Well, today I got myself Battle spire *yay!*, but to run it I have to type SPIRE into the MS-DOS program. Thats all well and good, except I cant find my MS-DOS program on XP . Do any of you know where it might be found?

E Gads! Running something through MS-Dos? Going bthe stone ages are we?

To answer your question, open the start menu, go to accessories, and the icon for Command Prompt should be in that list.

Hope this works

Well, I now know where the MS-DOS prompt is, and I learned that I cant understand what it says when I type ping into it, but this fould creation of 1997 still eludes me. Does anyone here have Battlepire? If so, do you know how to get it to run on XP?

windows xp does not have DOS, try finding a dos emulator or resort to windows 2000, believe me, i tried running Command and conquer and Crusader No Remorse on this gay creation of a OS and there IS NO DOS MODE on it, command prompt is another story, take a mental note, using command prompt will not help you, nor will it do much....except for netsend, perfect for school networks...MUHAHAHAHA

MS-DOS should be in the system of windows folders. (in with the system files)

I looked in my system files folder "C:\WINDOWS" on mine (Windows XP Home; which type are you using) and the only file i found was a file called "_default", which didn't work. Not saying that you are wrong, saldrex, but just that it didn't work with me.

Have you tried asking Microsuxx? I doubt you'll get a response from them within this decade, but you never know. Also, their website might say something.

yep, and when i go back to school with my new laptop (i go back tomorrow; S**T!!!!!; but on tuesday or wednesday ill have it) im going to install all these IP blocking programs, so no one can do it to me, then, ill netsend away, especially to the administrator computer in the library, MUHAHAHAHAHAH!

for the last time, WINDOWS XP DOES NOT HAVE DOS, it was built under the windows NT code and NT didnt have it, why it doesnt have it, no one uses it anymore, you dont need to boot from a disk drive anymore, just throw the XP cd in, and itll come up with various options for you.

someone...please....lock this

wesaynothin - try this - it works for me on some older games.

Go into the directory that the game is in. Find the file with the .exe program for your game, then doubleclick it. It may or may not run. On my new machine, these things run fine (I just tried it with Sid Meiers Colonization and Railroad Tycoon Deluxe), on the other, they are buggy some times.

Let me know what happens. I believe that there's the ability in some of the stuff to emulate dos modes, and if you have the memory, it will let you play the games in the emulator.

When I double-click the .exe it loads what looks like a dos prompt, then it closes itself.

When you restart XP (same system I'm running) tap the F8 key during the F2 set-up prompt (black screen). There should be an option listed to start in MS DOS mode which you can access through the up/down arrow keys. I really hope this helps. If not, perhaps this might do the trick http://www.gamersroam.com/modules.php?name...iewtopic&t=1293

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As Ohgr has stated, there is a notable difference between the Command Prompt (Which is the application accessed through the Start menu, CMD.EXE, and the "Safe Mode with Command Prompt" startup option) and an actual copy of DOS -- the Command Prompt included in NT-based operating systems is actually better viewed as a command interpreter because many DOS applications cannot run on it because of security restrictions and things that can be best described as environmental shortcomings.

As Ohgr has also said (Sort of), Windows XP does not have DOS support like the good old Windows 98 "Reboot to Command Prompt" option -- no Microsoft OS past Windows 98, and certainly no OS based upon Windows NT has it. You'll have to get a version of DOS and dual-boot it. If you only have one partition with the NTFS filesystem and no unpartitioned space on your hard drive, you'll have to use a utility like BootIt NG to resize your lone partition and devote the new free space on your hard drive to a FAT partition capable of storing the game. If you have some unpartitioned space and you believe that it is large enough to hold the game, create a FAT partition and move on -- if you do not meet the latter condition, then you'll have to resize whatever partition preceeds that valuable real estate so that you can get the game onto a FAT filesystem. If you have multiple partitions, one of which is formatted as FAT and is large enough to hold the game, you're good to go -- likewise if you have only one FAT partition.

When you have a FAT partition of adequate size avaliable, install the game to that partition and start looking for a DOS boot disk -- a boot disk containing the NT boot loader or the "rescue" data obtained via MSBackup won't do the job, nor is the version of PC-DOS contained upon the archived boot disks contained with many BIOS flashing utilities -- you'll probably need some form of memory management in order to run the game. Boot from the boot disk, access the FAT filesystem containing the game, and run the contained executable.

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