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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 12:22 am
by Malcolm
A buddy of mine informed me of something today. He said some Finnish dude had designed a tiny Windows kernel that when combined w\ DosBox would allow one to run DOS games w\o too much pain.
This ring familiar to anyone?
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 8:23 am
by TheCatt
So, DOS games inside windows XP?
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 8:56 am
by Leisher
I know the technology is there because MS released Sam & Max Hit the Road for XP as a bonus for pre-ordering Armed and Dangerous. It was the exact same game as the original and worked great. They just altered it so it could run in XP.
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:05 am
by Malcolm
So, DOS games inside windows XP?
From what I understood, some dude made his own kernel that played nice w\ Windows shit. But it's only about 16K, very stripped down, but also functional. If you get that working on a machine & get DosBox on there as well, he implied DOS apps would run smoothly.
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:51 pm
by TheCatt
Guess you could do something like FreeDOS inside a Virtual PC. Though you'd still need something to slow the PC down, eh?
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:43 pm
by Malcolm
Guess you could do something like
FreeDOS inside a Virtual PC. Though you'd still need something to slow the PC down, eh?
Yea. I remember when my brother used to have Ultima 7 on his 33MHz machine. In order for it to run as intended, you needed to disable the turbo button & bring it down to 16.