Thread: Running an ancient game with XP

"JoeSpareBedroom" <dishborealis@yahoo.com> wrote
> OK, you old fart MS superstars - remember Duke Nukem? My son's facing
> college in September, so I think he's trying to relive his childhood. He
> asked me to get the old Duke game running. I allowed it to do its install
> routine, double clicked the duke3d.exe file, and I get 2 seconds of a
> DOS-like full screen box, which then vanishes with no error message. Do I
> need to create some sort of pif file for this, so it gets special
> treatment?

There is a games newsgroup. Might be a better place for this question.
microsoft.public.windowsxp.games

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

On Mar 1, 5:40 pm, "JoeSpareBedroom" <dishborea...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> OK, you old fart MS superstars - remember Duke Nukem? My son's facing
> college in September, so I think he's trying to relive his childhood. He
> asked me to get the old Duke game running. I allowed it to do its install
> routine, double clicked the duke3d.exe file, and I get 2 seconds of a
> DOS-like full screen box, which then vanishes with no error message. Do I
> need to create some sort of pif file for this, so it gets special treatment?

Old DOS games tend to have problems with XP especially with sound
cards. I was somewhat able to get it to work under VDMSound. Or you
may want to look at DOSBox.