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Thread ID: 32833 2003-04-29 07:13:00 How come i cant play Liero ? its a dos game. lincoln_m (3604) Press F1
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140010 2003-04-29 07:13:00 Is there anyway to make my Windows XP run Leiro? A simple DOS game??!! Its says when i get into it, that i dont have enough 'ram'
i have 512 mb ddr !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. how annoying.
im sure it doesnt work on Windows Xp, becuase ive tried it on 3 computers, all with windows xp, and the one with windows 98SE works fine !!
lincoln_m (3604)
140011 2003-04-29 07:20:00 Win 2K and XP are not written on a DOS base, hence it's goodbye to the old DOS games. The commands in XP are small in number. Sorry. Maybe somewhere out there in Internet land, there maybe a program that will allow you, but I don't know of it. Could be someone will enlighten us :) Pheonix (280)
140012 2003-04-29 07:21:00 Windows XP does not have DOS underpinning the OS, Windows 98 does.

The program will be looking for contiguous memory under 640 k, the old DOS limit. There may be a workaround, have you tried the program running under "compatability mode"?
godfather (25)
140013 2003-04-29 09:28:00 This is one way i know how to play dos game when u are using Win XP, first create a boot disc from the win98 machine, then use it to boot into dos mode and start the game from there. (use your old dos command ;) )

However, u mite not b able to have sound when you playing, depending on your soundcard.
Blue_face (1148)
140014 2003-04-29 12:31:00 But if XP has been installed using NTFS, its unlikely to succeed using a W98 boot disk, as the HDD will be unreadable.... godfather (25)
140015 2003-04-29 12:39:00 Maybe you could have a look at FreeDOS? Never used it myself so I don't know what its like, but it might be just what you're looking for. segfault (655)
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