Old Star Wars Games on New Computer Systems (was: Tie Fighter Collectors' CD-ROM Works in DOSBox) — Page 2

Oh, the joys of modern systems... just like it was nearly-impossible to run certain Win95 games under XP.

If your rig is powerful enough, you may want to try with "virtualization" (I hate this word!). Just like DOSBOX is a faux-MSDOS running within your Windows, you install  Oracle VM VirtualBox or Windows Virtual PC which enable you to install a different operating system within themselves (thus making is safe and hassle-free). If that problem with game isn't hardware-related, it should help, because the game will be run under the older operating system environment.

Kurgan said:

This is why you should keep an old computer around...

or just set up a dual boot.

later

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I have an old Pentium 300 in the loft and just about every possible Star Wars game available up to about 2002 is installed on it.

I might try and find out if I can make the HDD into a Virtual PC vhd file for my newer PC's

Following on from two of my previous posts...

Firstly, I did dig out that old PC HDD and make a VHD file out of my old "Star Wars gaming PC" Everything worked OK after a bit of messing around getting things set up. The biggest problem was sorting out the drive letters of already installed CD Rom games. This was all done on a Windows XP desktop PC.

The second thing is that I can now finally play Rogue Squadron 3D PC on my Windows 7 laptop

http://www.dgemu.com/forums/index.php?/topic/475925-mh-star-wars-rogue-squadron-3d/

I have not got very far into the game but have yet to have any of the problems highlighted in any of the posts.