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24-08-2004, 03:01 AM | #21 | ||
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Location: Shella, Kenya
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If that doesn't work, you might just try to download Soundblaster offline, I know if you google it you should find a website that will let you get it for the new windows.
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24-08-2004, 07:31 AM | #22 | ||
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Also try booting to Dos.It might do the trick!
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24-08-2004, 07:43 AM | #23 | ||
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But then usually without the CD-drive support and eventually without sound (at least in Windows 98 and XP).
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26-09-2004, 10:44 AM | #24 | ||
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Aasane, Norway
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I actually think this is pretty usefull. My computer is old and sucks, therfore some of the games runs very slow in dosbox (Even if I raise the frameskip and CPU cycles). If I could run it in XP, it would help a lot. I haven't tried it yet, but I probably will some time.
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26-09-2004, 11:25 AM | #25 | ||
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If your PC is as old as that, you'll probably be better off installing Windows 98 instead. With it you'll have almost no problems running most old games.
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26-09-2004, 12:35 PM | #26 | ||
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I need XP for some of the other programs I'm running on the machine. And I hate Win98, not stabil enough.
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26-09-2004, 06:25 PM | #27 | ||
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Valleyfield, Canada
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For sound in XP for DOS games, you need VDMSound. It's a nice little program and I beleive DosBOX actually use it (it is mentioned in the thanks file).
I always use VDMSound, and I can count the number of games that did not work on my XP on my fingers. Most of the time when a old game doesn't want to work, the problem is directly related to sound. Most old games would not work if you setted the wrong sound settings in the setup.exe! |
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26-09-2004, 06:43 PM | #28 | ||
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01-01-2005, 08:28 AM | #29 | ||
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Well I happen to like DosBox a lot. I have a 3Ghz PC with winxp so it runs perfect. Getting dos games to run without it is too much of a hassle. Most of them I can't get sound working. I grew up with dos so I guess dosbox is just natural for me.
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01-01-2005, 09:12 AM | #30 | ||
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Valleyfield, Canada
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Please do no bring back old threads. This thread is several months old now and I was really wondering how I managed to overlook such an important thread until I noticed that I had already replyed in it in the second page... :blink:
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