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12-05-2004, 12:29 AM
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A craving for the oldies
So the other day I was looking thru my old old games. Games like descent, raptor, the crusader series and wing commander. I really wanted to play the crusader series again so I tried to install them under the cmd prompt in XP. To my dismay these games were to old to install and run under XP. But wait I have good news for those of you that want to play those old games again. I found a program called Dosbox. THis program will let you play all your old games in XP. Its a bit tricky to learn but if you go to google and do a search on it you can find things like mounting your cd drives and such. There is also alot of abandonware out there that you can get to use with dosbox. I have been researching abadonware lately and it seems to be on the up and up but i found a definition of it on wikipedia that states it's illegal. Oh well you can still play all your fav shareware games. Heres the link for Dosbox for those that are interested. http://dosbox.sourceforge.net
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12-05-2004, 01:42 AM
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Gremlin Overlord
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LOL Nice find... I often end up resorting to various emulators to play my old favourites
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12-05-2004, 01:50 AM
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Ahhh, Raptor... I haven't heard that in a while. What was that, early 90's?
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12-05-2004, 08:29 AM
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Sounds great I am there.
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12-05-2004, 09:39 AM
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I heard DosBox works by having the DOS emulator make it think you have a much slower processor then you really do, which I suppose is a reason why the games don't run. I don't know, but if you get it working right be sure to post back to let us know.
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12-05-2004, 10:14 AM
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i got it working right last night. You have to tweeak a little in game. You can control the cpu cycles. it starts at 3000 and you just hit ctrl+f12 until the game moves smoothly. You can also play with the frame rates with ctrl+f8.
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