Can Allied General be played under DOS?

[sctvguy1]

I have Panzer General 1.2, and also Allied General. I seemed to remember
that Allied General needed Windows 3.1, but can it be installed and
played under DOS? I have PC-DOS 7. If not, then I have Win98 on an old
machine.

[Vincenzo Beretta]

Have you tried DosBox? It is a DOS emulator built for this kind of activities. Some Front Ends come with the basic emulator already incorporated. I do use D-Fend Reloaded and I'm quite happy.

Be warned that a minority of games do not work under a 64-bit environment - no matter what. Of course to me it happened with Great Naval Battles: North Atlantic - one of my favourite games ever. But usually you will not find any problems.

[smr]

On 8/5/14, 10:00 AM, Vincenzo Beretta wrote:
> Have you tried DosBox? It is a DOS emulator built for this kind of activities. Some Front Ends come with the basic emulator already incorporated. I do use D-Fend Reloaded and I'm quite happy.
>
> Be warned that a minority of games do not work under a 64-bit environment - no matter what. Of course to me it happened with Great Naval Battles: North Atlantic - one of my favourite games ever. But usually you will not find any problems.

If he has access to a modern machine, just skip all this nonsense and
get Panzer General Forever for free. The whole of Allied General has
been ported over to it as well as a scary amount of other content and
it's a really solid little package.

Or just get Panzer Korps.

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smr

[sctvguy1]

I have modern laptops running Scientific Linux, just have an old Toshiba
laptop with a 4.3gig hdd, a cd-rom, and a floppy drive, running PC-DOS/
Win98, and an old eMachine AMD K6-500 running W98.
I also have Pacific General along with the original Panzer General.
Allied General said it would run under Win 3.1, so I just wondered if it
would run under pure DOS.

[smr]

Ah, gotcha. But no, it won't, it was one of the first native Win95 games
so it relies on libraries from that system that just don't exist in DOS.
You should be able to get it going on that Win98 box, though.

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smr

[sctvguy1]

Thanks, smr. Yes, I was afraid that Allied, along with Pacific General
were requiring Windows 95/98. I got it installed on my old Win98 Toshiba
laptop, but I was just wondering how to keep it even more simple with
pure DOS. Strangely, I cannot get "Jutland" to go on the W98 box, as it
is strictly for DOS. I got "The Great War-1914-1918" on four floppies
and it runs under W98, even though it is pure DOS.

[smr]

I'm curious as to why you're tied to such old systems, as well as why
you'd stick with just DOS if you could (as it sounds like that's what
you'd do).

No snark or attack here, just genuine curiosity.

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smr

[sctvguy1]

On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 10:41:19 -0500, smr wrote:


> I'm curious as to why you're tied to such old systems, as well as why
> you'd stick with just DOS if you could (as it sounds like that's what
> you'd do).
>
> No snark or attack here, just genuine curiosity.

I run Scientific Linux 6.5 on all my main laptops. DOS, or Win98 was
pulled out of the old box and installed on some very old hardware in
order to play a crap load of old games from the past!
I had a copy, in the box, of both PC-DOS 7 and a full install disk of
W98. I put them on two old computers for the hell of it.
I do not run any modern Windows software, so I needed the old stuff
strictly for the games.
BTW, have you ever played "Jutland"? I remember it being very detailed
for the time, like "Great Naval Battles". Looking forward to installing
my "Tycoon" games and the old "SimCity" games!

[smr]

Sounds good. Have at 'em, my man.

I vaguely recall Jutland, and have fond memories of Great Naval Battles
(though I sucked, hard, at that game).

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smr