C0deZer0
Oc'D To Rhythm And Police
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join:2001-10-03
Davenport, FL
 ·Verizon FIOS
| reply to pcrules
Re: windows 7 and gaming
Hmmm... no idea. If it requires DOS, then I think you'd be SOL without some kind of tool.
One thing you could try doing is if you still have older Windows/DOS setup disks and the games don't specifically require a GPU, get VirtualPC and run them within the virtual machine.
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ImBatman
join:2004-04-21
Lancaster, CA
| said by C0deZer0  :Hmmm... no idea. If it requires DOS, then I think you'd be SOL without some kind of tool. One thing you could try doing is if you still have older Windows/DOS setup disks and the games don't specifically require a GPU, get VirtualPC and run them within the virtual machine. Nope. That won't work. Tried it. (I was told it wouldn't, but had to try anyway). Something to do with the fact that the Virtual PC doesn't share virtual memory with the video card, or something a bit too over my head, technically speaking). I tried to download drivers to the XP Virtualization, no luck. I already had drivers loaded, but..... |
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C0deZer0
Oc'D To Rhythm And Police
Premium
join:2001-10-03
Davenport, FL
·Verizon FIOS
| said by ImBatman :said by C0deZer0 :Hmmm... no idea. If it requires DOS, then I think you'd be SOL without some kind of tool. One thing you could try doing is if you still have older Windows/DOS setup disks and the games don't specifically require a GPU, get VirtualPC and run them within the virtual machine. Nope. That won't work. Tried it. (I was told it wouldn't, but had to try anyway). Something to do with the fact that the Virtual PC doesn't share virtual memory with the video card, or something a bit too over my head, technically speaking). I tried to download drivers to the XP Virtualization, no luck. I already had drivers loaded, but..... As I said, it only works if the game doesn't require a GPU. VirtualPC only emulated some basic display card; probably not much better than intel GMA.
Given the nature of most DOS games though, that shouldn't be a problem.
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elios
join:2005-11-15
Springfield, MO
 ·Mediacom
| if your messing with DOS/3.11 stuff then DOSBox FTW
for 9x stuff just use vmware or some thing most of that was stuff that wont run on XP was all FMV stuff any way that didnt really need a 3d card any way
and most early GLIDE games can be run with a GLIDE wraper |
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