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Re: DOS games and Windows 3.11

Posted on 2018-12-19, 15:58

Today i tried Norton Commander 5.0 1995 version, which helped me run all games exe i wanted before. All games runs fine, setup.exe, game lunch.exe. So now i understand why in all youtube videos people just using DOS & types commands over there. But when i was a kid, my mom took me to her work, it …

Re: DOS games and Windows 3.11

Posted on 2018-12-18, 22:57

Ok) Now I clear up my mind, because I’m f course I felt much more comfortable in Win9X and XP GI, but all off you just help me to realize, that my thoughts were mistakeble. Ok now my lazy fingers will type all commands in DOS, and Windows will be using for file management only. My mind just still …

Re: DOS games and Windows 3.11

Posted on 2018-12-18, 21:47

All this information is not cheerful at all. So all Windows 1/2/3 GUI's was nothing? Why Microsoft made them? For office software and other programs that benefited from a graphical interface. However, even back in the day it was way too unstable to run DOS games from (and why would you? DOS was …

Re: DOS games and Windows 3.11

Posted on 2018-12-17, 19:34

I tried Norton Commander. But some games are starting, some not. About Win 9x. If i understand correctly, the all using DOS kernel. Windows 95 RTM MS-DOS 7.0 FAT 16 Windows 95 OSR 1 MS-DOS 7.0 FAT 16 Windows 95 OSR 2 MS-DOS 7.1 FAT 32 Windows 95 OSR 2.1 MS-DOS 7.1 FAT 32 Windows 95 OSR 2.5 MS-DOS …

Re: DOS games and Windows 3.11

Posted on 2018-12-17, 19:32

The best solution you're going to get is to either have to put the time in to re-learn or learn DOS basics or just install win9x. There are too many reasons why windows 3.11 won't just exit and run any old DOS game. Windows 95 and 98 were far advanced in that avenue and did things like guaranteeing …

Re: DOS games and Windows 3.11

Posted on 2018-12-17, 19:00

I tried Norton Commander. But some games are starting, some not. About Win 9x. If i understand correctly, the all using DOS kernel. Windows 95 RTM MS-DOS 7.0 FAT 16 Windows 95 OSR 1 MS-DOS 7.0 FAT 16 Windows 95 OSR 2 MS-DOS 7.1 FAT 32 Windows 95 OSR 2.1 MS-DOS 7.1 FAT 32 Windows 95 OSR 2.5 MS-DOS …

Re: DOS games and Windows 3.11

Posted on 2018-12-17, 18:43

You can use a GUI menu systems for launching DOS programs and that's what you should be using anyway. What exactly are you talking about? Windows 3.11? Because that how i can't use it, as a GUI for lunching my DOS games, without typing commands in DOS. I want to understand, can i start games from …

Re: DOS games and Windows 3.11

Posted on 2018-12-17, 18:38

Greetings everyone. I have an issue, which i never faced before. DOS games running from Windows 3.11. DOS for me is something very far away. So i want to use GUI, because i don't like typing commands. Games that starts from Windows for example: Duke Nukem(1991) Wolfenstein 3D(1992) Games that …

DOS games and Windows 3.11

Posted on 2018-12-17, 18:14

Greetings everyone. I have an issue, which i never faced before. DOS games running from Windows 3.11. DOS for me is something very far away. So i want to use GUI, because i don't like typing commands. Games that starts from Windows for example: Duke Nukem(1991) Wolfenstein 3D(1992) Games that …

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