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games >> Any way to run Wolf3d in Vista?

by ZHN3ZWlkYQ » Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:26:03 GMT

I've had the original Wolfenstein 3d for quite some time and recently noticed
that it will not run now that I have upgraded to Vista. Is this normal
operation or is there something I can change to get the program to work?
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games >> Any way to run Wolf3d in Vista?

by patio furniture » Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:25:23 GMT



i don't think so because I believe Wolfenstein was a 16 bit game.
could be totally wrong tho..

-Pati

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games >> Any way to run Wolf3d in Vista?

by Andrew Martin » Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:02:54 GMT

Give DOSBox a try. http://www.dosbox.com/

Can confirm that Wolf 3d is working fine here on Vista x64 using the above.

Andrew
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games >> Any way to run Wolf3d in Vista?

by Wolfie » Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:53:04 GMT


Yes, it works perfectly in all versions of Vista and all windows
operating systems if you use the DOSBox. The problem is, that most
people do not understand how to run Wolfenstein 3d and the DOSBox on
Vista. The only site that I have ever found, and it took a lot of
finding!!! that really explains this well is 'Bulletsoftware.com for PC
Games and Software' ( http://www.bulletsoftware.com ) the exact link is
'Shooters, Shooter PC Games at Bulletsoftware.com'
( http://www.bulletsoftware.com/page/shooter.html )

Having read the page at Bulletsoftware.com, to my amazement, I got
wolfenstein 3d running on Vista and I can see that you could run many
DOS games in the same way. But without the valuable information on that
site, I could never have done it.

So, yes, wolfenstein 3d runs perfectly on Vista. Thank you DOSBox at
'DOSBox, a x86 emulator with DOS' ( http://www.dosbox.com ) and thank you
'Shooters, Shooter PC Games at Bulletsoftware.com'
( http://www.bulletsoftware.com/page/shooter.html ) for explaining how to
run wolfenstein 3d on Vista and on the DOSBox.

I thought I'd post this because there are so many wrong answers out
there and it took me so long to find the right ones. Hope this helps!


--
Wolfie
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