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> Too bad the new version was not completed for MS-DOS. If it was it would have been possible to play it on not just on Windows, but pretty much every modern an
by M95D 2y ago
> Too bad the new version was not completed for MS-DOS. If it was it would have been possible to play it on not just on Windows, but pretty much every modern and near-future (and far-future?) system.
Systems today can't run MS-DOS, or any other programs that use BIOS interrupts. They aren't there anymore.
- d3VwsX 2y agoThat is why I mentioned DOSBox. That is just one possibility, but probably currently the best one. DOS(Box) remains a fixed, known, target. Windows, even if it has impressive backwards compatibility, breaks older games often enough that it becomes annoying. If a DOS game is distributed, as GOG does for old DOS games, with a bundled installer and DOSBox configuration, normal users would not even have to know they are playing a non-native game. We can treat it as just a generic virtual machine for games. The fact that it happens to also be backwards compatible with DOS games made 40 years ago is just a fun bonus, even if that is currently its primary purpose.
- Andys 2y agoTechnically they still exist, you can buy new 8086 machines and 386s with new motherboards and recycled industrial CPUs, etc.