XP and Beyond

[TheReturnofDMD]

Hello


This is continuing something I wrote about earlier, about how KQ, SQ, QFG and other series games would work on future Operating Systems, is it possible using today's technology that a computer, whilst having all the techno advances of XP, could still play the old games (I am, as an example, referring to KQ V-VII)? Or are they just going to fade away? There must be some way to convince Vivendi to at the very least reissue the games...Any ideas?

[Louisiana Night]

You could use DOSbox... or do you mean native support?

[edgarnick]

What Dosbox? Is it ms-dos or is just a disk operating system. But what about KQ VII that doesn't use DOS.

[Yonkey]

What Dosbox? Is it ms-dos or is just a disk operating system.

It's a DOS emulator (a program that can fool other programs/games into thinking you are running MS-DOS and a slow computer).

[Louisiana Night]

What Dosbox? Is it ms-dos or is just a disk operating system. But what about KQ VII that doesn't use DOS.

DOSbox

If it's Window, then you could try VDMsound(the main site is down).

King's Quest and XP

Olde Adventure Game Problems

btw, if  you have the KQ Collection, you're able  to run KQ7 in DOS. Though I've never found an XP machine that it wouldn't work on(without DOSbox/VDMsound).

[Drunken Chinchilla]

One thing I've been wondering about, when systems get so powerful and so advanced that they aren't using the same core "things" (hehe im so technologically minded) as computers today then wont they have the neccessary power to just emulate the old way of doing it?

[Louisiana Night]

I doubt that will happen... even when we're all using organic computers( ), I think it's just a matter of people making emulators that can run the files(though it could be tricky getting the files from an ancient CD-ROM by then/converting them into a readable format ).

So I'd say people still wanting to put the time/effort into it is(by then) more likely to stop modern PCs from working with old programs.

[edgarnick]

What Dosbox? Is it ms-dos or is just a disk operating system.

It's a DOS emulator (a program that can fool other programs/games into thinking you are running MS-DOS and a slow computer).

i see 

[Storm]

One thing I've been wondering about, when systems get so powerful and so advanced that they aren't using the same core "things" (hehe im so technologically minded) as computers today then wont they have the neccessary power to just emulate the old way of doing it?

Of course the computers have the POWER... but they just don't bother implementing it into the OS That's why people have to go and write emulators
My computer, however, doesn't have the necessary power to emulate I've tried DosBox and found that except the most basic ones, games run unbearaly slow and the sound stutters so annoyingly I had to turn it off

[Deloria]

I heard Bill Gates was planning to apologize for XP's, I don't think he ever got around to it.