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Win 2K and DOS games

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by ridire 1 view

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Where did they hide DOS mode in Win 2K? I still use '98 andm y son has 2K...I was trying to help him set up his machine to run the KQ 6 pack and nothing I did (including a floppy boot) would let him access his computer and CD ROM in DOS mode!!! Itis a DELL system but I don't know the details...

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by ridire

It needs a full DOS mode, as the game hangs in the Command Prompt, even when the advanced settings "Do not allow programs to detect windows" is used...thanks!
--Paul

by buffalodan

Windows 2000 is based upon windows NT, meaning that there is no actual dos mode.
There is however a Dos virtual machine emulator. The command is this: "CMD.exe"

Note, this IS NOT DOS....

Win NT will NOT allow for direct access to ANY hardwaredevices, NT uses an Operating System layer known as the HAL (hardware access layer). Any Dos game that needs direct access to hardware (sound, video, direct access to drives...etc,) will not work correctly, just won't.

best bet, search the web site of the publisher's of KQ for references to Win2k,
odds are you are not the only one experiencing problems getting their stuff to run under win2k

by buffalodan

P.S. Dos mode in win9x and below...runs from this command:

command.com

in Win98, click on start, choose run, put "command" in the white dialog line, and press enter....you will open a dos window.

Can't do that with NT or 2000....
command.com does not exist. In NT/2000 type "CMD" instead and press enter, you will get a "Dos Virtual Machine", however, as you know, this does not operate quite the same as it does in win98...(hardware access layer)

Good luck, hope this helps.

by john h.

As stated earlier, after win9x, there is no more "dos mode". What you could try is making a dos boot disk and booting your computer from that disk. You will not be able to see any partitions using ntfs or fat32 file systems though. DOS will only see fat16 partitions. Win Me also has no dos mode. Good luck.

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