DOS Emulator for a WinXP machine

71-1085092892 · Post by **71-1085092892** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 1:06 pm

Anyone know of any that are free, functional, and easy to use? I DL'd a couple of them from sourceforge, but they came sans documentation, and sans intuitive interface. Couldn't figger out how to make them work.

Anyone?

Bueller?

Post by **thibodeaux** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 1:16 pm

DOS emulator? CMD.EXE ain't good enough?

71-1085092892 · Post by **71-1085092892** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 4:33 pm

Negative... the old games look for dos-specific environment things like "extended memory." WinXP did away with a lot of that stuff.

Post by **TheCatt** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 6:24 pm

DOS boot floppy is probably the easiest.

Post by **TheCatt** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 6:24 pm

Although. Have you tried VMWare?

71-1085092892 · Post by **71-1085092892** » Sun Sep 05, 2004 6:27 pm

TheCatt wrote:Although. Have you tried VMWare?

No... I'll google that.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 6:33 pm

I have a dual boot system at home, with 98SE & XP Pro. You might consider doing something like that. I've never messed with DOS emulators (I've never had to).

I've set up a few dual boot systems. I always make a small Fat32 (6 gig or so) partition, and install 98 to it. Then I boot to the XP CD install that to a partition I configure during the startup process. Any free space can be partitioned later in XP.

That Ultimate Boot CD posted awhile back had DOS emulators I think. I could be wrong on that though.

71-1085092892 · Post by **71-1085092892** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 7:37 pm

Does Microsoft still patch Win98?

mbilderback · Post by **mbilderback** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 11:13 am

No, Microsoft stopped patching 98 when ME came out, and ME when 2000 came out.

The reason you need dos emulators over cmd.exe is because of games requiring large amounts of conventional memory, EMS/XMS, or it uses Dos4GW (a lot of games loved this.). I have similar problems. I tried some dos emulators, didn't go over so well. Need to keep trying.

Dos boot disks aren't usefull if you have a purely NTFS drive. And if you single boot to XP or 2k, you should use NTFS.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 5:32 pm

GORDON wrote:Does Microsoft still patch Win98?

No, but I never use Win98 for Internet purposes. As long as you stay offline it shouldn't matter too much.

Now that I think about it, Windows 98 can't see the NTFS partitions I use with XP. So even if I did get hit with a virus, trojan, or malware, it shouldn't affect my XP operating system or the partitions I use to store files. 98 can only hurt whatever I put in that FAT32 partition.

The main reason I have a dual boot system is because of my old scanner (which I very rarely use anyway). It isn't compatable with XP. In fact, if you follow the manufacturers unofficial directions about installing with XP, it buttf*cks my system so that no CDROMs show up. I spent many many hours trying to fix that the first time before giving up and re-doing the system. Later I tried again... same results.

Also, like you, I figure that if I want to play my old games I'll run them off 98.

Post by **thibodeaux** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 6:02 pm

My 98 box has no problem seeing NTFS partitions.

Post by **Cakedaddy** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 8:51 pm

thibodeaux wrote:My 98 box has no problem seeing NTFS partitions.

It just can't read any of the files!!

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Post by **thibodeaux** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 9:27 pm

Yes it can.

Post by **Cakedaddy** » Wed Sep 15, 2004 11:44 pm

No it can't.

Post by **TheCatt** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 8:38 am

Do you use a special utility, Thib?

Post by **thibodeaux** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 9:51 am

No, just file sharing. I think I misunderstood what Paul was saying; I guess he was talking about a dual-boot box.

mbilderback · Post by **mbilderback** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 12:24 pm

thibodeaux wrote:No, just file sharing. I think I misunderstood what Paul was saying; I guess he was talking about a dual-boot box.

Right, if you are trying to see files across a network from a 98 to an NTFS partition you aren't actually reading NTFS. What it does is use NFS (Network File System) from the one machine to the other. 98 has no ability to read or write to NTFS drives, it sees them as Non-Dos. A third party utility might allow it, but I've never used one.

Post by **thibodeaux** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 1:42 pm

Yes, yes, I know that. I just didn't get what Paul was saying at first. Dammit, my wife just had a baby!

71-1085092892 · Post by **71-1085092892** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 1:51 pm

Post by **TheCatt** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 4:29 pm

thibodeaux wrote:Yes, yes, I know that. I just didn't get what Paul was saying at first. Dammit, my wife just had a baby!

Vandy called, they want the Dr. back.