interested, I can explain further, but it's basically what keeps your apps from directly talking to hardware (and the reason why your Win98 machine will blue screen every day and your XP/2000 machine will hardly ever bluescreen).
it's better than still keeping legacy support for just a few old games...
you can't innovate when you're carrying around legacy support..
<i>The following advice comes from a teen who managed to ruin his computer TRYING TO SWITCH XP ICONS! I am not liable to any damage you may inflict, and it would be best to have a more advanced user validate my advice</i>
Geez... do you REALLY want to go through this? It'll be painful, or maybe it's because I had bloody onboard sound.
Should of asked this earlier, but you do have a FAT file structure, right? From what I understand, if your file system is NTFS, you won't be able to read your hard drive in DOS.
I'm there are 3 forms of compressed boots out there: there are some in zip form, some that have their own exe to extract to disk, and there are those with an .img extension. Basicially, format a floppy disk, pop it in, and extract the data into the floppy. If you have a a .img file, you need a specific program like <a href='http://www.winimage.com/' target='_blank'>WinImage</a> to extract it out for you. Once the data is on your floppy, you'll probably need to configure your autoexec.bat and config.sys files, don't ask me how to do this, cause it varies from PC to PC, (but you should still be able to boot to DOS, maybe missing some stuff though). After that restart your computer with the floppy inside, and you should be booted to DOS.
Good luck from there, and best wishes that you don't end up trashing anything too seriously.