i believe you classic pc gamers have the urge to play old days games while using the hitech computer you have now. but there was an era between windows and dos, that's the himem and emm386 times when using dos 5 and 6. games those days using the extended memory which windows todays doesn't. it sometimes hold us to play those games with windows either the too much speed problem or the lack of memory problem. i recall my friend talked about emulators to play old pc games, is there anyone knows where to download it in the net? i also heard about amiga emulators, what's amiga? i never heard any console named amiga ... one of my friends told me that amiga is the same as pc.

thanks.

DOSBox is the best DOS Emulator out there in my opinion... It just took me a while to remember the old DOS codes

The DOSBox Website

Check our main site for downloads that might help you. There's also a link here to a page about PC emulators, but after reading through it, I don't think it's going to help you...

Are you sure you need a PC emulator? First of all, if you're using Windows XP, there is a patch to download which can help, here.

Secondly, it often helps with particularly tricky bits in the games to have something like CPUKiller running, to slow down your speed. You can download CPUKiller from here.

Oh, and while you won't need to worry about patches for the first four games (unless you're using floppies rather than the CD anthology or whatever!), you WILL need to install the QfG patches. Check our download section for those.

I hope this helps.

I can't add much more to the information about the emulators... but I can tell you quite a lot about Amiga!

First of all, Amiga is NOT a console - especially not in the sense that Sega or Nintendo are consoles. Furthermore, Amiga is definitely not the same as a PC, though there are certain superficial similarities.

The Amiga computer was a landmark computer of the 1980s, the first personal computer capable of true multimedia work. In 1982, Jay Miner and Dave Morris left Atari to co-found Hi-Toro. Miner was the designer of the Atari VCS (2600), Atari 400, and Atari 800. In 1983, Hi-Toro was renamed Amiga. In 1985, Commodore International purchased the company and released the Amiga 1000. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Amiga became very popular for professional video, graphics, and multimedia work, as well as being a popular home gaming platform.

Unfortunately, serious mismanagement coupled with the rise of Microsoft had almost forced the Amiga and its operating system, AmigaOS, off the market. However, AmigaOS is a popular operating system and is being resurrected.

For much, much, much more information, and links, and FAQs, and more information than you'd ever need on the Amiga - try http://osdata.com/oses/amiga.htm or http://www.amiga.com.

God bless http://odata.com!

wow! those replies really helpfull! thx alot guys!

even though i might not be needing pc emulators for qfg, i believe some games like ufo : enemy unknown will be needing that.

thx for the links too, don't delete them please!

There's no reason to delete them...

I even found them helpful... (besides my own... of course )

There's an emulator for Ultima 7? YAY! I can play this game now!

This is why I'm keeping an older Pentium II with Win 98 SE around. I don't need to deal with all of these programs.

I have a pentium 100, and a whole bunch of 486s. I'm too lazy to switch over to 'em, though.

what's missing is dos 6.0 ... i don't have any copy of that old thing ... even if i do have an old pc to play those games.

i don't believe mswindows98se could run that.