[drcobalt]

i was looking at dosbox yesterday - can download ElderScrolls Arena from the bethesda website for free and wondered :

A. if its worth doing
b. It seemed complicated to set up

[retired_cassiechi]

i deven pay to get my hands on MI 1 and 2 again, the other parts where a little dull tbh.

[retired_davejwk]

Originally posted by Starclaws:
i was looking at dosbox yesterday - can download ElderScrolls Arena from the bethesda website for free and wondered :

A. if its worth doing
b. It seemed complicated to set up

Once you know some basic input functions, DOSBox is straightfoward to use. Here are some I know:

<UL TYPE=SQUARE><LI>mount c cfolder directory a\folder directory b\etc
<LI>c:
<LI>executable.exe</UL>

#1 is telling the application a specific directory location
#2 is specifying the drive to be used
#3 is specifying which executable file to be used

Its a good idea to show all extensions if you haven't already. Do this from any tools menu in a folder by clicking Tools &gt; Folder Options &gt; View Tab &gt; Uncheck Hide Extensions For Known File Types.

Some other basic control features in DB include Ctrl+F12 to speed-up framecycles, Ctrl+F8 to increase frameskips, Ctrl+F11 to reduce framecycles.

[retired_brinker317]

www.eliteclub.co.uk has Frontier:Elite II and Frontier:Final Encounters available as Shareware - just got the former (I didn't bother with FE) running nicely on DOSBox :cool:

Now I'm off to Ridequat \o/

[retired_civilian888]

What a lovely thread

I'm the same really, the next gen games haven't really done it for me, apart from a few sports games and a few Wii games I just haven't got into any of them, Zelda is probably the only game i've completed in years

Bought a MegaDrive and Mega CD off ebay last week, was playing Road Rash II with the g/f the other night for over an hour on 2 player, its still the best 2 player game for me, up there with Mario Kart anyway

Was also playing Tom Cat Alley and remembering how rubbish I was at it, though I did discover that if you play the disk as a CD theres a track on there with some guy saying 'Gay Monkeys' really fast

[dejasade]

i got asked not to post threads for abandonware software. most of which run in dosbox. i played populous for a while on dosbox.