Is it possible to play Kings Quest, Hero's Quest...etc.

on an XP machine.

I do know that you can do the emulation on the XP machine to emulate the old OS that the game required.....

Does anyone know if this is possible or not?

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Depends on what it played on. What was it exactly? XP can emulate back to DOS, then all the way up through the Windows OS's.

Yes, I have them on my machine. XP can run about anything, you just need a sound plugin. On some of the really older games (Before KQ5), you have to run DOSBox or similiar.

COOL!!

I am going to have to break out My games and try them

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How do you do this? Cause I have a lot of games that I havn't been able to play in some time...

LinkTriforceGC said:

How do you do this? Cause I have a lot of games that I havn't been able to play in some time...

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basically you will have to install the game..... then create an MS-DOS icon for it (not sure if that is possible in Winxp).... but there has to be an icon for it somehow. Right click the icon.... and then in one of the tabs (maybe advanced) you can selecte what OS to emulate it under.

NOW.... I have only used this once for Rainbow 6 (the original) because RB6 only allows you to used 95/98 I believe... and it didn't like XP or the drivers at all.

If I can get my original police quest, hero's quest..etc.. to work, I'll write up complete steps

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Actually Dave, that process will only work for Win 95 and above. For MS-dos games, you go to the run dialog box, and execute the install file on your floppy disks just like you would have in the past. The Dos emulator will pop up and it will install to your chosen C: directory. Next, go to the directory and click on the executable or batch file. That will run the program and bring up the Dos emulator built into XP.

To make a shortcut, simply find the executable or batch and right drag it to your desktop and make a shortcut. It is that simple.

However, keep in mind that many of the really, really old games will have glitches or no sound. The way to fix this is to get a program called DosBox, which is a much better emulator for SOME games and a program called VDMsound which emulates old PC sound cards.

That is about the only way your going to do it in XP.