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Old 19 December 2010, 06:46 PM
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Default Help needed with an old DOS game on win 7

Spent the afternoon trying to get Fragile Allegiance to work on my pc using DOSBOX but it crashes when loading or in the first minute of the game. had it working fine on a 32bit win xp installation so im wondering if its something to do with win 7. Would it be possible to load DOS onto a usb drive and boot from that?
Old 20 December 2010, 07:43 AM
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Tried XP Mode in Win 7?
Old 20 December 2010, 01:37 PM
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Hi there you can try these steps http://www.daniloelectronica.com/win...th-dosbox.html
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I should have provided more info to start with. Win 7 (64 bit) tried emulation mode and altering the speed of dosbox. Cheers jura ill take a look when I get back.
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VirtualBox and http://virtualboxes.org/images/freedos/ might be worth a punt.
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sorry to change the subject but does anyone know if I can run a old game that requires 256 colour on windows 7 ?
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