Blake Stone & old DOS games

Midnight · 04-22-2004, 05:22 PM

Can I run old DOS games like Blake Stone & Wolfenstein on my Win XP machine? Do I have to do anything special to get them to run? If I remember correctly I think years ago with a Win95 machine, I had to boot into DOS in order to play some games. Will I have to setup my current PC to dual boot?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Night Hacker · 04-22-2004, 05:28 PM

A dual boot would probably be your best bet if you (like me) want to play your old DOS games.

Personally, I took a bunch of old parts I had laying around and I threw together a second system with straight DOS installed. It's actually been alot of fun playing around with DOS 6.22 again.

Midnight · 04-22-2004, 05:47 PM

Someone said I shouldn't have a problem running these old games on my Win XP box the way it was. They suggested downloading CPUkill to slow down my system.

I think I will setup a second, slower PC to use just for playing games.

8IronBob · 04-22-2004, 06:39 PM

Yeah, even DOS Box would be too slow for some of the more recent DOS-based games, but for older ones like these, Wolf 3D and Blake Stone would run with minimal problems with spped or anything else for that matter. As for other games like Rise of the Triad, Terminal Velocity, Duke 3D, Shadow Warrior, etc... Those would significantly slow down DOS Box to a screeching halt, and eventually crash on you.

I tried doing that before. I tried Bio Menace on there, but that kept freezing on me up the wazoo, can't find a good way to make that game run with DOS Box very efficiently at all. Having an old boot disk for a DOS program would be beneficial, but I highly advise trying another method using an XP computer like these days, I can't think of how that would work at all.

Rider · 04-23-2004, 01:17 AM

WMWare is a very good Virtual Machine program that would probably do the trick as well... if you have sufficient CPU to run an extra computer that is...

04-22-2004, 05:22 PM	#1
Midnight	Blake Stone & old DOS games Can I run old DOS games like Blake Stone & Wolfenstein on my Win XP machine? Do I have to do anything special to get them to run? If I remember correctly I think years ago with a Win95 machine, I had to boot into DOS in order to play some games. Will I have to setup my current PC to dual boot? Thanks in advance for any help!

04-22-2004, 05:28 PM	#2
Night Hacker	Re: Blake Stone & old DOS games A dual boot would probably be your best bet if you (like me) want to play your old DOS games. Personally, I took a bunch of old parts I had laying around and I threw together a second system with straight DOS installed. It's actually been alot of fun playing around with DOS 6.22 again. __________________ "My general feeling is that computers are doing more harm than good." - Jay Miner ("father" of the Amiga)

04-22-2004, 05:47 PM	#3
Midnight	Re: Blake Stone & old DOS games Someone said I shouldn't have a problem running these old games on my Win XP box the way it was. They suggested downloading CPUkill to slow down my system. I think I will setup a second, slower PC to use just for playing games.

04-22-2004, 06:39 PM	#4
8IronBob	Re: Blake Stone & old DOS games Yeah, even DOS Box would be too slow for some of the more recent DOS-based games, but for older ones like these, Wolf 3D and Blake Stone would run with minimal problems with spped or anything else for that matter. As for other games like Rise of the Triad, Terminal Velocity, Duke 3D, Shadow Warrior, etc... Those would significantly slow down DOS Box to a screeching halt, and eventually crash on you. I tried doing that before. I tried Bio Menace on there, but that kept freezing on me up the wazoo, can't find a good way to make that game run with DOS Box very efficiently at all. Having an old boot disk for a DOS program would be beneficial, but I highly advise trying another method using an XP computer like these days, I can't think of how that would work at all. __________________ PC Specs (a.k.a. "Galacticus Prime"): http://pcpartpicker.com/p/7Vk7FT

04-23-2004, 01:17 AM	#5
Rider	Re: Blake Stone & old DOS games WMWare is a very good Virtual Machine program that would probably do the trick as well... if you have sufficient CPU to run an extra computer that is... __________________ Duke4.net - Duke's OTHER home. HeadbangersFM - The station that keeps your head banging! ------------- She's pretty, not "damn-she's-making-my-noodle-dance-samba"-pretty, but still very pretty... - Micki!