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WillowIX · 02-28-2003, 11:49 AM

Ehh if they are DOS games they probably won´t work on winXP at all. XP uses win32 programs and DOS is not compatible with that. Our tech thread is great but in this case it won´t help you (W&W is a win32 program). What you can do is to get a DOS-emulator and try to run the game through that or try running the game in a RAM drive, which you "create" by booting from a win98 bootdisk. Someone posted about vmdsound which will help you with the sound; unfortunately it won´t start your game. Abandon Loader is the only DOS emulator I know of. Abandon loader

Edit: Yes a win98 partition would help, but you would need that as your primary partition.

[ 02-28-2003, 11:52 AM: Message edited by: WillowIX ]

02-28-2003, 11:49 AM	#4
WillowIX Apophis Join Date: July 10, 2001 Location: By a big blue lake, Canada Age: 51 Posts: 4,628	Ehh if they are DOS games they probably won´t work on winXP at all. XP uses win32 programs and DOS is not compatible with that. Our tech thread is great but in this case it won´t help you (W&W is a win32 program). What you can do is to get a DOS-emulator and try to run the game through that or try running the game in a RAM drive, which you "create" by booting from a win98 bootdisk. Someone posted about vmdsound which will help you with the sound; unfortunately it won´t start your game. Abandon Loader is the only DOS emulator I know of. Abandon loader Edit: Yes a win98 partition would help, but you would need that as your primary partition. [ 02-28-2003, 11:52 AM: Message edited by: WillowIX ] __________________ Confuzzled by nature.