Is there a way to get my older computer games to play on my new system?

Question

i have a lot of older dos based games that i would really like to go back and play but they wont run on my new computr windows operating system is there away to get around this and play them on my new computer or do i got to go out and find and older computr with dos still on it

Answer 1

Can you tell us what Operating System you are using? XP? Windows 2003? XP does not have DOS, so doing the command prompt as the other answer says will not work.

Check out the below article from Microsoft, which gives hints on how to get DOS games working on XP. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/games/expert/durham_og.mspx

There is also the web site dosgames.com - http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dosgames.com%2Fxphints.php&ei=kLkWRp7cOaXeggTkzunQCw&usg=__F66mRg9AqPd0TAS69dE_2cQYHuI=&sig2=jH0afVyjmoRB3BrCPyL2-g

Answer 2

What problem are you having? You can run games on alder version of windows on windows XP... Dont remember the exact location though. Useually thats not the problem though. When I tryed playing a game from the 1980s on my computer in 1998 I got the problem that you would zip thought the game at unnatural speeds, which ment you never had a chance to do anything and inside of a minute the game would be game over. In that cas there are several computer programs that will slow down yours system. If you start up a dos file in a normal windows enviroment it should start the command prompt and play from there. Ofcourse to gt the games on the new computer you need to download them or have them on a cd and make sure that if they are just on your computer that you dont have to install the game. Since if it has to be in the registry and you dont have the cd the game will never run.

Answer 3

you are able to merely seem on the motherboards specs for elements as for previous and new video games that is going off your OS which btw if its a 32 bit OS it is going to easily use 3G of RAM even nonetheless the motherboard helps 4 yet XP has whats call compatiblity mode for older courses yet we are speaking way older then what you listed.

Answer 4

I'm not sure about what I'm gonna say, but If you copy those games to a folder and run them from the command prompt windows, It may work. But as I said, I'm not sure if this is gonna work or not.
for command prompt: start > run
type: cmd and press entre
Hope this helps