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 Post subject: Classic Games
PostPosted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 10:37 am 
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While moving home, I came across a large selection of 5¼ & 3½ floppies. Put them to one side in new home for checking. Went through them last night & was surprised to find many were classic games like Duke Nukem, Commander Keen, Castle Wolfenstein, Doom, Hunt for Red Rock Rover (my personal favourite) as well as many more Apogee/ID Software games.

Leaving aside Virtualisation, is there any way to get these running under Vista/Win 7?

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 Post subject: Re: Classic Games
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Sirius B wrote:
While moving home, I came across a large selection of 5¼ & 3½ floppies. Put them to one side in new home for checking. Went through them last night & was surprised to find many were classic games like Duke Nukem, Commander Keen, Castle Wolfenstein, Doom, Hunt for Red Rock Rover (my personal favourite) as well as many more Apogee/ID Software games.

Leaving aside Virtualisation, is there any way to get these running under Vista/Win 7?


How do you feel about emulation? You could always try DOSBox - http://www.dosbox.com/

Edit: I'm sure you may have thought about this already, but you could also try running them in compatibility mode...

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 Post subject: Re: Classic Games
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How do you feel about emulation? You could always try DOSBox - http://www.dosbox.com/

Edit: I'm sure you may have thought about this already, but you could also try running them in compatibility mode...


Thanks. Forgot about Dosbox. Downloaded - thanks for the link.

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No problem - hope it works out for you...

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