Running an ancient game with XP

[JoeSpareBedroom]

OK, you old fart MS superstars - remember Duke Nukem? My son's facing
college in September, so I think he's trying to relive his childhood. He
asked me to get the old Duke game running. I allowed it to do its install
routine, double clicked the duke3d.exe file, and I get 2 seconds of a
DOS-like full screen box, which then vanishes with no error message. Do I
need to create some sort of pif file for this, so it gets special treatment?

 

[Ron Martell]

OK, you old fart MS superstars - remember Duke Nukem? My son's facing
college in September, so I think he's trying to relive his childhood. He
asked me to get the old Duke game running. I allowed it to do its install
routine, double clicked the duke3d.exe file, and I get 2 seconds of a
DOS-like full screen box, which then vanishes with no error message. Do I
need to create some sort of pif file for this, so it gets special treatment?

See the following website for information about this game and Windows
XP: http://buildxp.deathmask.net/

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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has never been in bed with a mosquito."

 

[Rock]

OK, you old fart MS superstars - remember Duke Nukem? My son's facing
college in September, so I think he's trying to relive his childhood. He
asked me to get the old Duke game running. I allowed it to do its install
routine, double clicked the duke3d.exe file, and I get 2 seconds of a
DOS-like full screen box, which then vanishes with no error message. Do I
need to create some sort of pif file for this, so it gets special
treatment?

There is a games newsgroup. Might be a better place for this question.
microsoft.public.windowsxp.games

 

[smlunatick]

OK, you old fart MS superstars - remember Duke Nukem? My son's facing
college in September, so I think he's trying to relive his childhood. He
asked me to get the old Duke game running. I allowed it to do its install
routine, double clicked the duke3d.exe file, and I get 2 seconds of a
DOS-like full screen box, which then vanishes with no error message. Do I
need to create some sort of pif file for this, so it gets special treatment?

Old DOS games tend to have problems with XP especially with sound
cards. I was somewhat able to get it to work under VDMSound. Or you
may want to look at DOSBox.

 

[ronald.phillips]

Old DOS games tend to have problems with XP especially with sound
cards. I was somewhat able to get it to work under VDMSound. Or you
may want to look atDOSBox.

http://jonof.edgenetwork.org/index.php?p=jfduke3d