![]() Ultio, for some examples you can check in this thread. Lots of people seem to like System Shock and the Ultimas (including the two Ultima Undergrounds), but I have no first hand experience. ![]() It seems they can be bothered to provide us with X-Wing/Tie Fighter in Windows/DirectX glory, but not Day of the Tentacle. Ultio > classic DOS games that will storm triumphant through the annals of history include Stunts / Sports 4d Driving (two names in two different territories, one game), Chuck Yeager's Air Combat, Robocop 3, Car & Driver (broadly similar to a low tech version of the original Need for Speed), The Incredible Machine and all of the older LucasArts adventures. Have you considered just partitioning about 100mb of your hard disc off and formatting it DOS style, then making a boot disc? Most graphics cards are still cga and ega compatible, although I notice that Nebulus (an EGA game) doesn't work on my Riva TNT2. I haven't found a DOS game that doesn't run under 2000 once I equipped it with VDMSound, but maybe I am not pushing the envelope enough. Ironic, that Tyger Spirit was MORE advanced than Halflight in that regard.īTW, Tyger Spirit is from my pre-Allegro days, and written in ugly Turbo Pascal code, so no chance of it ever being recompiled for modern OSes. Otherwise, you'd hear the precursor to Crusade's voice dialogues. (Though if you have problems, like no XMS driver loaded or can't hear sound, try DOSBOX.) Music works, but the digital sound effects won't play. I've included DOSBOX with it - if you're running Win2k/WinXP then run "tygerspirit.bat", otherwise those with a DOS-based OS can just run "TYGER.EXE". TS was a shooter much like HL, but side-scrolling. So if you want to see the game I was working on before HalfLight, you can download it at this location: Tyger Spirit along with DOSBOX. One good thing, is I managed to get Tyger Spirit to work. (Probably uses the old trick of calling FPU op codes and then trying to catch it with an invalid opcode ed to auto-detect the presense of an x87 floating co-processor) I'm not sure if I would have better luck sticking DOS 5.0 on it.Īnyway, has anyone else made a stab at this? I'm curious to see if you have. It also wouldn't play my QBASIC games as they appearently replied upon hardware floating point. I could get some of my older VGA demos to work in this, but sound never worked. I used FreeDOS, because I have no idea where my DOS 5.0 diskettes are at. So, unlike the other two, you must actually install and configure an OS on it. I haven't tried DodGE much, but likely it would be more useful for the older CGA games.īochs (Using FreeDOS) - Bochs uses a slightly different approach than DodGE and DOSBOX - it emulates an ENTIRE x86 PC. This one is going to be shareware, however. They plan to add EGA/VGA, sound blaster, etc. Only supports a small subset of BIOS/DOS functions, and only contains CGA graphics support. But, I can play Silpheed in EGA mode under it, with Adlib sound even!ĭodGE - The weakest of all three. Also, the digital sound system seems to be a bit dodgey. (With invalid opcode.) I think because it has the same problem as Bochs. I've tried three different programs so far:ĭOSBOX - It works the best of all three, however it immediately crashes when I try to play compiled QuickBASIC games. I've been trying to get DOS emulation to work under WinXP/Win2k so I can play really old DOS games, and I have had mixed results.
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