Solve : Loading and playing old DOS games in MS-DOS?

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Answer» I would like to PLAY some of the early Ultima DOS games in MS-DOS instead of trying to run them through windows. Is that possible on a windows 95 computer?Have you tried it? A Win95 machine should play most dos games.I haven't tried it yet. I was going to get the Ultima 1-8 package which are probably some of the oldest dos games there are. I was reading reviews how they run badly in windows and thought running them in DOS would give them the best shot. It wouldn't hurt to try windows first but I would like to find some info on how to run them from dos since that is what they were made for.Quote from: Amats on April 29, 2013, 09:12:54 AM I was reading reviews how they run badly in windows Windows 95/98/ME/W2K/XP/Win7/Win8? Which windows? Why not just give DOSBox a try ? ? I was going to suggest that - but the spec PC in his SIG shows an old machine - and DOSBOX is very slow on a 3.5 GHz I7 Quad core machine. At least for SkyGlobe it is. Maybe Virtualbox using MSDOS would give better SPEED than DosBox... (if Virtualbox runs under Win95 - that's not likely) or an older version of VMware.I may misunderstand but wouldn't you want it to slow down an i7 for older DOS games ? ?Emulators generally have an automated throttle to slow them down to real frame speed - when they are fast emulators. My point is that running a slow emulator on a 466 MHz machine means it is going to be even slower. I had nowhere near real speed in SkyGlobe on my I7 box.Why not just get an old PC from a thrift shop?Quote from: foxidrive on April 29, 2013, 08:46:22 PM I had nowhere near real speed in SkyGlobe on my I7 box. This is off-topic, and I don't know specifically what you use that software for, but you could try a program like Celestia.Thanks for the thought.The Ultima series of games (1-8) came out for the Atari 8 bit 400/800/XL/XE and Commodore 64 systems and I don't know what others it was programmed for and reviews SAY the early ones run very fast but instructions are given for how to make them playable so I think I will just get the 1-8 package and see what it takes to run it. Should be an interesting experience to see the way it used to be.

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I would like to PLAY some of the early Ultima DOS games in MS-DOS instead of trying to run them through windows. Is that possible on a windows 95 computer?Have you tried it? A Win95 machine should play most dos games.I haven't tried it yet. I was going to get the Ultima 1-8 package which are probably some of the oldest dos games there are. I was reading reviews how they run badly in windows and thought running them in DOS would give them the best shot. It wouldn't hurt to try windows first but I would like to find some info on how to run them from dos since that is what they were made for.Quote from: Amats on April 29, 2013, 09:12:54 AM

I was reading reviews how they run badly in windows

Windows 95/98/ME/W2K/XP/Win7/Win8? Which windows? Why not just give DOSBox a try ? ?
I was going to suggest that - but the spec PC in his SIG shows an old machine - and DOSBOX is very slow on a 3.5 GHz I7 Quad core machine. At least for SkyGlobe it is.

Maybe Virtualbox using MSDOS would give better SPEED than DosBox... (if Virtualbox runs under Win95 - that's not likely)

or an older version of VMware.I may misunderstand but wouldn't you want it to slow down an i7 for older DOS games ? ?Emulators generally have an automated throttle to slow them down to real frame speed - when they are fast emulators.

My point is that running a slow emulator on a 466 MHz machine means it is going to be even slower. I had nowhere near real speed in SkyGlobe on my I7 box.Why not just get an old PC from a thrift shop?Quote from: foxidrive on April 29, 2013, 08:46:22 PM

I had nowhere near real speed in SkyGlobe on my I7 box.

This is off-topic, and I don't know specifically what you use that software for, but you could try a program like Celestia.Thanks for the thought.The Ultima series of games (1-8) came out for the Atari 8 bit 400/800/XL/XE and Commodore 64 systems and I don't know what others it was programmed for and reviews SAY the early ones run very fast but instructions are given for how to make them playable so I think I will just get the 1-8 package and see what it takes to run it. Should be an interesting experience to see the way it used to be.

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