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I have recently bought an older game which I now found out has to be run on Win 95 or in DOS. I am currently running Windows XP Home Edition, and would like to know if anyone has any tips on how to get my game to run. I have already tried to create a DOS startup disk on a floppy and my computer simply refuses to do it. Any suggestions?

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by oz_media

Right click desktop and select Properties>Settings>Advanced>Troubleshooting
Set slider to no hardware acceleration.

You SHOULD be able to run the game but sound may not be available.

If you still need help, you should post questions in the Tech Q&A section, you will get more responses than in a Discussion forum.

by jamesrl

I tried for a long time to get some of my older games like "Eastern Front" to run, by using Win 95 compatibility mode, tweaking, testing. In desparation I called the vendor who said the only solution was a dual boot PC.

James

by brwn5eyd7grl

How do I make a dual boot system? Is that when i try to insert a floppy and have it reboot in dos? or am i missing something?

by jdclyde

Basicly you partition your drive into at least two "virtual" drives. They can show up on your XP system as drives C and D.

You then would load win98 on the second partition.

When you turn the system on, it asks which partition to boot to, which is the only real draw back. you have to reboot to get to the other OS.

I have a quad boot system I use for support. I have Win98/ME/2K loaded on the first three, and the fourth I ended up mounting under the win2k because I needed more room and didn't want to spread my programs around. Use a different system for XP support. This lets me boot to which ever OS I need to walk people through over the phone.

Do a google search, as there are many detailed guides that will show you step by step how to do this. There are also products like partition magic that can handle this for you. Many options and many here could give you a better guide of how to, instead of What to.

Post in the QA on creating a dual boot in the windows category and you will get all the info you need or just do the google search.

Let us know if you get it going. Good luck!

by brwn5eyd7grl

Running the compatibility mode brings me soooo close.. it loads up the majority of the screen, but then it all turns black and then it brings up an error: Error 105 Script#64940 and then a bunch of goofy signs.. I dont know if the name of the game would help.. or if anyone knows what the error means. The game is called "Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh" ..if that helps. Again.. thank you all for all of ur help.

by oz_media

Dual boot looks like the only way out. I dug around deja.com and that is the general concensus, run a separate DOS or Win95 partition.

Phantasmagoria (first one) was supposedly tweakable to run on NT but there are no answers for #2.

by brwn5eyd7grl

I will definately try the dual boot.. I appreciate all the time and effort you folks have put in on this.. ill post and let you know how it turns out.. thanks again!

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