DOS and gaming
Posted: 3. Jul 2007, 17:58
I've installed a MS-DOS 6.0 as guest OS and every
old dos game I try to run seems to fail, because after
starting the game in the DOS console the screen gets
completely black and nothing more happens.
The only action I can do is - not surprising - reset the vm.
I've also tried FreeDOS as guest OS. Same behavior.
The game that runs normally under every circumstances, is
Wolfenstein 3D or Dynablaster and I think therefore it's a good test case. And they both don't run.
(I've tried also other games).
I tried VirtualBox as an alternative to MS VirtualPC.
In VirtualPC games often run but under VirtualPC
You never get as much free DOS RAM in the vm as in VirtualBox
and some games need every byte of it.
VirtualBox gives really good amount to an DOS OS, though I
don't really understand, why VirtualPC doesn't.
Do I make something wrong ?
As comparison in VirtualPC's vm the two games run perfectly with
everything installed exactly as in VirtualBox.
old dos game I try to run seems to fail, because after
starting the game in the DOS console the screen gets
completely black and nothing more happens.
The only action I can do is - not surprising - reset the vm.
I've also tried FreeDOS as guest OS. Same behavior.
The game that runs normally under every circumstances, is
Wolfenstein 3D or Dynablaster and I think therefore it's a good test case. And they both don't run.
(I've tried also other games).
I tried VirtualBox as an alternative to MS VirtualPC.
In VirtualPC games often run but under VirtualPC
You never get as much free DOS RAM in the vm as in VirtualBox
and some games need every byte of it.
VirtualBox gives really good amount to an DOS OS, though I
don't really understand, why VirtualPC doesn't.
Do I make something wrong ?
As comparison in VirtualPC's vm the two games run perfectly with
everything installed exactly as in VirtualBox.