trying to play old games but can't

[xiaobao12]

hello,

i would like to play my old games (games that I played on my windows 95 system) but i'm having an awful lot of trouble. i have heard that you can right click on the main exe file and change the compatibility options to: "run this program in compatibility mode for..." but that hasn't worked.

the legitimate games i'm trying to play are: screamer 2 and mechwarrior mercenaries, if that helps any.

i am using windows xp home edition, sp2 installed.

thanks a lot.

 

[MSCoder610]

Screamer 2 looks like a DOS game, not sure about the other one... so, I would recommend DOSBox.

 

[xiaobao12]

thanks mscoder. so what does this proggy do?

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: xiaobao12
thanks mscoder. so what does this proggy do?

DOSBox is a DOS emulator for windows. It emulates a DOS environ to allow you to run DOS apps.

 

[Elcs]

Originally posted by: xiaobao12
the legitimate games i'm trying to play are: mechwarrior mercenaries, if that helps any.

Mewchwarrior 2 Mercenaries was fun but if you want to recapture the glory, Id suggest picking up Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaries (dont know it its a standalone or not though). Good game

You could set the MW2 Mercs .exe file to run in Windows 95 compatibilty mode through Win XP but in my experience, it doesnt work that often.

 

[xiaobao12]

thanks all.

so when i use the dosbox proggy, will it take full advantage of my computer and vid card? the reason why i ask is because i use to play screamer 2 on a 166mhz! and now, i want to play it on a 2.66 ghz.

 

[Cheetah8799]

I started playing some old DOS games recently as well! I just dug through our pile at work and found a couple old systems to use. 75mhz and 233mhz Pentium systems.

There is also a utility called moslo that helps with running the super duper old games that run too fast on newer processors. link

 

[xiaobao12]

hey mscoder,

i tried dosbox with screamer 2 and it didn't work. here's what i did: 1. i mounted the drive where the screamer directory was stored. then i mounted the cdrom cuz the game needs the cd. i'll type the exe file to start. but then, the dosbox window does not leave dos. it just stays there but the cdrom starts playing the music from the game. is it my vid card? i have a 5200 geforce.

thanks.