Dosbox dosbox dosbox. Problem solved.
I have aquired a copy of Syndicate Wars. It runs on DOS. I have XP. Therein lies the problem.
What's a good solution? Dosbox? Is that easy to use and reliable?
Thx.
Dolemite, the Bad-Ass King of all Pimps and Hustlers
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Dosbox dosbox dosbox. Problem solved.
You sir, are a hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.
Yup...Dosbox works. I also downloaded a nice front end that automates everything.
Thx.
Dolemite, the Bad-Ass King of all Pimps and Hustlers
Gymkata: I mean look at da lil playah woblin his way into our hearts in the sig awwwwwww
qemu!
Here's a list of various frontends (with links) available for Dosbox. Keep in mind that the frontend just enables you to bypass typing in command prompts to start a game. If a certain game isn't working with Dosbox, I don't think a frontend will help much.
FYI, I used D-Box. You just set the path to the game's .exe file. Then you double-click on the game you want to play out of a list and it does the rest. Simple.
http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/DOSBoxFrontends
How is it compared to Dosbox?
Last edited by Dolemite; 17 Feb 2009 at 03:30 PM.
Dolemite, the Bad-Ass King of all Pimps and Hustlers
Gymkata: I mean look at da lil playah woblin his way into our hearts in the sig awwwwwww
D-Fend Reloaded is my front end of choice. You're probably having trouble because UAKM is fussy about the need for the CD drive to be mounted as a CD drive. If you mount it as a Hard Drive or anything else, even if you point UAKM to that drive it'll say no dice.
There's an app that can construct a single disc (DVD) version of UAKM or install it to your HDD as well, which I recommend as a convenience as much as a solution to your problem because no one likes disc swapping.
http://www.adamhearn.co.uk/games/tex...aller_v1.3.zip
Last edited by Frogacuda; 17 Feb 2009 at 03:51 PM.
That will have zero bearing on things versus real CDs. It's all in how you configure your mounts, which is easy to do with D-Fend Reloaded. You can be mounting a real drive, virtual drive, even just a folder, it doesn't matter as long as you designate it as a CD drive to Dosbox.
But if you're going to put the whole thing on your hard drive anyway, just use the tool I posted to install the whole thing. It'll be much smaller on your drive (about 1.8 gigs) since there's redundant data between discs and you won't have to swap discs ever.
Last edited by Frogacuda; 17 Feb 2009 at 03:59 PM.
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