Sorry, but AFAIK, Windows XP has absolutely no DOS code in it, so you can’t really use it for playing old games (Hell, Command and Conquer: Red Alert won’t even run on XP). I remember this being one of the big complaints people had about the new OS.
So, won’t a dos game work in compatibility mode? Isn’t compatibility mode supposed to emulate the environment chosen (lets say Win95 for instance)?
In win95 you can play Dos games.
But I don’t know why I am saying this because I already know what the answer is - Dos games in Win95 are already being emulated (sort of) so playing them in WinXP compatibility mode would be emulation within emulation.
Or (short answer) - WinXP has no dos code whatsoever. Which someone has already said.
Can someone lend me a gun?
P.S. WinXP has the console. Can’t that play dos games (with some serious messing about)
A DOS boot disk, as xash mentioned before, or my solution of a separate computer with MS-DOS 6.22 for the old classic games.
The problem with that for me is that my XP machine has no floppy drive, the DOS machine has no network card, and transferring from one to the other can be an … adventure.