Get a copy of Microsoft Virtual PC. Not very spectuacular, but easy to use and beginner-friendly. You'll also need a Windows 95 (or 98) install disc to set up an operating system on the VM.

I thought that Baldies was a DOS game?

I'd try DOSBox. It does work in Windows 7, right?

That's the odd thing. According to our entry and this thread, the copy we have is for Windows?

There is a dosversion and a windows version of Baldies.
If I remember swell:
-Dosversion is dos only.
-Windows version is Windows with dosversion included. (Same as Rayman Gold)

However, most rips of the winversion don't include the dosversion, contrary to the original.

going to try the dosbox again i will let you know if it works, im pretty sure it should work. but if i find any problems il let you know

thanks again =]

The version of this is not compatible with the version of windows you're running.
Check your computer's system information to see whether you need an x86 (32-bit) or a x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher

that comes up when i try to use the DOSbox and then run the game? it is a different game i have tryed but its a old game still il try it on baldies but whether it works im not sure.

If that shows up, you're not running it in DOSBox. It sounds like you're starting DOSBox and then trying to start the game from Windows?

now 100% how to work DOSbox, i go back into the folder and try and open it with DOSbox running in background?

or do i have to set up dosbox so that actually opens the file?

Definitively not a dosbox error message.
Means you're on Win7 64.
To set up dosbox correctly in win7 read and apply:
http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.php?t=22241
Put your baldies folder in \oldgames\ , run dosbox and do a
cd baldies
work from there.

If you get the typical dosbox error 'this is a windows executable' VPC/W9x will be your solution. ( I know for a fact that baldies win version runs fine in VPC2007/W98SE).

You could try WinXP mode for Win7, but I doubt it will run as WinXP mode doesn't like lower screen res, and if I remember swell baldies needs 640x480.

i have done all the DOSbox stuff and now after ive used cd baldies

i has come up with C:\BALDIES>

and thats all it says do i have to do something else now?

i have no idea how to use DOSbox so if theres something i have to do to enable it to work,

got this far ;) lets go all the way x