old games curent computers

Drunken Monkey · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:20 pm Post subject: old games curent computers

any tips as to how to get a good modern gaming computer running XP, XP Pro, and or XP 64 bit to run games from......say the days of DOS and windows 95?????

wile i am on the same topic, any one have any of the mechworrior games (the only one i have is Mechworrior 2, and still miss playing it to this day) that are willing to either sell the game itself, or a working copy?

(all i can play of Mechworior 2 right now is the songs on the CD through real player.....does not even work when i save the songs to my HDD either lol)

other old games that i would like to play again are, the rise and rule of ancient empires, Conqueror 1086 AD (one of the best games of the mid 90s in my opinion. really reminds me of the total war series as to the shier verity of options and combat. some of it is FP style, other bits of it are strategy, yet others are town, forest, and castle development, then you have the campaign map Razz

) (DOS) and ultimit domain (DOS)

have not tryed Furry 3 since that time.....not sure if it works yet or not.
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AlMightyBob · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:51 am Post subject:

There's a progam called DOSBox that runs old games but I haven't a clue how to use it, maybe Google can help you there.
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nav · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 4:36 pm Post subject:

I once found a program that could fix the sound issues that running DOS games in the XP console had. Unfortunately, it's been quite a while, and I don't remember the name of it. It did work pretty well, though, so there is hope.

You could always create a Virtual Machine to run DOS, if you can get access to the DOS installer files. That worked pretty well for me.
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Brutus · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:21 pm Post subject:

I have had little luck running older games period. Let me know if YOU find something. Very Happy

I have Mechwarrior 4 (black knight AND mercenaries). Not yours! Wink

Love em...
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Stealth · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:12 pm Post subject:

I've got Mechwarrior 4 and Mercenaries too. =P

I use the keyboard miraculously. But I haven't play it in a very very long time.
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Drunken Monkey · Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 1:28 pm Post subject:

for sale??? Razz

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Brutus · Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 3:09 pm Post subject:

Nope. Gave them to my Dad for a bit. Not his either!

I got them on Ebay. Try there. Very Happy

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Drunken Monkey · Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:41 am Post subject:

well, can some one at least run me through DOSbox some time then......dont even know what all from the site to DL lol
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