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So were mine. It was a trip and a half sitting there installing all of that again and reading through all the different messages that pop up.

You'll probably do the same as I did, try installing without dos and discovering that it doesn't work.
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In Windows 95 and 98 I still remember running only one exclusive DOS game- "Silent Hunter". Ran fine in Windows 95/98, but I could never get it to run in XP.

But it was also only one of two exclusively DOS games I had left. I also had "Diplomacy" on DOS that could run...although it was never a great app in itself. Otherwise I just don't recall having difficulty with DOS in those operating systems, but like I said, it was down to only two.

Though I see what you mean, as I recall reading about frustrated users not being able to run much older DOS-based games. After all, the DOS built-in later Windows versions didn't necessarily work with older DOS games.
 
Judge said:
In Windows 95 and 98 I still remember running only one exclusive DOS game- "Silent Hunter". Ran fine in Windows 98, but I could never get it to run in XP.
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For me it was Tomb Raider and Age of Empires and lots of other games from that time. The transition from a fat32 filesystem to NTFS mucked up a lot of people's games for a while. That's why these days you now need an emulator for so many older games, so many things changed at that time including how graphics cards work and are accessed.
 
Outdated said:
For me it was Tomb Raider and Age of Empires and lots of other games from that time. The transition from a fat32 filesystem to NTFS mucked up a lot of people's games for a while. That's why these days you now need an emulator for so many older games, so many things changed at that time including how graphics cards work and are accessed.
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Oh yeah...I was quite militant about that issue years ago. I recall formatting my OS partition in NTFS while all others were FAT32. Knowing that otherwise so many older games would not run at all other than in FAT32.

With graphics cards my one major concern is with flight sims...not being able to run them with Nvidia drivers beyond 40.0 which I still keep archived. Still running them on my legacy Windows XP system.
 
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