Re: Maybe a dumb question about DOOM II...

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From: myk
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:37

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On Mar 4, 1:28 am, Volfie999 <mooseboys...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Is there anyway to play it in Windows Vista?
>
> The old computer with Windows 2000 plays it as well as it ever did,
> but is it possible to do it on Vista?  It installed on the computer,
> from the original DOOM II disk, but it never loaded up.  Just the
> music played.  (Which was kinda hilarious, cause just the main DOOM
> theme song was going, and nothing else was happening. :))
>
> Any suggestions, or help??
>
> Thanks

DOSBox will allow you to run the DOOM games (among many other old DOS
games) on modern systems.

http://www.dosbox.com/

I'm guessing you're using Doom95, or else you'd have some sound
problems in windows 2000.

You can get the DOS executable from the shareware, if it wasn't
included in your CD.

ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/doom/doom19s.zip

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