12:16 PM 8/9/99
Tech Letter:
A lot of people ask me how to get dos games installed in to
windows 95 / 98. Well there are a few ways to do it. Although all are different.
The easy way:
Click on Start - Programs - MSDOS prompt.
Although this is the easy way, none of Apogee/3D Realms games are
supported via this method, and a lot of times the game locks up or just will not run.
Next way:
Click on START - Shutdown - Restart in MSDOS mode.
Although this is my preferred method of doing dos games, a lot of
computer manufactures do not install any dos drivers into your computer
so when you do this you do not have Sound, CDROM, or Mouse support. You
only have what is installed on your main hard drive. So for the Older
games (Keen 1-3, Cosmo, ect.) this is a good way of doing it, although
for newer (Duke 3D, Shadow, TV) Dos games this will not work.
The Best Way:
Create a short cut that restarts your computer into DOS and loads all the drivers that you need.
This way is what the rest of my .plan will be on.
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