FreeDOS

[ZenStalinist]

I am thinking of setting up a FreeDOS machine to play some old games.

Question is, would you reccomend it? I tried it a few years back, and it was extremely unreliable. Is it any better now?

 

[2scoops0406]

Can't you use mame instead?

 

[nad]

if you have Win XP, they have a good feature where you can ask the OS to run a dos program to run under DOS, WIn 98, in 256 colour mode, etc.

 

[Porker]

I'm with Eddie and am a Mame addict. If you were into arcade games in the 80's you're laughing.

It is very stable.

 

[ZenStalinist]

Win XP sucks. I'm not paying uncle billy more money. I got Windows 2000 on student licence, when they did Operating Systems on student licence, and that's all I need or want on the windows front. I might try to partition some freeDOS in. I used DR-DOS at one point, I managed to obtain it for free on the condition of personal use only. It was actually a relatively good system.

As for MAME, I agree it's quite good for old arcade games. I remember playing on it in '98, on a computer with 8 megs of RAM and 120Mhz Pentium processor and it ran more or less stable, so it's gotta be darn good now.