Ok, I'm really annoyed. I've finally got around to fixing the DirectX and OpenGL problems Windows 2000 comes with, so I've been playing a bunch of cool games.
However, today I dug up my "pile-o-classics" (Syndicate Wars in particular), and none of them work anymore because Windows 2000 has a grudge against great grandpa DOS.
Does anyone know a way to work around this problem so I can have some good ol' DOS pie without downgrading to Windows 98?
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 Dec 6 2003, 8:51 pm
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Dec 6 2003, 8:59 pm
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Kusanagi
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Would it really be downgrading to Windows 98? Think about it.
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Heh. Windows 2000 is not really that great a gaming platform if you intend to play any old games. But Windows 98 does crash a lot. =P Maybe get XP? (Some people have problems with XP, some don't. With any luck, you'll be one of the latter!)
Or of course you could just get out a DOS boot disk. Provided you can get it to access your hard drive; if your HDD is partitioned as NTFS, then you have a problem! In this case, you could repartition your drive (preferably with a nondestructive program like PartitionMagic; if you use FDISK or similar, you'll have to back everything up first and then reinstall. But if you're going to that much trouble, you might as well dual-boot Win2k and Win98, which works pretty well). | |
A DOS boot disk would be the best way to go. Either that or multiboot with a version of DOS 6 on a small FAT16 harddrive partition. Downgrading to Win98 will help for a number of old DOS games, but certainly not all, or possibly even close to all. Win98 also has a grudge against DOS. Many of the more advanced/newer games won't run on Win98 or Win98's DOS 7.whatever.
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Couldnt you just use a NTFS Dos boot disk? After a quick search on google, it may be possible, http://www.ntfs.com/boot-disk.htm
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Either make a separate disk partition with a lower OS on it (Win9x, DOS) or try and emulate a virtual machine (that can be slow!)
- Partition Magic can add/remove/change partitions on your HD without erasing data. ~Kujila | |
Useful, I didn't realise NTFS boot disks existed. =) That'd be the way to go then. Much easier than repartitioning your hard drive!
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Crispy wrote:
...you might as well dual-boot Win2k and Win98... I second that vote. That way you get the best of both worlds- heck make three partitions, and stick Linux and the 3rd! then you get access to all the cool games for Linux too (that are not ported to Windoze!) :D http://www.happypenguin.org/ http://lgdc.sunsite.dk/ http://www.linuxgamepublishing.com/ http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~karlb/news/ http://linux.tucows.com/games.html and for those who want to play windoze titles on their linux box: http://linuxgames.com/ | |
