Comments on: How To Play DOS Games Under Windows XP

By: Troy Holman

Troy Holman — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:32:29 +0000

Tried this for MY favorite old-time game: Microprose Redstorm Rising, circa 1988. Works great! Thanks for the help. Only one silly question: I realise it’s called DOSBOX, but is there anyway to maximize the game window? It wants to play in a small window in the cemter of the screen, with the maximize box grayed out, and no ability to drag the sides larger. Would like it full screen, like on old ’95 set. Thanks for the help, again! TH

By: Sharninder

Sharninder — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:14:11 +0000

If you can tell what problem you're facing exactly, someone around here might be able to help you. DOS games were pretty notorious for using undocumented hooks and stuff to get things working and if chips challenge is using something like that, there is a big chance that the dosbox guys simply haven't implemented it. You might want to take a look at Virtualbox if you're looking at real virtualisation and run a full fledged DOS system over your existing windows machine.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:16:07 +0000

It is still not working. I’m trying to play Chips Challenge. Gahh! Help?

By: Grundig

Grundig — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:40:39 +0000

You can laso try some good abandonware site like where you can play games directly.

By: games

games — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:03:42 +0000

All the animation are just great, it very cool game try it

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:52:41 +0000

I’m still running my favorite DOS-based Mahjjong game on XP/SP2 using a PIF file copied from the WIN98 machine. But, there’s no sound involved in the game. Perhaps DOSBox is needed to activate sound.

By: jacksonbms

jacksonbms — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 10:35:44 +0000

By the way, there is a version of Digger for Xp. It’s called Digger XP.

By: Sharninder

Sharninder — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 05:39:59 +0000

Yes Doc. I should have made this clearer. Win NT, 2000 were Microsoft’s server operating systems and were built on the NT kernel and weren’t based on DOS. cmd.exe is also basically a DOS terminal emulator.
Windows XP was based on the NT kernel and so shares many of the characteristics of Win NT and 2000 including a penchant for *disliking* old time DOS games

By: Sharninder

Sharninder — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 05:34:46 +0000

Thanks for the Mac tip Ammon.

By: Sharninder

Sharninder — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 05:34:11 +0000

viva la command line indeed !

The set blaster command worked for me out of the box. Try using the latest version of dosbox and see if that works for you. dosbox as an opensource software, is pretty active and the latest version might work for you, or the community might be able to help you with your specific problem.

That said, virtualization and emulation is tricky business. Games and drivers under DOS had to resort to a lot of trickery and that might not work for an emulator to emulate. So, some games will still give problems though a majority of programs will work.