Help with MS-DOS please

[Guest]

When i try to play old games such as Kings Quest The tex in the game is
Corrupt and garbled, Someone said something about ' 8x14 font '

If any knows how i can fix this, could you please run me through it.

Thanks

 

[Randy Harris]

When i try to play old games such as Kings Quest The tex in the game is
Corrupt and garbled, Someone said something about ' 8x14 font '

If any knows how i can fix this, could you please run me through it.

Thanks

I've experienced the same problem. It's possible that you are trying to play
a game that uses an EGA font. Those fonts are embedded into the old EGA
video controllers. About the only thing you can do is keep an old junker
computer around for playing games.

 

[Guest]

I've experienced the same problem. It's possible that you are trying to play
a game that uses an EGA font. Those fonts are embedded into the old EGA
video controllers. About the only thing you can do is keep an old junker
computer around for playing games.

Yes that is a good idear, Thanks but the confusing problem is. all these
games used to run fine before i done a system restore??

Thanks

 

[Mike Williams]

I've experienced the same problem. It's possible that you are trying to play
a game that uses an EGA font. Those fonts are embedded into the old EGA
video controllers. About the only thing you can do is keep an old junker
computer around for playing games.

This site may help: http://users.snip.net/~besterp12/

 

[Guest]

This site may help: http://users.snip.net/~besterp12/

Thanks for the link, but i cant seem to find anything on this currupt text
thing

 

[Doug White]

Keywords:

Yes that is a good idear, Thanks but the confusing problem is. all these
games used to run fine before i done a system restore??

If it worked before, it sounds like it lost your font file. You need two
things: a fixed pattern font file with the appropriate resolution, i.e.
8x14, and the program has to know to use it.

Assuming system restore didn't erase the font file, you may be able to
"re-link" to it. Check out the "Font" tab in the properties of the
shortcut you use to launch the program. If you don't have a shortcut,
you should create one.

Alternatively, if you have the program running in a window, click on the
little "C:\" icon at the upper left of the window, and check out the font
tab under properties. There should be an 8x14 font you cna select there.

Also, be careful with the difference between the XP command line system
"cmd.exe", which LOOKS like DOS but isn't at all, and "command.com",
which is XP's DOS emulator. You need to make sure you are using the
later one. This can be guaranteed in the program tab of a shortcut by
entering a line like:

%windir%\system32\command.com /c C:\"your program goes here"

I forget what the "/c" switch does.

I've had problems with the font settings not "sticking", so you may
have to try a few times.

Doug White

 

[Bible John]

I would try running the game on a older PC. There are some games that will
not run in XP's DOS mode. They may require a native DOS mode. So its best
to keep that old 486 around. The other day ago I bought a old 1989 DOS game
off ebay, and it required a pre Pentium PC to read the floppies.


John

 

[Plato]

When i try to play old games such as Kings Quest The tex in the game is
Corrupt and garbled, Someone said something about ' 8x14 font '

If any knows how i can fix this, could you please run me through it.

Run them on an older PC with the proper OS for the games you want to
play.