I've been trying to download some old game from the Underdogs, which project I support. Anyway I can't make those old games run on my new computer. I recently downloaded Discworld 2 (because I'm reading a lot of pratchett now) and it won't work on windows 2000.

Is there some kind of way to make these old games work on a nowadays system?

Get Win95/98. I can still play old DOS games on a machine running Windows 98. You get the occasional crash, but I can live with that. Maybe you can get DOS emulators off the net or something for later versions of Windows.

I bought the original Tomb Raider not long back. Hoping for a nice ride down memory lane. Never got the thing to work. I assume a game that old is dos as well.

Well, nothing I download from the Underdogs works anymore - I keep getting empty Winzip folders :(

But as to your question - maybe your computer is too fast? There are programs that you can use to slow it down.

For playing games that are well advanced in years I just use dosbox (http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/). Easy to configure, easy to use. If you still have problems a decent range of frontends for dosbox does exist.

or if you are having difficulties with dosbox, try vdmsound, it's a lot easier then dosbox. you can get it here: http://ntvdm.cjb.net/
and yes i had trouble getting dosbox to work :doh:

Well that program seemes to work but now it asks for the cd-rom.

VDMSound and DosBox are the best tools for old games ever.

Try looking on the UD forums...I'm pretty sure Discworld has come up on there before.

Are you using DosBox or VDMSound? DOSBox can emulate a CDROM drive, check out the help files. I think VDMSound can too, since I used it for TIE Fighter; try creating a custom config.

Apeman you mean dosbox asked for the cd right? thats because you mounted(sp) a C: instead of D: (or whatever your cd drive is called) when the games run from a cd you have to make a fake dos using the Cd drive instead of your hard disk drive.
damn i suck at technical English so don't ***** to much about my explanation.

maybe your computer is too fast? There are programs that you can use to slow it down. One such program is Moslo. It slowed down games like Ultima 1-4, making them playable on Win98 for me.

Tomb Raider1 works with Glidos. I tried it a couple years back with a Ti4200 card. Only played the first two levels, but they worked flawlessly. There's a trick to getting the sound to work, and I don't remember exactly what I did. But it couldn't have been all that difficult. ;)

You can always download the install disks to Dos 6.0 or something, and use VMware to make yourself a C:. Or you can use compatibility mode and VDMSound.

With Win2k, it's imperative that you download Application Compatibility Toolkit. Version 2.5 only works with XP (but I think there's a way to trick it into working with Win2k), but Version 2.0 will work with W2k.

And then there's Dosemu and Dosbox. I haven't ever tried those.

For CPU limiters, there's moslo. Moslo always makes a "jerky" experience in the game, for me. It would nearly stop, then rush forward, stop, rush forward. CPU Killer is a GUI application for Win32, and I've found it much smoother than moslo. Back in the OLD days there was ATslow, and it worked the absolute best out of everything I've ever tried. It was command-line, so you didn't have to deal with a slow computer when you're adjusting CPUkiller. Someone update ATslow 4 or 5 years ago, but I don't know if it can deal with the 2000+ MIPS that we pull today.

There's lot of options. You have to see what works with your machine and level of skill.