older game incompatibility

[help please]

I'm trying to play the very old game "Master of Orion"
with windows xp. it installed fine, but at the very end
of the installation an error message came up saying "to
play this game you must have an EMS Driver installed"
which is a driver that supports expanded memory in DOS. I
need to know if there is anyways that I can play this
game through windows xp's dos emulator. I've been
working on this for a while, but I don't know enough
about comps to get this stupid game to work. please help.

 

[Jimmy S.]

Hi help please,

When a game is a DOS game, it could work using compatibility mode:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=292533 or by using the Multiboot
bootdisk from: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~lpcd/downloads.html
and always check at fileplanet.com to see if there's a patch available.

With DOSBOX you can emulate a DOS computer on your XP desktop:
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/information.php Or try MS Virtual PC:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/virtualpc/downloads/trial.asp
which allows you to install DOS or to run any operating system inside XP.

If you prefer to explore other advanced methods, here are two excellent
tutorials I've found on the subject: http://www.dosgames.com/xphints.php
and http://home.earthlink.net/~angeldancer27/XpGameList.htm For sound
issues use: http://www.ece.mcgill.ca/~vromas/vdmsound Good Luck!

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Cheers, Windows XP MVP Shell / User
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| I'm trying to play the very old game "Master of Orion"
| with windows xp. it installed fine, but at the very end
| of the installation an error message came up saying "to
| play this game you must have an EMS Driver installed"
| which is a driver that supports expanded memory in DOS. I
| need to know if there is anyways that I can play this
| game through windows xp's dos emulator. I've been
| working on this for a while, but I don't know enough
| about comps to get this stupid game to work. please help.