Looking for program that allows you to play old dos games on windows...

[platinumike]

my bro found this one http://www.scummvm.org/ but i dunno, with a name like scumm it sounds kinda shady, this is probably for the old lucasarts games like sam and max and monkey island, ya'll have any good suggestions? thanks.

 

[imported_michealo]

dosbox

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: michealo
dosbox

link for teh laxy

 

[akubi]

scummvm is not shady... it's been popular for years. and the name scumm comes directly from the original engine name used by sierra (or lucasarts, whatever)

 

[Stern]

will this work for transport tycoon. I really wanna play that game again...

 

[mryellow2]

dosbox has worked for every old game that I've thrown at it.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Set up a dual boot system.

Avoids the overhead of having to run through Windows.

 

[funkapimpalicious]

dosBox. without question. If you're really hardcore, you can pickup an old 486 system and run a dedicated old-timey gaming system! w00t!

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/

 

[Stern]

i already have a 486 system, was looking to run all games on one comp though

 

[Gurck]

:thumbsup: for Dosbox. Btw anyone get Doom 1/2 going on it? Runs choppy for me :\

 

[Noema]

Originally posted by: Gurck
:thumbsup: for Dosbox. Btw anyone get Doom 1/2 going on it? Runs choppy for me :\

Have you tried augmenting the CPU cycles in the console, Gurk? You can do it by pressing ctrl+F12 (to increase CPU cycles) or ctrl+F11 to decrease them.

 

[Gurck]

Originally posted by: Noema

Originally posted by: Gurck
:thumbsup: for Dosbox. Btw anyone get Doom 1/2 going on it? Runs choppy for me :\

Have you tried augmenting the CPU cycles in the console, Gurk? You can do it by pressing ctrl+F12 (to increase CPU cycles) or ctrl+F11 to decrease them.

Worsk great, thanks

 

[xgsound]

The SCUMM program is excellent, but is not for all dos games.

The folder with SCUMM and about 6 of the Lucas Arts games I've been saving for years is only about 800 MB.

SCUMM starts up with an index of games (after setup) , is easy to use , and works great.

Dosbox is the one for general dos games, but all I use that for so far is Carmen San Diego.
It works very well , this on a 700Mhz Athlon


Jim