Dos Games

**ukbsktbll** · 09-29-2006, 05:31 PM

I have a friend who I am trying to help him get a game up and running on his Laptop. Its called Colonization. It is fairly old. It requires dos to run it. I am not sure if his laptop has dos or what. I tried it on one of my computers and it wouldnt seem to work. How can you play dos games on a computer that has XP? thanks

**koala** · 09-30-2006, 03:12 AM

If it's an old Win95/98 game, try changing the Compatibility Mode settings. If it's a DOS game, try DOSBox

09-29-2006, 05:31 PM	#1 (permalink)
ukbsktbll TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 620 OS: XP Professional My System	Dos Games I have a friend who I am trying to help him get a game up and running on his Laptop. Its called Colonization. It is fairly old. It requires dos to run it. I am not sure if his laptop has dos or what. I tried it on one of my computers and it wouldnt seem to work. How can you play dos games on a computer that has XP? thanks

09-30-2006, 03:12 AM	#2 (permalink)
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