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Old School Games on Vista

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 – running time 03:56
Roger Chang answers a viewer email about playing old floppy disk games on Vista.

Watch the rest of this episode of Tekzilla here.

Highlights
video game ( 0:36, 0:36 ) Symbian ( 3:31, 3:31 ) floppies ( 1:17, 2:13, 1:17, 2:13 ) optical discs ( 2:29, 2:29 ) video game ( 0:36, 0:36 ) Symbian ( 3:31, 3:31 ) floppies ( 1:17, 2:13, 1:17, 2:13 ) optical discs ( 2:29, 2:29 )

Automatically Generated Transcript(may not be 100% accurate) ( more )

" Yeah it's actually Richard PC gaming listen up area and Tennessee broke in with this question. About some called micro pros spectrum -- that camera has multiple disks. I'd like to somehow get that installation -- convert it to a CD I can install and play. I'm more modern machines. They -- and just copying that this content through CD and turn -- the dot with the program thinks it's still on flood event needs this to inserted after this one runs. Who keeps looking pretty a drive and and yes. Well apparently figured weaker it is under Roger since he's caught in a video game time -- only playing games that came out early nineties."

" It's pretty much trip that's. Pressure Dahlia I didn't really invest in new hardware for the longest -- yes what's the skinny on our right so would give any needs to do is actually download and awesome application. I actually I have one of the games you mentioned earlier email I bought the steady yard sale for ten bucks nine. And it. No actually bought this. Six years ago so it's not an I was not going to do with answering this question. I don't originally annuals. How did this. As the warranty information as well as the little preference card. So you know it's a little bit of PC gaming member -- Yes of the floppies isn't completely agree plastic coasters. You are still up there eight. He's going to have to download a really awesome application con DOS box -- dot spot is actually written for expressed purpose. For people who have newer machines who have essentially windows running on a PC and want to play older DOS games. Visit C installed everything into this DOS games that previously I installed this has everything you need. All the need to do now is to go to my C drive in that DOS box to use Z fifteen. And news. All the thousand needed since I don't remember what -- too tight and to do -- on the sixties. And type at fifteenth. Who English. Crack the copy protection in -- register -- type of particularly. That the back in the day when copying floppies as. It was. With the pain for a lot of people. So to make it easier they would let people copy but to make sure you actually owned it you have to go through the manual and pundits -- train yes they say. This -- we did back British don't age. And later being -- the optical discs. So up aircraft forward to before we're too. -- friendship. That relates to -- So hopefully oh there goes. -- and so there I have the game running and it's quick start to make in the that this game. It's running it's running it's running. So quick command command command. These -- people there."

" Parents. I haven't played this game awhile. So there -- eight as you can saving stuff but actually it's kind of chunky but you can it adjusts the frame rate on it. To a speed of course we'll that's master's votes he needed to. For the most part -- run pretty well there is a list that they thought oxide that indicates all the games that stuff in that will not run on it but for the most part roughly ninety plus percent of them so. He should have any problems now if you wanna run something like do monkey island games from Lucas arts check so project and this company and Symbian dot org. As a great interface so essentially you take all the this that you had to put on their automatically pays them right through the application no problem that is so -- Well it can't thank -- this home."

" Yeah it's actually Richard PC gaming listen up area and Tennessee broke in with this question. About some called micro pros spectrum -- that camera has multiple disks. I'd like to somehow get that installation -- convert it to a CD I can install and play. I'm more modern machines. They -- and just copying that this content through CD and turn -- the dot with the program thinks it's still on flood event needs this to inserted after this one runs. Who keeps looking pretty a drive and and yes. Well apparently figured weaker it is under Roger since he's caught in a video game time -- only playing games that came out early nineties."

" It's pretty much trip that's. Pressure Dahlia I didn't really invest in new hardware for the longest -- yes what's the skinny on our right so would give any needs to do is actually download and awesome application. I actually I have one of the games you mentioned earlier email I bought the steady yard sale for ten bucks nine. And it. No actually bought this. Six years ago so it's not an I was not going to do with answering this question. I don't originally annuals. How did this. As the warranty information as well as the little preference card. So you know it's a little bit of PC gaming member -- Yes of the floppies isn't completely agree plastic coasters. You are still up there eight. He's going to have to download a really awesome application con DOS box -- dot spot is actually written for expressed purpose. For people who have newer machines who have essentially windows running on a PC and want to play older DOS games. Visit C installed everything into this DOS games that previously I installed this has everything you need. All the need to do now is to go to my C drive in that DOS box to use Z fifteen. And news. All the thousand needed since I don't remember what -- too tight and to do -- on the sixties. And type at fifteenth. Who English. Crack the copy protection in -- register -- type of particularly. That the back in the day when copying floppies as. It was. With the pain for a lot of people. So to make it easier they would let people copy but to make sure you actually owned it you have to go through the manual and pundits -- train yes they say. This -- we did back British don't age. And later being -- the optical discs. So up aircraft forward to before we're too. -- friendship. That relates to -- So hopefully oh there goes. -- and so there I have the game running and it's quick start to make in the that this game. It's running it's running it's running. So quick command command command. These -- people there."

" Parents. I haven't played this game awhile. So there -- eight as you can saving stuff but actually it's kind of chunky but you can it adjusts the frame rate on it. To a speed of course we'll that's master's votes he needed to. For the most part -- run pretty well there is a list that they thought oxide that indicates all the games that stuff in that will not run on it but for the most part roughly ninety plus percent of them so. He should have any problems now if you wanna run something like do monkey island games from Lucas arts check so project and this company and Symbian dot org. As a great interface so essentially you take all the this that you had to put on their automatically pays them right through the application no problem that is so -- Well it can't thank -- this home."