abandonware on new computers

[kezza]

i just found a great site, that has a lot of the old abandonware games, they are all complete games ziped up!

this is the game im trying to get to work, but all seem to give me the same problems

Leisure_Suit_Larry_1_In_-_The_Land_Of_The_Lounge_Lizards_(VGA)

my stupid question i have vista and i have tryed a few things to get them to work like run in windows 98 mode ect, but it keeps giving me a box titled 16 bit ms-dos subsystem

This system does not support fullscreen mode. choose'close' to terminate the application! if i ignore a few times it has an app crash of NTVDM.EXE has stopped working!

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH

Application Name: ntvdm.exe

Application Version: 6.0.6001.18000

Application Timestamp: 47918baf

Fault Module Name: StackHash_1703

Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0

Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000

Exception Code: c0000005

Exception Offset: 00009f1e

OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.6

Locale ID: 3081

Additional Information 1: 1703

Additional Information 2: 2264db07e74365624c50317d7b856ae9

Additional Information 3: 1344

Additional Information 4: 875fa2ef9d2bdca96466e8af55d1ae6e

any help would be great, it never was hard to play the good old pc games on the 486 back in the day!!!!

i hate VISTAAAAA

[Brian Hoffman]

Use a program called "dosbox" Dosbox is a DOS emulator for windows. It will play all those old sierra titles. Id also recommend using D-FEND DOSBOX FE.

It is a wizard for setting up games in dos box and you can even create shortcuts and set gameex up to use the shortcuts to play the games.

[kezza]

hey brian, that sounds like the shot! i got a dosbox ver 0.72 and ya have to do all the old school mount drive files! lol

i will try and find this wizard, because i would be very happy if i was able to still run gameex and be able to jump directly into those old games without too much hastle..

thanks heaps for the advise, ill let you know how i go?

oh, is their something in the gameex set up for dos box emulation?

ta kezza