win xp's dos support is crap, so I can hardly play any old games, even with vdmsound or dosbox.is there any way to have the proper dos mode?perhaps have 2 operating systems, the other being win 95 (which had proper dos support)? Or should I just look for a bog standard PC to run those oldies on?
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I always had more joy with VDMS. There is no proper DOS in XP, it's just emulated cos it's built on the NT core. Your best and easiest bet is to just make a DOS boot disk, and make sure you have a fat32 drive so you don't have to mess around trying to get NTFS working. It'll be like the good old days? with messing about with autoexec.bat and config.sys and trying to free up that magical 600k+
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i downloaded some soundblaster live dos drivers and did the necessary installation of drivers, and also put the files himem.sys and emm386.exe where they are supposed to be, but there comes an error message saying "extended memory management already installed, XMS will not be installed". And so I get no sound. the sblive dos drivers require these lines be included in the autoexec.bat:
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330
SET CTSYN=C:\DOSDRV
C:\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM
C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE
and these lines in the config.sys
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS NOVCPI
DOS=HIGH,UMB
So my autoexec.bat is:
mode con codepage prepare=((850) ega.cpi)
mode con codepage select=850
keyb uk,,keybrd2.sys
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330
SET CTSYN=C:\DOSDRV
C:\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM
C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE
LH C:\windows\command\mscdex.exe /D:MSCD0001
LH C:\mouse\mouse.exe
and config.sys is
device=display.sys con=(ega,,1)
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS NOVCPI
DOS=HIGH,UMB
And why is the CDROM drive not being initialized?
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