ok i'll do that then. my friend jason has a windows xp vm i can use and
get from him.
On 6/19/2013 11:10 AM, Thomas Ward wrote:
Hi Josh,
Well, personally I think a Windows XP virtual machine is the best
solution for playing these old games. I am saying that both as a
Windows user and a Linux user. Reason being that Dosbox isn't
accessible on any platform, and while Dosemu works on Linux I've never
been able to get it to play sound while running as a dumb terminal.
Besides that there are a number of other accessible games that for one
reason or another that just runs better on XP. I can think of a lot of
games written in VB 6 that really run better on XP, and just aren't as
well supported on Windows 7. Therefore if you are going to go through
the trouble of setting up an XP virtual machine you might as well as
install all of your older games on it rather than using Dosemu etc.
For example, I've spent some time this last week trying to get a
number of audio games running using Wine on Linux. Besides being a
pain in the butt to setup and get working correctly there are a number
of games that crash using Wine. However, if I Install XP on Linux
using VMWare or Virtual Box they run fine. So an XP virtual machine is
the best solution all and all.
On 6/19/13, Josh Kennedy <joshknnd1...@gmail.com> wrote:
so what do you think is the best way to play these old games? linux with
dosemu or a windows xp vm?
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