Old MsDos Games

[Guest]

In a fit of nostalgia I tried to run Quake and Duke Nukem on my system
although they both installed OK when run they go to a black screen then exit

I have tried using the compatability settings but to no avail

Any ideas?

 

[Smoker~]

In a fit of nostalgia I tried to run Quake and Duke Nukem on my system
although they both installed OK when run they go to a black screen then
exit

I have tried using the compatability settings but to no avail

Any ideas?

 

[Malke]

In a fit of nostalgia I tried to run Quake and Duke Nukem on my system
although they both installed OK when run they go to a black screen
then exit

I have tried using the compatability settings but to no avail

Any ideas?

Since there is no native DOS in XP - only the emulator - some programs
will work and some won't. A lot of people recommend DOSBox for running
old games:

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1

Malke

 

[philo]

Since there is no native DOS in XP - only the emulator - some programs
will work and some won't. A lot of people recommend DOSBox for running
old games:

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1

that's worth a try but also note that many of the old games simply
will not work because the CPU is just too fast
(some of the games relied on the older, slow...cpu timing loops)
you may try the utility called moslo, it should come up on google

 

[Glen]

In a fit of nostalgia I tried to run Quake and Duke Nukem on my system
although they both installed OK when run they go to a black screen then
exit

I have tried using the compatability settings but to no avail

Any ideas?

In the Quake directory, double click on "qlquake.exe" NOT "quake.exe" and it
should run just fine in XP.

 

[Tony Lisanti]

I think you can run a virtual machine to make it work.

OR..........


Right click, select comparability, then select "run this program in
comparability mode for...", and try to select windows 95. This might
work