Re: Building a box for old games

"NightSky 421" <nightsky421@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>"Tim O" <timo56@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:l3kos1hs3fc7clokbkhuviq7q5tsp4r5fb@xxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Are there any good forums for retro game PC's?
>> I have a P3/933 along with a closet full of old hardware. I was
>> thinking about building a Win98 machine with the combo of a TNT2 and
>> Voodoo 2 for some old stuff like Mechwarrior Titanium, Crusader and
>> early 3D DOS games. I have a ton of old games and hardware, but all
>> the info I seem to find is about getting the abandonware games, not
>> actually finding a resource for old drivers, etc.
>
>
>Good question, but to add to this, I also have an older box around for the
>DOS and early Windows 95/98 classics and I was lucky to still have a Sound
>Blaster 16 Vibra ISA sound card. The drivers for it do not take any
>conventional memory when booting into MS-DOS mode. I can also have my mouse
>(Genius mouse driver 9.10 or something) and CD-ROM drivers loaded and still
>have about 616K free conventional memory. I was quite happy with that.
>However, I might check out DOSbox for Windows XP since PC Gamer magazine has
>a feature on it near the back of the magazine in the February issue that
>lays things out in plain English. My only question is about actually
>INSTALLING a game for use in DOSbox. Does the Command Prompt actually work
>for installing DOS stuff to drive C: or wherever?

When you start up DosBox you have to mount directories as virtual
drives. You can just mount c:\ as c: drive if you want. You have to
mount CD and floppy drives too. Then it's just like a DOS PC with the
virtual drives you have mounted and the hardware emulation you have
configured in dosbox.conf.
So yes, once you mount a c: drive and the CD/floppy drive you can
install games just using DosBox.
.

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