Reliving the glory days ... need help

*Rooish* · 10-07-2007, 12:48 PM

Hello folks and folkettes! This isn't exactly a thread about video games; it's about computer games. But, unless I'm horrendously unobservant, there is no computer game category.

When I was young, I used to play some tremendously amazing games on my old computers. (The one I miss most is SimCity 2000.) Now I have Windows XP, and I have tried to download old games from various sites, but most of them require DOS and I don't remember how to use DOS. I downloaded a DOS emulator, and I downloaded old games into folders on my computer and unzipped them. But I'm a little sketchy on the details of whether I'm even unzipping all of these files properly, which one is the actual game file, and how to play the game in DOS. I don't know how to "mount" a game in DOS, whatever that means ... I think I ended up mounting my entire C drive, and I'm not sure what sort of damage that did.

So I probably sound completely computer illiterate now. I can pick up on stuff fast, though. So basically, I'm having trouble unzipping games and running them in DOS. Any suggestions?

10-07-2007, 12:48 PM	#1
Rooish Devil's Advocate Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Toronto, Ontario Posts: 2,130	Reliving the glory days ... need help Hello folks and folkettes! This isn't exactly a thread about video games; it's about computer games. But, unless I'm horrendously unobservant, there is no computer game category. When I was young, I used to play some tremendously amazing games on my old computers. (The one I miss most is SimCity 2000.) Now I have Windows XP, and I have tried to download old games from various sites, but most of them require DOS and I don't remember how to use DOS. I downloaded a DOS emulator, and I downloaded old games into folders on my computer and unzipped them. But I'm a little sketchy on the details of whether I'm even unzipping all of these files properly, which one is the actual game file, and how to play the game in DOS. I don't know how to "mount" a game in DOS, whatever that means ... I think I ended up mounting my entire C drive, and I'm not sure what sort of damage that did. So I probably sound completely computer illiterate now. I can pick up on stuff fast, though. So basically, I'm having trouble unzipping games and running them in DOS. Any suggestions?