DOS Sesh in XP

[jaytee368]

Please be gentle with me.
I suppose you could say my level of competence is "knows enough to be dangerous", but not much higher.

I have a game that I used love playing, Command & Conquer. Feeling nostalgic I would like to install and run it on my 2 year old Tosh laptop.

The copy I have used to run fine in Windows 95 (and 98 IIRC).

So, is it relatively simple to open and maintain a DOS session in XP SP2 so I can install and run this game?
TIA :thumbup:

PS. I did try the standard Start, Run, cmd, but that didn't work cos I assume it's not a true "DOS prompt window/session".

[Alex]

AFAIK, it won't work because XP "DOS" is not really DOS at all.

[robdickinson]

You may be able to get it running with some of the compatability options.

Google C&C and windows XP, should bring back something. Tho not all games will work, I have several that wont anymore.

[TheExcession]

Try DOS Box http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1

I manged to get a few old games running well using this.

best
Ex

[docevi1]

www.megagames.com/news/html/patches/command&conquerxp.shtml
www.gidforums.com/t-4535.html