Any body like old DOS games?

Blipadouzi · Post by **Blipadouzi** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 7:42 pm

I mostly use emulators to play all my nostalgic games...

I have a DOS emulator,
a console emulator (Nintendo, Sega, N64....)
And an arcade emulator.

Got more than my fill of old games...and I love it.

rickyderocher · Post by **rickyderocher** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:36 am

I've been playing all kinds of old DOS games for the past week. $\:D/$

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Monkey Island, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Martian Memorandum, King's Quest, King's Quest 2, Laura Bow 2, and others.

I love old adventure games!

Pseudonym · Post by **Pseudonym** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:40 am

rickyderocher wrote:I've been playing all kinds of old DOS games for the past week. $\:D/$

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

I love that game! I just started replaying it a few days ago. Ah, punching Nazis never gets old. $\:D/$

I also played through some of the Commander Keen games. Those were the days...

Over the Rainbow · Post by **Over the Rainbow** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:49 am

Golly Gee Whilikers!! Pseu posted! $\:D/$

rickyderocher · Post by **rickyderocher** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 12:28 pm

Pseudonym wrote:
rickyderocher wrote:I've been playing all kinds of old DOS games for the past week. $\:D/$

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
I love that game! I just started replaying it a few days ago. Ah, punching Nazis never gets old. $\:D/$

I also played through some of the Commander Keen games. Those were the days...

The "sucker punch" option is fun, press the Insert key, and POW! The Nazi is out cold.

INDY + DOS + GAME = FUN!!!! $\:D/$

Amethystic · Post by **Amethystic** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:41 pm

I used to be in love with Carmen Sandiago video games! She was my anti-hero! My friends and I used to play Carmen Sandiago in the playground (I always got to be Carmen of course) and I dressed up as her once for a school costume day! Plus I have owned and/or completed almost all of them. The ones I have would be complete, except their not Vista or XP compatible.

rickyderocher · Post by **rickyderocher** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:11 pm

Amethystic wrote:I used to be in love with Carmen Sandiago video games! She was my anti-hero! My friends and I used to play Carmen Sandiago in the playground (I always got to be Carmen of course) and I dressed up as her once for a school costume day! Plus I have owned and/or completed almost all of them. The ones I have would be complete, except their not Vista or XP compatible.

Use DOSBOX, the free DOS emulator to play all your old DOS games, including Carmen Sandiego! $\:D/$

http://www.dosbox.com/

Amethystic · Post by **Amethystic** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:30 pm

rickyderocher wrote:
Amethystic wrote:I used to be in love with Carmen Sandiago video games! She was my anti-hero! My friends and I used to play Carmen Sandiago in the playground (I always got to be Carmen of course) and I dressed up as her once for a school costume day! Plus I have owned and/or completed almost all of them. The ones I have would be complete, except their not Vista or XP compatible.
Use DOSBOX, the free DOS emulator to play all your old DOS games, including Carmen Sandiego! $\:D/$

http://www.dosbox.com/

How do you download it?

rickyderocher · Post by **rickyderocher** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:38 pm

Amethystic wrote:
rickyderocher wrote:
Amethystic wrote:I used to be in love with Carmen Sandiago video games! She was my anti-hero! My friends and I used to play Carmen Sandiago in the playground (I always got to be Carmen of course) and I dressed up as her once for a school costume day! Plus I have owned and/or completed almost all of them. The ones I have would be complete, except their not Vista or XP compatible.
Use DOSBOX, the free DOS emulator to play all your old DOS games, including Carmen Sandiego! $\:D/$

http://www.dosbox.com/
How do you download it?

Go here and click on "Windows".

http://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1

You might get one of those "blocked downloaded because it might not be safe" thingies. It's safe, so just let it download.

You might want to grab one of the front ends for dosbox too, you can download one on the same page as you downloaded dosbox itself.

If you have any questions about Dosbox, feel free to ask, as I officially delcare myself the officiall Grand Dosbox Master of the Too.

Amethystic · Post by **Amethystic** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:41 pm

Thanks! Maybe now I can finish "Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiago?", which will be interesting, considering I am Canadian...

rickyderocher · Post by **rickyderocher** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:43 pm

Amethystic wrote:Thanks! Maybe now I can finish "Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiago?", which will be interesting, considering I am Canadian...

Cool.

Maybe Broderbund should have released a "Where In Canada is Carmen Sandiego?"

Amethystic · Post by **Amethystic** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:46 pm

Ha-ha. Ugh, it still won't work! Maybe I should dig up our old computer that has Windows 2000 or something on it...

rickyderocher · Post by **rickyderocher** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:51 pm

Amethystic wrote:Ha-ha. Ugh, it still won't work! Maybe I should dig up our old computer that has Windows 2000 or something on it...

You mean downloading?

I just sent you an email with DOSBOX as an attachment. Hope that helps.

Amethystic · Post by **Amethystic** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:52 pm

No, it downloaded fine. The game just doesn't want to work on my computer!!!

rickyderocher · Post by **rickyderocher** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:55 pm

Amethystic wrote:No, it downloaded fine. The game just doesn't want to work on my computer!!!

Are you running the game inside of DOSBOX?

Amethystic · Post by **Amethystic** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:56 pm

Uh... I don't think so. I'll try that.

rickyderocher · Post by **rickyderocher** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:03 pm

Amethystic wrote:Uh... I don't think so. I'll try that.

Ok. What version of "Carmen Sandiego USA" is it? Is it on CDROM or is it the older one that came on floppy disks?

Amethystic · Post by **Amethystic** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:04 pm

CD-Rom. And I am so in the dark about DOS.

rickyderocher · Post by **rickyderocher** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:09 pm

Amethystic wrote:CD-Rom. And I am so in the dark about DOS.

I think it's the "deluxe" versoin then?

I'll try to help you out getting running.

First are you able to start DOSBOX up, ok? It should give you a DOS looking text screen.

Amethystic · Post by **Amethystic** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:09 pm

Yup. There's two boxes, the main one and the status box.