DOS Gamers, want to play your old games?
 

found there's a dos emulator that emulates a 286 to let you play old dos games at their normal speed
I'm planing on using it to play Starflight 1 and 2
http://dosbox.cjb.net/


edit: if a mod comes by, could you please put the correct "your" in the title, I had a brainfart. Thanks

you are my hero. I have been looking for a 286 emulator to run some old pascal animations I wrote in highschool. They are minutes long and on today's computer's they run in a fraction of a second. I'll give this a try.

I haven't installed it yet but it looks promising. I'm pumped to try it with starflight 2 as I never got very far into it before upgrading my processor

Sweet! X-Com, here I come!

Hoho... I'm playing it right now! :D

Mmm.. X-Com..

Cool! I was on the Underdog site last night and it has some great stuff I wanted to try out, I'm gonna try this when I get home tonight!

cool, I wonder if it works with Lexi-Cross. Great game :)

ok, I'm a dork....how do you work this program? I am stumped.

the site has a list of tested games, as for how to get it to work, I'll post that after I get around to playing with it

Ditto, but I'm playing on XP with 90% slowdown and all the speeds set to 1.

it doesn't appear Lexi-Cross is listed, I hope I can play it, I love that game.

Yeah any help on showing me how to work it would be great :)

Damn, Sam and Max cd-rom not supported

I got my old p233mmx machine back from my mom when she moved onto her boat, so I think I'll end up using that to play some of my older games.

But I bet even that machine will be too fast for some of those games. I'll have to give this a try.

did anyone get Crusader: No R to work?

well, I only ran it long enough to make sure Starflight 2 would load but this is how I did it, on a P3 500 running win98se
I installed dosbox to D:\dosbox installed starflight 2 (not downloaded, I actually found the box with disk and map) to d:\sf2
opened a dos prompt and typed
d:
cd dosbox
dosbox d:\sf2
this opened dosbox and made d:\sf2 the C: for the emulator
then I simply typed the name of the bat file to start starflight
didn't have to do any special configuring

Have you tried the Scumm Emulator? That's supposed to let you run old LucasArts adventure games in windows.

http://www.ece.mcgill.ca/~vromas/vdmsound/

I use this guy to play old DOS games.