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[Poll] Do you still have/play DOS games?
4/19/08 9:15am
The only DOS game I remember having is Warcraft 1. I still have it but have not played it for years. Too bad, because I never finished it.
What about you guys?
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RE: [Poll] Do you still have/play DOS games?
4/19/08 9:43am
Now? No, I don't know if they would even work in Vista.
But over the years I have enjoyed dozens, if not hundreds of DOS games.
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RE: [Poll] Do you still have/play DOS games?
4/19/08 11:48am
Sam and Max Hit The Road, Day of the Tentacle and Doom, all on DS.
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RE: [Poll] Do you still have/play DOS games?
4/19/08 1:22pm
I've got Day of the Tentacle, the early Monkey Islands, Sam and Max Hit the Road all nicely running on an emulator. I used to have the original Little Big Adventure and a couple of random platformers but I think I've deleted them by now.
Haven't really played any of them for a while though.
However when I do eventually get a PC with Vista I'm going to make a point of keeping a partition with XP installed for running old games, my friend said he couldn't even run many Windows games like AvP 2 so I guess there's little hope for those or DOS unless I keep a version of XP around.
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RE: [Poll] Do you still have/play DOS games?
4/19/08 4:08pm
You need an emulator to run them on XP? Warcraft just runs by itself.
I will try it on Vista. But I have been on XP for weeks now. I like Vista better, but all my stuff is on XP and I don't want to bring it on Vista because it will pile it with crap like it did to XP. Nice little paradox there.
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4/19/08 4:31pm
I've certainly needed one for all the old adventure games. I guess some things would run without one - compatibility is pretty hit and miss; though mostly everything works eventually.
Except for Outcast (which is actually a Windows game) where the screen goes off to the right and down a bit so you can't see half of it and there's no apparent way to fix it. If someone ever found out a way and told me I'd definitely owe them a good old GSPC cookie!
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4/19/08 6:44pm
HAHA! Yes I have played DOS games recently actually. In Computer Programming Class, I was just messing around so I downloaded a game made in QuickBasic and just started playing.
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RE: [Poll] Do you still have/play DOS games?
4/19/08 8:31pm
Yes, ScummVm and the old Lucasarts adventure games.
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RE: [Poll] Do you still have/play DOS games?
4/20/08 6:32pm
Just recently I was playing the DOS version of Syndicate. I had to use the Dos Box emulator to get it working, but once I figured it out, it has worked wonderfully.
I also managed to get my old copy of Budokan working. I sadly can't remember the controls nor find the manual, though.
Note: I am running all of this on Vista.
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RE: [Poll] Do you still have/play DOS games?
4/21/08 1:56am
I used to play a bit of Death Rally back when we still had an old PC running Windows 98 out the back. With that literally gutted (and a new PC in its place) I haven't really bothered trying to get any DOS games to run anymore. A few years ago I was obsessed with them though.
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RE: [Poll] Do you still have/play DOS games?
5/6/08 4:36am
What the hell is with all the spam lately?
And besides, how much is 5 million rupees? Like $1000?
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He posted in 22 places before I got him this time (yes, I have banned an account spamming that site before).
Unfortunately most of his posts are outside my areas of effectiveness.
And then I find another user with 49 more spam posts...
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RE: [Poll] Do you still have/play DOS games?
5/6/08 5:37am
Spammers are always fun to smack around
Anyway I recently played a DOS game called Raptor found on www.dosgames.com
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RE: [Poll] Do you still have/play DOS games?
5/12/08 1:41am
I still
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a bunch of DOS games, back at my parent's house. Descent, Jazz The Jackrabbit, Terminal Velocity, etc. but I haven't run them since the 2000 update.
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