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Say I want to be able to play command and conquer, day of the tentacle, original doom/heretic and all the old pc games, plus have typical modern music software and stuff. how is your setup if you play old games. Do you just use "dosbox"? I don't even remember if command and conquer (original) is supposed to be played on dos or win 95. or is it better to have partitions. that sounds too complicated for me to figure out. |
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After reading on "the internet", it seems like I need (windows 2000, or windows xp) with dos box... then also have a partition for windows 95. That should take care of all games. Or use "virtual pc" instead of partitioning, if that works good. I guess you can right click exe files and choose to run in win 95 mode while in xp or something. I wonder if I should get windows xp or windows 2000 though; I'd suck at linux too much probably. |
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How about "do something with your life". |
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same shit want to play x-com 3 and carmageddon 1 (no win95.exe) dosbox actually makes those games running very slow in my case some people in net recommend me to install 2nd system (win95) on pc - btw this is the best and fast way to run old stuff imho also it needs to be vdmsound stuff installed to run old shit usually |
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What OS are you running? I used to dual boot win2000 and win98, even in 98 some games didn't run because of the modern hardware but most ran ok. There's also a few that you can run to load those old games in your modern OS. For the point and click adventure games there is ScummVM just search it, it runs games like Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island,.... perfectly. |
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I just use Dosbox with a GUI. If your computer is relatively fast, you won't have a problem running whatever. Having a separate PC with Windows 95 sounds like fun, but I don't have the physical space for yet another PC. |
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I use Dosbox as well. Can't find anything not to reccomend about it. You type it, like the old Dos, you know, but that just adds to the charm. Have fun! |
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i put windows 98 (first edition) on a puter at home with 512mb RAM and a 3ghz P4. it runs absolutely everything. |
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Should I just get windows 98 and say sucks to windows 2000/xp all together? (I currently use win 2000 on my laptop). I would just experiment and see what os/ or combination works best, but I did that once before and ended up losing all the drivers (new pcs usually come with a drivers disc?), so I'd prefer to get a computer with an os freshly loaded on it to start with at least. Maybe I should just get xp since it is the most popular currently and probably has the most internet help/ utilities that run old games/ etc.. even though 2000 has better reviews. I need to buy a new computer that can burn cds and preferably has an lcd screen instead of a heavy tv-ish monitor. Ophecks and Sano's experiences regarding newer systems running old games seem to contradict. |
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there is an emulater called ScummVM that allows you to play all lucas arts games (day of the tentacle etc) on modern systems! it works |
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Most games ran really fast, Sega Rally, Cool Spot, Wipeout 2097, some didn't even ran at all like Pinball Illusions, dual boot is too much trouble if you ask me, there's a lot of info on the forums of http://www.the-underdogs.info/, same way most games can also run on modern OS's like 2k or XP they usually have instructions on the underdogs site. My OS is also win2000, XP has a win 95 compatible option it may be usefull to run these old games. |
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Well you'll never get 100% compat, but for the most part, it'll be fine. Of course occasionally you might have to make some extra effort to get some games to run. System Shock was a pain to get running. |
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pkunzip. dos/4gw. thems were the days. |
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I also want a quite computer... one I just looked at has 5 fans... I was looking at less popular "shuttle" computers earlier, really compact. Someone said they're quiet. |
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MS-DOS Version 3.23 C:\> cd games C:\GAMES> cd calgames C:\GAMES\CALGAMES\> start You've got 167K RAM more than you need, Dude. That's gnarly! Loading..._ |
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I'd use DOSBox for anything prior to 1997. |
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will play: Maniac Mansion Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Passport to Adventure The Secret of Monkey Island Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis Day of the Tentacle Sam & Max Hit the Road Full Throttle The Dig The Curse of Monkey Island These old school LucasArts games remain unsurpassed by any new adventure games in the last 10 years. (Ok The Longest Journey was non-lucas arts and pretty good I will admit.. think that came out in 2000) Strategy and Shooters are *tons* better nowadays- the old school originals hardly even worth playing- but these early 90s adventure games will remain king for a long time because The Adventure Game is a currently a dead medium. Also good are the the old Might and Magic RPGs, all the way up to 8. |
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Change the speed of Dosbox with CTRL + F11 and CTRL + F12 |
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I endorse this post with aplomb. I did read a review for the new Sam and Max game in Computer Games magazine a couple of minutes ago when I was taking a crap, so at least someone is still trying. |
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