playing old game called 'Disk world' on cd rom

[what..the?]

it won't play as it says it is not compatible with my 64bit windows games at approx 12-15 years old, is there any freeware to allow me to play and install the game, you need to install to play it seems, thanks

[barney15c]

Is it a dos game - then google dosbox, if its an older windows game then you can use compatibility settings , do a right click on the .exe file and goto properties it should give you options to run under compatibility mode ie win95 win98 etc.

[what..the?]

it says it's a 16 bit program I have tried to go into properties and compatibility but it says

this programe INSDOS.EXE cannot run due to incompatibility is 64 bit windows

[what..the?]

maybe dos box then?

[barney15c]

a quick search on wikipedia says it was a dos game so yes dosbox might be your best bet.

[barney15c]

This might be of interest.....

http://www.bigbluecup...dex.php?topic=37175.0

[what..the?]

trying dosbox but it is quite difficult to understand lol

[what..the?]

as the game is on a cd rom I am trying to launch the game and get the opportunity to install it but it says the program with not load with dos??

[Daisho]

Run it through ScummVM

www.scummvm.org

Much less faff

[Daisho]

However it will run quite well with dosbox, Here's a quick guide for setting it up and running. This is assuming that your CD/DVD ROM drive is D:\
Create a folder on you C:\ drive and call it something like DOSPROGS but no longer than 8 characters.
Run Dosbox
at the prompt type MOUNT C C:\DOSPROGS and press return
then type MOUNT D D:\ -t CDROM and press return
Put your Discworld game in your drive and type D:\DISC.BAT and press return and follow onscreen instructions to install it, but I think you might fimd Scummvm easier to use.

[what..the?]

tried with dosbox again no luck but tried scummvm...and success :D

thanks a lot