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Re: DOS games that require windows to play?

Posted on 2025-01-27, 16:02

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Using 86box, I tested Need for Speed SE and Star Wars Tie Fighter CD on DOS 6.22. The former doesn't work with EMM386 but does work without it. The latter works with both. There are DOS games like MDK or Ignition that have updates for 3D graphics cards (3DFX) which require Windows 95. MDK and …

Re: DOS games that require windows to play?

Posted on 2025-01-27, 07:21

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feda wrote on 2025-01-27, 07:18: I can tell you that NFSSE and Tie Fighter CD work perfectly fine in Dosbox. Windows is irrelevant. Yeah it works in Dosbox. I'm not taking it for granted that Dosbox environment is identical to DOS 6.22. I'm happy to be wrong, but I need a good reason to be wrong.

Re: DOS games that require windows to play?

Posted on 2025-01-27, 07:13

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Which has me curious... what are these games that run in a pure DOS environment, but ONLY if certain windows components are also available? There are no such games. A game running in pure DOS does not care whether or not you have a Windows installation. More likely they just didn't like whatever …

DOS games that require windows to play?

Posted on 2025-01-27, 05:59

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Weird title I know. I have been messing around in 86box. On a Pentium computer with DOS 6.22 and windows 3.1 installed I ran into a few games that just refused to work. Mostly these are special edition titles of earlier DOS games. Need for Speed SE (regular version works) Star Wars Tie Fighter CD ( …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2025-01-14, 01:00

RandomStranger wrote on 2025-01-10, 21:13: The first Witcher is not overly long. My first playthrough was less than 60 hours. But The Withcer 2 was less than 40. Last week I started Morrowind GOTY. It'll last me all month. Maybe the next month too. Wonderful game. OpenMW is great if you aren't …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2025-01-07, 18:40

I recently completed the Elderscrolls Arena on DOSBOX. Every single dungeon is a multi tier literal maze. Like most passages lead to dead ends with nothing of note or interest in them. Probably spent 2 hours on each one, and the main quest is just a gauntlet of 20 dungeons back-to-back with a …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2025-01-07, 08:33

I recently completed the Elderscrolls Arena on DOSBOX. Every single dungeon is a multi tier literal maze. Like most passages lead to dead ends with nothing of note or interest in them. Probably spent 2 hours on each one, and the main quest is just a gauntlet of 20 dungeons back-to-back with a little …

Re: Core 2 Duo 775 or Pentium 4 775, which has better compatibility with Windows 98?

Posted on 2024-09-06, 15:11

It's more about chipsets than processors IMO. There are a few core2duo compatible 775 boards with AGP but they are often difficult to find and not cheap. I own one with a via chipset. It works great for XP, but I had nothing but problems in 98. My socket 468 board with an intel 965p chipset is great …

Re: Do you even need a vintage machine?

Posted on 2024-06-17, 20:04

over time i realise that almost everything that i actually run could be run on some middle of the road 'new' PC Just about all DOS applications can be run on an emulator like PCEM, that would cover windows 3.x too Any games not catered for by the above are fine on DOSBOX Just about all the windows …

Re: What vintage CPU socket saw the biggest increase in CPU horsepower from release to retirement?

Posted on 2024-02-07, 16:47

Fastest launch CPU for socket 5 was a Pentium 90. Slot 1 it was in actuality the 266 which was available to go from launch date. Socket 5 was the original socket for Pentium was it not? The first Pentium had a clock speed of 66mhz, but it was very quickly followed up by a 90mhz sku. EDIT: Nope, …

Re: What vintage CPU socket saw the biggest increase in CPU horsepower from release to retirement?

Posted on 2024-02-07, 03:31

IMO unmodified socket - fastest CPU at launch compared to fastest CPU available is the only fair way to consider it. Taking the slowest CPU a socket supports and comparing it to the fast CPU that can be hacked to work is disingenuous IMO. The problem with slot 1 and socket 370 is that the CPUs at …

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