ah yes thank you they are sfx archives (that's what it meant) now I just gotta figure out how to maximize the window and get in and out of it whenever I want, and do I need a win 3.1 emulator to play simearth? It tells me it requires it.

Presuming you would start with "Police Quest 1", you would unzip the files to C:\FUN\PQ\PQ1 , I don't think they are zip files though, I downloaded winzip and scanned my drive for them, they don't show up in the list of files I can unzip. the rest I understand how to do. Now you're in the actual …

Why do either of you think you can just drag icons on top of other icons and expect things to work properly? Even if it supports "drag'n'drop", you are dealing with DOS games which, with a rare few exceptions will require you to do some configuring before anything can be accomplished. You can start …

yes, I think they are the games themselves, just how do I find out what kind of files they are in XP, I thought right click and properties would tell me, apparently not.

I downloaded dosbox opened it, then downloaded police quest1 and three (which were single icons each) and dragged them onto the dosbox icon. It wouldn't put in the correct 8.3 filename they were supposed to be, so I typed it manually one was police~1 and the other was police~3, both of which it says …