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

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From: Volfie999
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:53

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On Mar 11, 6:37 pm, myk <miguelfolate...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Thank you as well.

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From: Volfie999 <mooseboyskip@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Maybe a dumb question about DOOM II...
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