I have a friend with a mid-1980's Amiga PC running Amiga Dos with the Amiga OS Workbench shell. He has LOTS of games for this computer on FLOPPY disks.

Will these Amiga Dos games work on MS Dos? Are all Dos operating system compatible with programs, are Apple Dos games compatible with MS dos ones?The abbreviation DOS stands for "Disk Operating System". In the 1980s there were plenty of different computers which had Disk Operating Systems. Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS-DOS for short) was one. Apple DOS (Apple II 1978-1983) was another. Amiga DOS was yet another. LET's not forget Atari TOS (Tramiel Operating System). They all ran on different hardware and are not compatible with each other. At all. Period. However you might be able to run some Amiga and Apple games on a Windows PC using an emulator program, but I think you'll have trouble reading the floppies.


indeed,- DOS bac kthen meant what OS means now. In fact, it's still really a "DOS" since we almost always deal with a hard disk or other disk, but for the most part that is no longer it's Main feature.The question is not a bad question. At one time many of us were hoping there would be a day when interchange stuff goes from one personal computer to another.
That day is now coming, - at last.
Very soon now!
Thanks guys.

I used a bit of DOS growing up (mainly Apple DOS) but I am not that familiar with it as a lot of PC's were running 95/98 by then. I use MS DOS (or FREEDOS) now almost daily and I'm trying to learn it.

I'll probably try an Amiga emulator and hope I don't have problems reading the floppys.I have some old Amiga games on my laptop like MOONSTONE, Elite 2: Frontiers, betrayol at Krondor, Wings, beneath a steel sky, north and south etc etc and I get them to work fine through DosBox but you will have to hunt down the freeware games off the internet they are out there if you look. Some you will have to pay for but there cheap as you like. yup DOSBox 0.72 gets u there, but u gotta know what ur dl. like me, im trying to run K240 [amiga uber strategy game] on my PC but im having no luck. i had little trouble starting up its PC sequell Fragile Allegiance, but DOSBox isnt seeing the files i dl for k240.

btw, what is an .adf extension?
and does anyone possibly know or play k240 that can help me install it?

so far i got the DOSBox to see INSTALL file of the k240, but its not an .exe file somehow cus i cant install it, nor do i see any setup.exe or anything else that can fire up the game.

what i do see is the following:

Source [dir]
install
install~1.inf
k240.inf
k240~1.exo
k240~2.sla
manual
manual~1.inf
readme
readme~1.inf

so what can i do here, anyone?DOSBox emulates MS-DOS, not Amiga DOS.

ok, thats a good start. any idea on what i need?An Amiga emulator.Or a new topic