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Topic: Some help with Star Control 1 please... (Read 5817 times)
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Yehat_Sympathizer
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A question that might be relevant - how do I run a DOS-only compatible program in windows XP? how do I sort out all the EMS mess in there? I haven't used DOS in years...
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Nic.
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For most old DOS-only games, you'll really want to try DOSBox. Especially with the newer releases of Windows, which have been doing their best to break backwards-compatibility in recent years..
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Yehat_Sympathizer
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still working my way around dosbox. how do you get to the part in the beginning of windows where choose the modes (VGA, safe mode etc.)?
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PakoPako
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I'm not a user of DosBox, so I wouldn't know, but that sounds like you're trying to RESTART Windows in native DOS mode.
I always thought Dos Box was an emulated program, much like console emulations open up their own window of operation. Anycase, to answer your question:
On a Windows 95/98 or WinME machine (grr.. stupid backslash-ME), simply tap, repeatedly, the F8 key above the row of numbers on your keyboard. The window is around 3 seconds, so feel free to start jamming as soon as your computer finishes its RAM check and before the Windows Splash Logo pops up.
For other versions, I don't think they allow you to enter DOS mode (Windows 2000, Win XP, et al) because MS has disabled it or something.
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Novus
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I always thought Dos Box was an emulated program, much like console emulations open up their own window of operation. Anycase, to answer your question:
Correct. DosBox probably won't work very well in safe mode or VGA mode or any other cut-down mode of Windows, and you probably won't be able to run it at all in MS-DOS mode.
On a Windows 95/98 or WinME machine (grr.. stupid backslash-ME), simply tap, repeatedly, the F8 key above the row of numbers on your keyboard. The window is around 3 seconds, so feel free to start jamming as soon as your computer finishes its RAM check and before the Windows Splash Logo pops up.
Windows ME does not support booting from the hard disk into MS-DOS mode due to changes in the boot sequence. You will have to make a boot disk instead.
For other versions, I don't think they allow you to enter DOS mode (Windows 2000, Win XP, et al) because MS has disabled it or something.
Windows 2000 and XP are based on Windows NT, which is actually a completely different operating system. Windows 95, 98 and ME are based on MS-DOS and the original Windows.
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Installing Display Doctor seems to allow you to run SC3 under XP without an emulator at all. The link to it was provided earlier in this thread.
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Well, yeah, but SC3 was more modern... what's the issue? And what's the point?
(ok, I back off of that one)
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