Comments on: How To: Play OLD DOS Games on your XP, 2000, Linux, Free BSD and MAC with DOSBox

By: molly

molly — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:50:18 +0000

Never mind, I figured it out. After mounting, I never changed z:\> to c:\>

By: mike

mike — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:55:05 +0000

i am tying to play an old dos game called police quest 3 and when i play it under dosbox it goes fast when i get into the police car and i can’t stop. Is there any way i can slow down the graphics? I think that is the problem i guess.

By: molly

molly — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:58:24 +0000

I’m trying to run the old Dinotopia came on DOSbox and I mounted it to c:\dino (the file that the exe is in) and it says it has mounted. If I then try running dino.exe, it says illegal command, so I looked at dir and none of the files listed there are actually IN the c:\dino file. Any ideas?

By: Raj

Raj — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:42:55 +0000

Thank you for the information Hakatak. I am sure it’s going to help our visitors.

By: Hakatak

Hakatak — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:02:36 +0000

If u need cd check on full throttle or any other game , make an iso of the game and mount it with any virtual cd , and mount it again in dosbox , and start the game normaly

By: hayley

hayley — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:41:49 +0000

hi, i have been trying to get conquest of the new world to work on my computer with xp. i have dosbox, and it does start to load up. part way through loading up a new game, it says that i need a cdrom to run the game and that it cannot find one. however i do have the original cdrom and it is in the drive as i load dosbox and the game up.

any ideas on how i can overcome this?

By: Raj

Raj — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:45:37 +0000

Spencer,
That shows that the command that you are trying to execute is either not there or the dosbox is unable to run it. I will do a little bit of search on this and if I find something for you then I will send you an email with information.

By: Spencer

Spencer — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:56:07 +0000

so i followed all the directions on the dosbox website and tried to play primal rage on my xp

i ran the install.exe fine and when i pressed “save and play”, the dosbox window came up and said “illegal command prage.exe”

any suggestions?

By: Tereza

Tereza — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:39:58 +0000

i wonder why of all the games My favourite Gobman cannot open, even though ilike Pacman, Gobman gives me Complete pLeasure. Kindly advise me the Site for Gobman, how to Down load or even just playing the Game. My one Gobman Ever No. one

By: steve

steve — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:03:12 +0000

well i tried it. i tried the cycles at 4500, 10,000, 12,000, and 1000. none of them helped. i do notice however that when stargunner actually starts that the number next to cycles disappears and it says “max” no matteer what i set the cycles to beforehand. its weird because this the only game that is just unplayable, usually the worst problem ill have with a dos game is there isnt any sound but i can live with no sound

By: Raj

Raj — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:35:41 +0000

Steve,
This seems to be a common problem with running old dos games on newer systems using dosbox. It was the first thing I noticed when I tried dosbox. I had to then increase the frame cycles to 4500+ and it was then smooth and also could run the game full screen.

Please increase the cycles to 4500+ and let me know if it works or not.

By: steve

steve — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:48:21 +0000

i am having the some problem markus is with stargunner not running smoothly. is there a solution?

By: Raj

Raj — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:22:11 +0000

KNUCKL3Z,
Can you tell me what is the error message you see on your system?

By: KNUCKL3Z

KNUCKL3Z — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:30:42 +0000

hi Raj

what i wanna know is does this emulator run on windows vista i’m mean when you are actually playing it because i’m trying to play wolfenstien 3D (i really love that game, it was the first game i ever played in my life) and it won’t let me start it…do i have to change the name of some of the files so it can make emulator easier to read it?

By: niall

niall — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:50:53 +0000

that didnt work… e: is my dvd drive and d: is my hard disk. incase it makes a diference to what i must type. when i do what u say tho, its says

mscdex install.
drive d is mount as cd rom e:

so now do i play it from its e: directory? direct from the cd?