![]() ![]() Has anyone been able to run this game successfully on PCem and if so what configuration did you use? I remember I was able to play this previously on DOSBox (on one of its many versions) but wanted to give PCem a try and have a more "realistic" experience. I tried switching different processors and video devices but all had the same result. When the game goes to the "login" screen it's all black and if you type in anything and press Enter it just shows garbled graphics and can't go on from there. The first game I tried which is the one I wanted to play the most was Ultrabots / Xenobots but it didn't work correctly. CPU: i486DX2/66 (not sure if I should check Dynamic Recompiler or not) I recently set up PCem V17 with this configuration in order to install DOS 6.22 and play some games: Ahh Netscape 3 - my fav browser back in the days of simple HTML, before javascript-orrhea, when website would actually load over a dial-up connection. Sadly, there isn't much more you can do as fas as surfing the web because no DOS/WFW browser supports HTTPS so only Google, VOGONS and few other websites will work. The best performer was Arachne for DOS - IE5 kept choking on scripts, Netscape was only slightly better. Still, I did get it to work.Īrachne for DOS Web Browser with DOS PKT driver VHD image into PCEM and just changed a bunch of drivers). I wanted to duplicate the setup I had in MS Virtual PC (Ok, I cheated, I imported the MS VPC. I did manage to setup PCEM with DOS 6.22 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and networking. One thing I don't like is having to rely on a third party tool such as WinImage just to be able to import/export files to/from the HD image. I may at some point try and setup Win9x in PCEM just to see if I could get it to work. I haven't tried DOOM/DUKE3D/WOLF3D/DESCENT2 becauseĪ) I read that performance-wise the experience isn't goodī) I have modern Windows ports of those games I have been able to play all my old favorite 386/486 DOS games in DOSBOX on my Windows 10 PC. Other will require fine tuning the CONFIG file (DOSBOX allows you to have individual config files for each game). Some games will work out of the box with the default configuration. Copying/updating your DOS game is a breeze since you are mounting a subdirectory in your host OS. PCEM/86BOX, VirtualBOX, VMWare all duplicate this experience.ĭOSBOX is breeze - No virtual HD images or DOS required. I have a lot of (mostly unpleasant) memories of how much 'fun' it was tweaking DOS to work with games that required too much base RAM, didn't like EMS, didn't like my video card, etc. I did lots of DOS gaming in the 386/486 era and when comparing ease of setup DOSBOX is superior. I wasn't much of a PC gamer until Windows XP so I can't comment on how one performs over the other for Windows 9x. ![]()
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