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Subject: Re: NEW computer that can play OLD Dos games

Author: Matt Taylor

Date: 19:27:45 02/07/03

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On February 06, 2003 at 10:14:55, a.g.turetschek wrote:

>hi,
>    could somebody please advice me what kind of operating system i have
>to buy - i heard that WIN XP wont run DOS programs anymore - to be able
>to use all my old dos-programs?? thank you.

Well, I run XP Professional on my home desktop, and I can run old DOS tools of
mine just fine. With VDMSound, I can also play old DOS games. (I have not
encountered one that I haven't been able to play, but I'm sure it doesn't work
with everything.)

Emulators are a more complete solution; others have listed a number of good
ones. However, until you actually try XP and find out that your software is
broken, it is not worth investing even 5 minutes in an emulator. A lot of stuff
works as-is. Download VDMSound from sourceforge to get sound support.

-Matt



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