Hi all!

I know this might not be something many are interested, but you never know :)

I'm quite into DOS games and purchase almost every new DOS(Box) based release from GOG.com. I then spend a bit of time trying to get these games to work on a real DOS machine (In my case a Pentium which can be slowed down to behave like a 386DX or 486DX2).

Strike Commander seems quite simply. It mounts C with a few files on it and an ISO image as D.

What's odd however is I couldn't edit or burn that ISO image at all! Any ideas?

However I had no problems copying the files from within that ISO from within DOSBox into another folder. Then from Windows burn those files onto a CD.

That CD works flawless. Run INSTALL.EXE to choose installation folder on C and configure all the Sound Cards.

Now I'm trying to figure out if I can get this game to run without having the CD. So basically have all the large files (moves and sound files) on C.

Has anyone played around with this?

EDIT:

Ok I tried this:

copy all .tre (except liltre.tre, which is already there)
copy all .pak (except arena.pak, which is already there)

And it seems to work without the CD in the drive.

Please tell me what utility you use to slow a Pentium down to accommodate older games like Strike Commander and A-10 Tank Killer.
I am in the process of building a legacy PC but I can't seem to locate hardware older than a Pentium II, so I may need this.

Wingnut

Sorry for not replying earlier.

Is there a way to get notifications when a thread receives updates? I know you can add it to your favourites, but there are too many that I want to get alerts on.

Anyway, back to your question.

They short answer, without boring you with technical details, is that a Pentium II is the wrong machine for this. You want a standard Pentium or Pentium MMX, AMD K6. The key word to look for is Socket 7 or Super Socket 7.

These have options in the BIOS for L1 and L2 cache. For L1 you can also use software tools such as CPUCACHE or SETMUL.