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Why come I can't use emulators on my compy? It sais "is not suitable for running MS-DOS" I have Windows XP

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strongfan wrote:
Why come I can't use emulators on my compy? It sais "is not suitable for running MS-DOS" I have Windows XP


Same thing happened to me, but I got it to work somehow... i think I changed which program it should open in, but I don't remember to what. Go into the properties and look in the programs it can be opened with, there might be one that sounds obvious.

Sorry I can't give any more help.
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That happened to me with Sim Ant and Ski Free. =/ I'm using XP, too. Seems to just be happening with my older games, is what you're using old, too?

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It's because Windows XP doesn't use DOS. It uses its own thing that's like DOS, but even suckier. Most DOS programs don't work with it. Get Windows 3.1 :P

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Jello B. wrote:
It's because Windows XP doesn't use DOS. It uses its own thing that's like DOS, but even suckier. Most DOS programs don't work with it. Get Windows 3.1 :P


Okay, but... programs that gave me that message used to work. Know what happened there? =/

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Pepperochu Pepperotyugh wrote:
That happened to me with Sim Ant and Ski Free. =/ I'm using XP, too. Seems to just be happening with my older games, is what you're using old, too?


Weird, the SimAnt I have is Windows XP compatible. You can find it used on amazon.com.

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Pepperochu Pepperotyugh wrote:
Jello B. wrote:
It's because Windows XP doesn't use DOS. It uses its own thing that's like DOS, but even suckier. Most DOS programs don't work with it. Get Windows 3.1 :P


Okay, but... programs that gave me that message used to work. Know what happened there? =/


Snakes on a Plane.

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Jello B. wrote:
Pepperochu Pepperotyugh wrote:
Jello B. wrote:
It's because Windows XP doesn't use DOS. It uses its own thing that's like DOS, but even suckier. Most DOS programs don't work with it. Get Windows 3.1 :P


Okay, but... programs that gave me that message used to work. Know what happened there? =/


Snakes on a Plane.


WHHHUUUUAAAA???!!!!

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SNAKES ON A PLANE!

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SNAKES ON A PLANE!


WHUAUAAUAAAAAA???!!!!!!


I was saying that more to wondering "Why the heck is Jellob. Referenceing snakes on a plane?". I know what it is.

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SNAKES ON A PLANE!


WHUAUAAUAAAAAA???!!!!!!


I was saying that more to wondering "Why the heck is Jellob. Referenceing snakes on a plane?". I know what it is.
Wait, someone said something about Snakes on a Plane? Well then.

PLANES ON A SNAKE!

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Weird, the SimAnt I have is Windows XP compatible. You can find it used on amazon.com.


I don't want to buy it again. O_O; Awwghhh. I miss that game so hard.

And... um. Snakes on a Plane? Is there some kind of hidden [s]massage[/s] message there?

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Even weirder is that Snakes on a Plane has NOTHING to do with this thread..

TOASTPAINT

For those of you who want to play DOS games there's always DOSBOX.

Using it isn't completely straightforward, so I sugeest downloading one of the frontends that are available on the downloads page, too.
...and READ THE DOCUMENTATION..

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What kind of emulator are you trying to use, anyway? PowerPC? 80486? ARM 7?

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Why come I can't use emulators on my compy? It sais "is not suitable for running MS-DOS" I have Windows XP

.... what, did You get it from a site that didn't updated since 1998?
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.... what, did You get it from a site that didn't updated since 1998?
Actually, Windows XP wasn't even released untill 2001

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Um, maby I should restate that question, How do you compy386 emulator with windows xp?

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.... what, did You get it from a site that didn't updated since 1998?
Actually, Windows XP wasn't even released untill 2001

I'm talking about the MS-DOS thing -_-.
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For those of you who want to play DOS games there's always DOSBOX.


Oh yes, DosBox <3
If there's a DOS game that won't run on my computer it will most likely run under DosBox. However, you should have a lot of memory and a relatively powerful CPU if you want to play some newer DOS-games because the emulation process requires a lot of memory.

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Toastpaint guys, how do you use compy386 emulator on windows XP.

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Toastpaint guys, how do you use compy386 emulator on windows XP.

  1. Download it
  2. Unzip it
  3. Run it

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All I had to do was run it. I mean, I helped code it, even. It ran perfectly on XP.

EDIT: Friggin' Snakes on a Plane, SIMULPOST'D!

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it isn't freakin' working! Do I have to like, flash animate what's happening? Wait, that's exactly what I'm going to do!

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Looks like something's mucked up with your NTVDM settings. You'd have to edit the AUTOEXEC by hand.

In other words, get DOSBox and make your life simpler.

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How do I run it with DosBox? I have dos box but how do I run C3E with it?

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Not that I suppose you're actually going to read the whole thing and follow all of the steps, but here's Microsoft's guide to fixing this error, which happens to be the second result when you type the text of the error message into Google, by which I mean with a simple Google search and a little patience and you could have had it fixed four days ago.

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Interpator jones, not working,breadtangle o' pizza, how DO you use dosbox??

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how DO you use dosbox??


You could, I dunno, read the documentation.

Oh, and I-N-T-E-R-R-U-P-T-O-R. :poop:

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SIG'D!

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