Help! Old DOS game won't work!

[John Smith]

Was running fine under W2kPro but won't start up under XP Pro. I tried all
the 'compability' settings. Game is Dark Colony.

Would a PIF file work? What would I put in it?

 

[Zebedee]

Have you tried right-clicking it and setting it to run under DOS mode?

 

[Brian C]

Zebedee
You cant do that with xp. You can tell the program is the advance
not to recognize windows. That does not work most of the time.

Brian C.

 

[John Smith]

I did the right click then clicked on "Run as" and there I told it to not be
conserned with security. That did the trick.
Thanks!

 

[mrsliminbend]

Was running fine under W2kPro but won't start up under XP Pro. I tried
all
the 'compability' settings. Game is Dark Colony.

Would a PIF file work? What would I put in it?

i am having a the same sort of problem i am trying to run the 11th
hour i got it to find the sonds stuff i go and try to run the
program and it acts like it is trys to run and then goes right
back into windows any ideas?

 

[Maurice N ~ MVP]

Using Program Information Files (PIF) (like we used to use in Win9x/Me) is a good idea.
Bring up Help and Support (from the XP menus). Search on "create custom startup files for an MS-DOS-based program".
First, setup a shortcut to the program. Then go thru the "properties" of shortcut to specify what it needs.

Look up in XP's Help and Support Center, in its search box:
"Set up two shortcuts for an MS-DOS program "
"Create or change a PIF"

 

[Guest]

theres also a program called dosbox which allows you to run dos games in
windows xp i have had no problem with running any dos game using dosbox so far