You will probably have to use a memory manager to free memory for memory hungry games, and figure out the correct IRQ and DMA settings for your sound card. If you don't have a DOS installation disk handy, you can download FreeDOS and install it to get the computer up and running. If you don't have one you might be able to find one at a flea market or yard sale for a low price. Some people like to keep an old computer around just for the reason of running their old applications and games. The following are some recommendations on how you can get that old 16 bit application/game running again just as you remember it. The good news is there are numerous 3rd party applications that will give much better compatibily with these 16 bit applications. Unfortunately the built in virtual machine leaves much to be desired when trying to get old games working correctly. Windows does provide a virtual machine that allows execution of 16 bit programs on these platforms. Current versions of the Windows operating system are programmed for 32 and more recently 64 bit platforms where a 16 bit application may not be able to run directly. Most of the games featured on this site run best in a 16 bit DOS environment where they have full access to available hardware. The short answer is to download and use DOSBox. How do you get your old game working on a modern system? V&F has been written by Burkhard Meissner, University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg, Germany.Complete Pictorial Guide to Installing the Aces Collection Series with DOSBox To contact the author, either use his e-mail address: V&F is distributed under the GNU General Public License without any warranty and without the source code. 3.7-beta2 and BSD WHEREIS, ported to DOS by B.Meißner 2.14 (units conversion program), RECODE v. Unix programs improved and ported to DOS and other operating systems: time execution timing utility and lsh small shell pdf formatĭescription of V&F and its usage in text statisticsĪssembly language utilities for DOS written by B.Meißner Short documentation how to set-up and use V&F under Linux and DOS emulationĬomprehensive usage manual in. Short documentation how to use V&F under Windows Programs to convert V&F output to unicode (UTF-8)įurther hints for setting up DOSEmu (zipped file) Microsoft VirtualPC© virtual FreeDOS hardd disk with View & Find(zipped files) tar.gz archiveĭOSBox and V&F for OS X example installation as a bzip2-compressed tar-archive (install a version from the DOSBox page for serious work)ĭOSBox and V&F for FreeBSD example installation as a gzip-compressed tar-archive Qemu and V&F for LINUX example installation as a bzip2-compressed tar-archive (64 bit – download Qemu source or binaries if you are running another system)īochs and V&F for LINUX example installation as a bzip2-compressed tar-archive (64 bit – download Bochs source or binaries if you are running another system)ĭOSBox and V&F for OpenSolaris (Intel x86) as a. Easy installation runs from floppy disk image with its own configuration file.ĭOSEmu V&F for LINUX example configuration to show the principles (requires DOSEmu installed) as a gzip-compressed tar-archive – get DOSEmu or. zip archive (corrected batch files)ĭOSBox and V&F for LINUX as a bzip2-compressed tar-archive (64 and 32 bit)ĭOSEmu V&F for LINUX configuration (requires DOSEmu installed) as a zipped archive – get DOSEmu or. For Linux systems, we recommend DOSEmu for its high searching (disk I/O) speed, flexibility and ease of use and DOSBox for its stability and high terminal I/O speed.ĭOSBox and V&F for Win-32 as a. It also works under native DOS, of course, provided a 32-bit processor is present in the system. FreeDOS under Microsoft VirtualPC© and WindowsVista© is very slow. The program runs under DOS emulation under several operating systems and has been used successfully together with DOSBox under Windows XP, Windows Vista, ReactOS, OpenSolaris, Linux (SuSE 7.0 to 11.2) DOS emulators (DOSEmu (very fast searching), DOSBox, FreeDOS under VirtualBox / Bochs / QEmu, with DOSBox under FreeBSD, and under OS X with DOSBox and Q(special development stemming from QEmu). However, it is now in the PUBLIC DOMAIN and can be downloaded here. Īll Programms and Data mentioned belowed can be find in the Download Area at the bottom of the page.īecause of its high speed and flexibility, View and Find used to be expensive. In addition, the program works with other material converted into beta code as well. View & Find is a fast, flexible and versatile program to interact with, decode, extract, search and automatically index the beta code files on the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae E and Packard Humanities Institute #5.3 and #7 CD ROMs.