caracodon

XP has no dos and while many old dos games will run on it you often have to run with no sound while others wont rua at all. first try DOSBOX a freeware dos emulator for XP http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1 this neat litte prog not only runs the games but emulates several sound cards as well ( i use soundblaster16 for best results) so you get sound from onboard soundcards found on most modern boards. it will even run games of a CD it saved me a lot of frustration and enabled me enjoy some of my old sofware and all those abandonware games now available on the net

yes it is im running warlods deluxe on a and 2400 with windows XP. this game had problems from the start as it would not run on anything faster than a P166. the publisher SSG never patched it (i think the programmer had defected) a patch was released by an avid fan but only works up to windows me. the solution DOSBOX http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1 this fantastic freeware prog emulates a 386 dos processor and when push comes to shove Warlords deluxe is a dos program read the help file for dosbox but here is what i did fist make a directory warlords2 for example on c: drive in dosbox type mount c c:\warlords2.... this will mount c:\warlords2 as your c drive in dosbox then type mount d x:\ .......... were x is the letter assigned to your cd drive now type x: ........were x is the letter assigned to your cd drive those familar with dos will now be away but if not typing dir (press return) will bing up the directory contents of the CD to install the game type install (press return)the game will now install into c:\warlords2 directory type cd:\ to return to d: prompt type c: to switch to dosbox c: drive (which is in fact the warlords2 directory on your hard drive} now type war2 press return and your in set sound to soundblaster16 as this works fine with most on mainboard soundcards. hope this helps