I am trying to run Apache95 in dosbox on a win 7 64 bit os. Ive gotten to the cd in dos but all .exe return a "This s a windows 95 executable". How do I get past this point. There do not seem to be any .bat or .com files on the CD. Thanks-yodadog
DOSbox only plays DOS games NOT Windows games.
Either find the DOS version of the game and play it in DOSBox or play the Windows version in Windows.
To the best of my knowledge, the only windows version of this game is 95, the one i have on cd, which won't install on win 7. The readme file on the cd refers to an autoexec.bat file to use in dos, but I cant find it on the cd, so I am trying to run it thru Dosbox. IN Dosbox, when I go to execute the .exe file to start the game (or any other .exe file for that matter), it returns the message mentioned in my first post. how do I get it to execute the file and run the game?
You can't. You will need to use a virtual machine with an appropriate version of windows installed.
Some people have managed to install win 95 inside dosbox but this is definitely not for beginners.
If you are squeamish, don't prod the beach rubble.
When it comes to dos, I am a total beginner. On the Dosbox website, it lists Apache as a supported game-is Dosbox only for running dos versions of any supported games and not to run early windows versions on newer os's? And thanks to both of you for the replies!
Yes DOSBox is for DOS games.
Most early Windows games were 16bit and had a 16bit installer or were 32bit and had a 16bit installer.
Almost all 16bit Windows installers cannot be run on 64bit Windows and NO 16bitWindows programs can be run on 64bit Windows.
To run all 16bit Windows installers and programs on Windows 7 64bit you will need to install a 32bit version of Windows as a guest OS in one of the following: Virtual PC/Vmware/VirtualBox/Parallels, etc.
Depending on which edition is your Win7, you could get a free Virtual Machine with Windows XP installed from Microsoft. Apache 95 will install inside it.
yodadog dont use autorun
open the cd and double click on setup.exe
you will find apache crashes in win64 but it may (last tested in xp) work in glide mode with a wrapper
you need to patch apache to 1.2 then update it in a very specific way (dont get this bit wrong)
patch to 1.2
unzip 3dfx patch to folder
unzip common files to folder (in the readme )
run 3dfx patch
read my posts about hind here
http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3322188/2.html
3dfx patch for apache
http://dlh.net/cgi-bin/dlp.cgi?lang=eng&sys=p … 3dfx.zip&ref=ps
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you best bet is to ask someone at simhq for the other patches for apache
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