K. Thank you.

The main problem with Windows XP is that DOS emulation is terrible. A game that runs at full speed under DOSBox will in many cases feel like slow motion in Windows XP. This "problem" depends on the way the game is coded, but why use WinXP when DosBox gives you a complete "shielded" enviroment (AFAIK there's no way an old DOS virus or a faulty/hacked program can fry you harddrive with dosbox).

The main reason you would use XP instead of DosBox is so that you don't have to do all the mounting and drive changing and directory searching every time you want to play the game.

that why some people made frontend. which stores the settings and modifies dosbox.conf for you when decide play game X

True. But since front-ends dont come standard with DosBox, people have to go hunting for them and figuring out how to use them.
I never said getting games to run in pure XP is better. It's just an alternative.

For the lazy ones (those that don't want to type too much, like me :D ): get dosbox and d-fend; d-fend is a nice graphic user interface for dosbox.

Got a lot of old games working under XP this way, like 99%

i have xp and try your steps....now a big old game :kosta: transport tycoon deluxe work at me again. THANKS MAN

Dfend is on the DosBox site so finding a frontend isn't all that hard.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Smith @ Oct 29 2005, 07:02 AM) [snapback]173796[/snapback]</div>try this: http://www.openttd.org/
It's open source port of Transport Tycoon Deluxe with added possibility to play online! :)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Nikson @ Oct 26 2005, 12:04 AM) [snapback]172330[/snapback]</div>You can always set up your dosbox.conf in the [ autoexec ] part. You'll do it only once and it will work every time you run DosBox.

I got special directory on my hdd for old games which is mounted automaticly by dosbox.conf at startup. Later i need to change dirs, but it's how DOS worked.This is something that shouldn't change in my opinion.