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Red-Machine

It's pointless running MS-DOS on that thing, it might not even run at all.  Plus no game will work.
Red_Machine: Flouting the Windows Lifecycle Policy since 1989!

stewartsage

You can always DOS Box/FreeDOS or something on your regular computer.  Not really all that useful unless you have some old DOS games or other programs to run though.  Always wanted to have a totally FreeDOS machine.


Pitkin

I use DOSBox practically daily, as most of the games I've played recently have been DOS classics I played (or saw someone else play more often) when I was a child. ^-^ That and it's way easier to make work than Wine so I've kind of ignored the Windows-based games. ._.

stewartsage

#48
Man, I need a System 7 or 8 emulator to play my childhood games.  Hellcats in the Pacific, PT Boat, Number Munchers, Oregon Trail, Dino-something or other, Bugdom, Super Munchers, and ClarisWorks (yes, that was totally a game).

Am I the only one who always thinks of
this when seeing the topic title?

Chocofreak13

@stew: little bit. :\

i still wonder if i should play the copy of FF7 for the pc, or should i keep it mint condition......

eh, i've heard that the pc version doesn't do the game justice anyway. :\
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Aurora Borealis

I'm still able to play some of my favorite childhood games (from the System 7 era) on my G3 running OS 9.

@stew: There's Basilisk II, but I don't know how reliable it is. I've used it before a year ago or two, and it crashed a lot. It might have improved since then though.

Red-Machine

Quote from: Chocofreak13 on February 27, 2011, 11:51:06 AMi still wonder if i should play the copy of FF7 for the pc, or should i keep it mint condition......

eh, i've heard that the pc version doesn't do the game justice anyway. :\

It doesn't, especially if you don't have a 3dfx graphics card to get the enhanced 3D mode.
Red_Machine: Flouting the Windows Lifecycle Policy since 1989!

Bella

I'd need a VAX emulator and an OpenVMS license to run my favourite childhood games. D,:

svx

Man, I must be getting old!

Feels like just a few years ago that I was playing Doom, the original Warcraft, Hexen, etc with my friend over a modem...

Had Windows 3.11 on a zip disk. But it was too new and unfamiliar to me  in the early 1990s!

Chocofreak13

i managed to get one of my old games to work in compatibility mode on here, though i've yet to play it, so i'm not sure. but it installed correctly, so i think it'll be ok. :3
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NejinOniwa

Speaking of compatibility, Total Annihilation runs in normal mode too, but it's a LOT better in 98 mode. WINNAGE WAS HA(R)D, dat AI is seriouse shit.
YOU COULD HAVE PREVENTED THIS

Chocofreak13

should try out mindmaze one of these days....
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Raffaele the Amigan

#57
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.

Atari computers on fire running for entire weeks Orion videogames.
I watched C=Amiga CRT-TV beams blitter circuitry plasma effects in the dark, and I installed and played with Minix near the Tannembaum-Torvalds Debate.

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

Time to running Windows again.
Pegasos computer: CPU PPC G3 600MHz, RAM DDR 512 MB PC3200, Graphic Card ATI 9250 256 MB videoram. SO MorphOS 1.4.5
;011 -(Caramba! El nuevo Peggy computador es Amiga compatible y muy Mejor!)
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(R.J. Mical, engineer of original Amiga developing team at Amiga Inc. 1982-1985).
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"When the Amiga came out, everyone [at Apple] was scared as hell."
(Jean-Lous Gassée, former CEO of Apple France and chief of developers of Mac II-fx, interviewed by Amazing Computing, November 1996).
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Chocofreak13

that sounds too epic for words.

oh, and when i read the first part, i thought you LITERATELY meant on fire. o___o;
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Raffaele the Amigan

Quote from: Chocofreak13 on March 07, 2011, 12:42:43 AM
that sounds too epic for words.

oh, and when i read the first part, i thought you LITERATELY meant on fire. o___o;

Who said it didn't? (snicker)  ::)
Pegasos computer: CPU PPC G3 600MHz, RAM DDR 512 MB PC3200, Graphic Card ATI 9250 256 MB videoram. SO MorphOS 1.4.5
;011 -(Caramba! El nuevo Peggy computador es Amiga compatible y muy Mejor!)
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"God, what an incredible thing we did!"
(R.J. Mical, engineer of original Amiga developing team at Amiga Inc. 1982-1985).
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"When the Amiga came out, everyone [at Apple] was scared as hell."
(Jean-Lous Gassée, former CEO of Apple France and chief of developers of Mac II-fx, interviewed by Amazing Computing, November 1996).
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