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I thought this was rather interesting. Posted on AGWC by 'BioHaz 594'
'I have gotten Wing Commander Armada to work under Windows98 by having it
make a shortcut to run the game in a virtual DOS window. Then before you
run the shortcut, you have to go into the shortcut properties and tell it to
run in protected mode, and also set the initial environment memory (600k)
and such. Took me a lot of tweaking, but I did get it to work and over a
network, with sound and everything.
The problem with running old games on newer systems mostly is the sound card
and CPU speed, fewer cards are becoming legacy compatible nativly (when I
got armada to run, is because I had legacy SB emulation drivers for my
Diamond Monster M80 card.) And with all of the new computers and higher and
higher CPU clock speeds, you are most certainly going to need a CPU
decellerator. But If you have WindowsME, dont even bother trying to run
older DOS games because Microshaft, in all of its infinite wisdom, cut
almost all of the pure & "legacy" DOS support out. I can no longer get
Armada (and a few other of my classic favs) to run on my system at all
Im seriously considering downgrading my OS so I can play them again
I hope someone makes a Armada patch, or even an updated version that uses
graphics accellerators to improve the graphics...
Origin, are you paying attention??'
'I have gotten Wing Commander Armada to work under Windows98 by having it
make a shortcut to run the game in a virtual DOS window. Then before you
run the shortcut, you have to go into the shortcut properties and tell it to
run in protected mode, and also set the initial environment memory (600k)
and such. Took me a lot of tweaking, but I did get it to work and over a
network, with sound and everything.
The problem with running old games on newer systems mostly is the sound card
and CPU speed, fewer cards are becoming legacy compatible nativly (when I
got armada to run, is because I had legacy SB emulation drivers for my
Diamond Monster M80 card.) And with all of the new computers and higher and
higher CPU clock speeds, you are most certainly going to need a CPU
decellerator. But If you have WindowsME, dont even bother trying to run
older DOS games because Microshaft, in all of its infinite wisdom, cut
almost all of the pure & "legacy" DOS support out. I can no longer get
Armada (and a few other of my classic favs) to run on my system at all
Im seriously considering downgrading my OS so I can play them againI hope someone makes a Armada patch, or even an updated version that uses
graphics accellerators to improve the graphics...
Origin, are you paying attention??'
I also ran across a website 