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| Thread ID: 123032 | 2012-01-29 18:26:00 | How can I play the old Doom games? | lostsoul62 (16011) | Press F1 |
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| 1256489 | 2012-01-29 18:26:00 | I haven't found a game I like in 7 years. The last one was Quake 4. I have all the Doom, Quake, Unreal etc. games that I would like to play again. I have plenty of removable hard drives and DOS 6.22 which might not even work but the oldest OS I have is ME so does anyone know how I can play these old DOS and 3.1 windows games? | lostsoul62 (16011) | ||
| 1256490 | 2012-01-29 18:34:00 | You could try dosbox. http://www.dosbox.com/ I used it a few years ago to play police quest and space quest. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 1256491 | 2012-01-29 19:18:00 | You could try dosbox. http://www.dosbox.com/ I used it a few years ago to play police quest and space quest. I'll try it on my XP computer. Doom came out 20 years ago and 3.1 windows put it in a Dos format and with a lot of configuring I got it to run so I'm hoping with the new motherboards and what not it can still run on the new computers. |
lostsoul62 (16011) | ||
| 1256492 | 2012-01-29 20:04:00 | I have Unreal which was one of the first 3D graphics games. It was a Windows 95/98 game. I also have a version which came out on a gaming mag cover disk which allowed you to play it on XP. Do a Google search and you might be able to find it. Check this site out for playing older games, here (www.gog.com). :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1256493 | 2012-01-29 20:36:00 | Doom has always been a swine when it comes to mouse recognition. Used to be downloading a custom mouse driver would do it. There's also something like DosBox, being a front-end for all the doom games. Can't recall the name however. I used to love the original Dooms. However, the graphics really is hard to tolerate when compared with modern fare now. Steam is currently charging US$9.99 for each of the Dooms, and I wouldn't trust Steam to have the mouse issue sorted either. This is not good value, as at some times of the year you can have the whole id catalogue at a much cheaper rate per title. Quake 3 was the best imo. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1256494 | 2012-01-29 20:45:00 | Ah, those were the days, best game ever for its time. Heretic was another (used modified Doom engine). Possibly still have copies of them around here somewhere. | Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1256495 | 2012-01-29 20:49:00 | Try Doomsday or ZDoom if you want to play those old Doom/Heretic/Hexen games in Windows Here's a quick tutorial (www.dosgamers.com) to set up Doomsday. |
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