Cant play DOS games on XP.

[DiabloX]

I have some old games I want to play that require MS DOS.
I have Window XP and all it seems to have is Command
Prompt. The games will not work inless I get DOS most
likely but I need to know what DOS to get.I don't wanna
go off and mess up my Windows XP. Can anybody direct me
to a download area for MS DOS that will no harm my
windows XP and let me play MS DOS based games?
Thanks

 

[Donald Link]

Would be helpful if you gave us some idea what games you are discussing and
the amount. Also how old since some games try to directly access the
hardware and xp will not let you do it. Have you tried right clicking on
the exe file for the games and click properties and tried some of the
settings.