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why won't dos wok

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First post, by abyss

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I am more limited than i originally thought i was at playing dos games. Windows 95 runs perfectly and has so for years. The problem is dos only works good enough to run windows and that's it. If i enter msdos prompt the window pops up then tells me wrong dos version number and closes and when i go to pure dos the computer says wrong dos version number and freezes. soundcards broken, cd rom drive won't work. the 100 mhz pentium can still play jazz jack rabbit under windows perfectly. Years ago programs like hoyle board games and hoyle card games were installed and those don't require cd roms. Good thing best of microsoft entertainment pack doesnot need cd roms. jazz jackrabbit does not need cd roms and is the episodes 2-4 pack. With the demo version that's episodes 1-4. Any game installed on the computer were installed years ago.

Reply 1 of 6, by wd

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Still cool that it can run jazz jackrabbit!

Reply 2 of 6, by Davros

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(im guessing something in config.sys or autoexec.bat doesnt like dos 7.0)
can you post the contents of those 2 files....

in win95 are you selecting restart in msdos mode ?

ps: in dos type ver
tell us what version it reports

or in control panel you can create a msdos boot disk try making one and booting from it

Reply 3 of 6, by abyss

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I use the restart to dos feature to go to pure dos. Dos 7.0 is the dos version. It gives me incorrect dos version number error and locks up when i go to pure dos. Tried it all but pure dos does not work. I am absolutely surprised windows 95 is working though. With the dos problems i would not expect windows to work.

Reply 4 of 6, by Davros

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can you post the contents of your config.sys and autoexec.bat

Reply 5 of 6, by Xian97

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You used to be able to run the setver command to report a different version that what was really installed. You had to add it to the config.sys. I can't remember if Windows 95 DOS had it or not though.
DEVICE=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE
That's what I used in my old DOS config.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/96767

Reply 6 of 6, by abyss

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Thank you that would fix my problem greatly. I checked and the wrong dos version was being reported. That fixes the dos problem.