Originally posted by darkhawk30 I'm trying to run IBM's Quest for Fame (circa 1995) on my Windows XP system. Someone recommended Dosbox to me, but I have absolutely no idea what it does, how it operates or whatnot. I don't know if any of you folks have had experience with this game, but it's the one that you use a Virtual Pick with.
Ow. This may be a hard one. The pick connects though the Parallel port and I'm not sure if it can be made to work properly with OS like XP since it locks out direct hardware access (for the most part).
Windows Compatibility Wizard doesn't work, because during the installation I get a "You do not have Dos 6.2" message and then the installation quits out.
There's another knock against it. Even if you used DosBox it would likely report that as DOS 5.
Originally posted by darkhawk30 Plus, I don't mean to be rude, but isn't that what this forum is all about? People helping people?
Sorry if it sounds a little unfriendly, but we're kind of short-handed lately and the # posts to deal with has skyrocketed lately.
We've discussed such guides before, but the major problems seem to be taking the time to type it up (properly, with organization, labels, etc...) and at what "level" should it be written: average PC-user with DOS experience? average PC user with no DOS experience? computer-user in general? computer-user who can only do things with pop-up windows that tell them what to do?
If we write it for the first group, it will be short, sweet, and to-the-point and easy to update, but harder for the 2nd group, and bewildering to the last two groups.
If we write it for the last group, it will work for them...but it will be a long droning text that reads like a dry novel and will irritate the 3rd group, and infuriate the first two groups as they hunt for relevant data amongst all the explanations of things they already know.
Fortunately, I think I can whip up a DosBox page relatively quickly for basic operation...if I can just get caught up on post responses...
If we all knew everything instinctively, there wouldn't be a need for this forum at all, now would there?
Well, we do ask that you put keywords from your question into the Quick Search box before you start up a new thread. In your case, that would be DOSBOX QUEST FAME. Since there was only one post about it and it wasn't dealing with XP, you would still have started a new thread.
Originally posted by darkhawk30 While in XP, using compatibility modes and all that, the game's installation tells me I need Dos 6.2 or greater. Ok fine.
I mount drives c and e using the commands above and try to run setup.exe from my e drive (cd-rom). The only thing that pops up is "This game requires Microsoft Windows."
Oh lovely...
Since I don't have it, I can only guess that it must be using some kind of hybrid executable like "Spycraft". If that's the case, I don't think it would be possible to run without using a PC emulator running Windows (like "Virtual PC").
This sounds like a candidate for a dual-boot setup.