if you were to a dual boot system with MS-DOS 6.22 , yeah you're right , you would need the boot disk , AND you'd have to format your hard drive with a DOS 6.22 boot disk cause the partitions must be Fat16 or else DOS 6.22 won't take . And if that's the case , you would need to find the proper DOS souncard/joystick driver for your Creative Sound Card . And Yes a P3 800 is good for playing dos games , even more so to the fact that you'll need a slowdown utility like Mo-Slo to slow em down for some games, and if you have Windows 98 . you can restart into MS-DOS mode and try to run your games like that. You prob may need to get the dos-based creative lab soundcard/joystick driver if that's the case then install it from MS-DOS mode , but only prob is you'd need your HDD to be partitioned into Fat16. DOS Box can be choppy if you don't have at least a P4 1Gig CPU , but it also depends on how much ram you have as well.
DOS gaming is possible you just have to play around with it
My Specs: P166 w/ MMX support
S3 Mira 3d vid card (2 meg onboard)
40 MB EDO ram (toughest ram around still have original)
1 2gig & 1 6.4 Gig HDD , mastered & slaved & partitioned into FAT 16
with my DOS 6.22 boot DISK
Windows ME installed (With DOS 8 separated out , now can start into DOS when I want it , and type "win" and hit enter at prompt when I want Windows ME , so essentially my system runs like Win 3.1)
Creative Sound Blaster 16 card complete w/ proper DOS drivers so I have sound and joystick in DOS 8)
so essentially I dumped that P.O.S DOS Box since it was too slow on my system and it was very bad to begin with, and I hacked me a good system. I've been running it for a year now , and I can play just about any DOS game to my heart's content.
|