![]() I’ve got descent-2 running really well on my 24 inch iMac. I should be able to run all of DOS games plus all the games written for Windows 95 and Windows 98.įor a modern computer it’s really best to go with DOS box. I’ll be limited 128 GB of hard drive space. I’m going to use a Pentium III 1000 GHz processor with an ISA sound card and a really old Matrox Millennium AGP video card. When you get to the A:> prompt, run FDISK and create a primary DOS partition on your hard drive - just press ENTER four times to take all the defaults and reboot the VM. The route I’m going is to have a separate DOS/Windows 9X box for running older games. Boot your DOS VM from the installation image you created in Step I. While this is generally doable it’s a real pain.īeyond that the game better have its own ability utilize the video card because no DOS drivers for modern video cards are available. You also have to deal with the drivers in the autoexec.bat and the config.sys files to to get access to the CD-ROM. That meant that if you can get the game running at all, the game had no sound. When people went to PCI soundcards the IRQ used for the sound card changed to something like 22. First off the older ISA sound cards and DOS games use/used IRQ (interrupt request line) channel 5 or 7 for sound. ![]() “The reason for me wanting to install DOS is due to me wanting to play King's Quest and other DOS games and not wanting to use DOSBox or Virtual PC.”Ī major reason this doesn’t come up all that often is it is nearly impossible to run DOS games on the hardware that is in a modern computer. ![]()
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