Re: Gaming with your DOS card

2005-06-20 Thread Brian Futrell
Gregg Eshelman wrote: I want to get this Windows 95 game "Warheads" to work with 2000. It has to run from the CD-ROM, so I make a desktop shortcut and set it to run in Win95 compatability mode. All goes well until I click to start the game, then it hides the mouse pointer and "pops up" a hidde

Re: Gaming with your DOS card

2005-04-22 Thread Darren
Brian Futrell wrote: If memory serves me correctly (I may be wrong), I thought that if you had a 3D accelerated video card that the Voodoo 1/2 card would not work. Not quite, we replaced the Voodoo3 with a ATI Radeon 7000 which has gone well except the PcSetup extentions conflict with ATI's. I

Re: Gaming with your DOS card

2005-04-22 Thread Gregg Eshelman
I want to get this Windows 95 game "Warheads" to work with 2000. It has to run from the CD-ROM, so I make a desktop shortcut and set it to run in Win95 compatability mode. All goes well until I click to start the game, then it hides the mouse pointer and "pops up" a hidden window. To get things b

Re: Gaming with your DOS card

2005-04-18 Thread Brian Futrell
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 01:21:15 +1000 Darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian Futrell wrote: > > >I'll give that a try when I get home. The main reason > I'm > >trying this with VPC/Dos cards is that even though I > have > >several PCs, the majority of them are too fast for some > of > >the games

Re: Gaming with your DOS card

2005-04-18 Thread Darren
Brian Futrell wrote: I'll give that a try when I get home. The main reason I'm trying this with VPC/Dos cards is that even though I have several PCs, the majority of them are too fast for some of the games. TR1 on a Semperon 2200 when it ran OK on a P75? Right. Have you had a look at DosBo

Re: Gaming with your DOS card

2005-04-18 Thread Brian Futrell
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:39:40 +1000 Darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian Futrell wrote: > > >Has anyone had this particular problem when playing > games on a PC > >Compatibility Card? > > > >If playing a game that requires the use of the keyboard > to move > >around, occasionally it seems t

Re: Gaming with your DOS card

2005-04-18 Thread Darren
Brian Futrell wrote: Has anyone had this particular problem when playing games on a PC Compatibility Card? If playing a game that requires the use of the keyboard to move around, occasionally it seems to get stuck moving left or right. On my P166 card, it seems to be fairly frequent. The only