elaborate on this win98 DOS mode... how did you get to there? are you running DOS inside win98? or are you pushing F8 during bootup to reach native DOS?

if its during win98 then i doubt you need any.

Start\Turn Off Computer\Restart in MS DOS Mode

😜

That's the one I'm talking about but there is no cd rom drive.Only floppy and hard drive.

First, you need to have CD ROM driver for DOS, which could be hardware-dependent (although I think Oak CD ROM driver will work for every CD drives --it is pretty much universal). You can download an oak CD driver on this page, then you should put it in your CONFIG.SYS like this:

1[config.sys]
2DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
3DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001
4LASTDRIVE=F

And then you need MSCDEX.EXE, which should be put in AUTOEXEC.BAT like this:

1[autoexec.bat]
2
3LH C:\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscd001 /l:D

EDIT: here's the link to download Oak CD ROM driver.

Hmmm thanks I will try it.

Edit...

It's not working.

F2bnp wrote:

Hmmm thanks I will try it.

Edit...

It's not working.

Have you copy them to your hard drive, and edited your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT accordingly?

Of course!I put them on C:\DOS

F2bnp wrote:

Of course!I put them on C:\DOS

Wait, wait. Both CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT should be put on C:\ instead of C:\DOS.

Actually, there are a couple of alternatives to the Oak Technologies driver that take up less RAM.
http://www.mdgx.com/newtip1.htm#CDROM4

Some of them can be used with DRVLOAD or CTLOAD (or a similar utility) that allows them to be loaded from autoexec.bat instead of config.sys.
http://www.mdgx.com/dos.htm

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

F2bnp wrote:

Of course!I put them on C:\DOS

Wait, wait. Both CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT should be put on C:\ instead of C:\DOS.

Of course 🤣 😜
Don't think I'm a noob or smth.

Jorpho thanks for the links!They might come in handy.Will try them out tommorow.

If you use the additions for VPC 2004, IIRC they include the DOS drivers that you need.

Have fun setting up DOS in VPC and ignoring DOSBox.

DosFreak you might be right.But Dosbox isn't pure DOS,it's emulation.Having pure DOS on a PC is much better.

Dosbox isn't pure DOS,it's emulation.Having pure DOS on a PC is much better.

Hmm, I thought this was about running it on VirtualPC...

F2bnp wrote:

DosFreak you might be right.But Dosbox isn't pure DOS,it's emulation.Having pure DOS on a PC is much better.

Provided you have all the necessary hardware, of course, and sufficiently low speed.

F2bnp wrote:

Having pure DOS on a PC is much better.

Except I can run more games in DOSBox than I ever could on a single real PC with DOS. DOSBox is like having several different PCs with DOS/Win3x.

I guess you're right.Don't get me wrong, I love Dosbox (:P) but ok I thought running virtual pc would give me full speed.Seems like I will have to bring back my 166 mhz.

If you need full speed, you're maybe better off with vmware anyways.
But full speed is, as already noted in this thread, not what you want
for dos games most of the time.

and DosBox is actually faster for DOS games than VPC/Vmware anyways. 😀

Speaking about full speed, how about VDMS?

yeah, more speed with VPC, full speed with VDMS and most compatibility with Dosgames Dosbox.
It's that easy. If you want to play games choose Dosbox. Really. VDMS is severly impacted by Windows' dos prompt. VPC is crap regarding games...