Older Games On Floppy's?

[Max_Payne]

Hey guys and gals!

Well i have a quick question for all of ya!:thumbs:

I have been collecting DOS base games now for quit some time.. and have a certain few that i would like to transfer over to my older system.

My dad and i built up a older system that runs like mint, that has windows 95 on it. My only concern is this:

How do i apply a exe. file, to multiple floppy disks? I have tried everything ... including some file splitters out their. Nothing seems to work.:angry:

Any advice would be great

PEACE

Mikey :cheers:

 

[Asus]

winrar?

/shrug

 

[VirusType2]

Hey guys and gals!

Well i have a quick question for all of ya!:thumbs:

I have been collecting DOS base games now for quit some time.. and have a certain few that i would like to transfer over to my older system.

My dad and i built up a older system that runs like mint, that has windows 95 on it. My only concern is this:

How do i apply a exe. file, to multiple floppy disks? I have tried everything ... including some file splitters out their. Nothing seems to work.:angry:

Any advice would be great

PEACE

Mikey :cheers:

That sounds kind of difficult. You would probably have to make identical copies of the retail discs. So if a game spanned 3 floppies, it would be looking for specific files on each floppy, and you would need to replicate this.

why don't you just run them from a hard drive, or put all of them on one CD rom.?

CD rom drives must be cheap - A samsung DVD burner with lightscribe is down to $32.

 

[Max_Payne]

Its actually a old laptop i own, it does not have a cd-drive. lolz
I know its a akward situation, i guess ill have leave it for now.

Thanks for the input guys!

PEACE

Mikey:thumbs:

 

[gweedodogg69]

Does it have an ethernet adaptor? If not buy a PCMCIA one and just transfer the files to the laptop's hard drive via the network. I only have experience with Windows98 on transferring files not 95.

 

[No Limit]

What ports do you have on the lap top? USB? Serial? Printer?

And have you actually tried splitting the file using winrar? In theory it should work since winrar splits the binary information down, it has nothing to do with file format.

 

[Qonfused]

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=124959

 

[MRG]

Please refer to my guild on how to do exactly what you are wanting to do. I submitted it here, but I think it was too far back and so it was deleted. I submitted it, but can no longer find it.

(I'm Sorry in advance to all Admins about the link to another site I post on)

http://thegamerssyndicate.com/PHP-Nuke/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=49

I hope this helps. You don't have to use a CD is you don't want to.

-MRG

 

[Asus]

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=124959

Older games on Floppy's gameboy or what? and who is Floppy?
D:

 

[Max_Payne]

ahah yeah im trying to figure it out too lol

PEACE

Mikey:cheers:

 

[MRG]

Hey now! Show some respect!

Old Dos games were the best. Without them, none of you "newer" gamers that think you're old skool, but really arn't, wouldn't be where you are today game wise if not for Dos Games. :cheers:

-MRG

 

[VirusType2]

HJsplit might be what you are looking for. Haven't tried it myself. It's free.

 

[lePobz]

Just stream it down a serial cable using HyperTerminal. It has file transfer, and theres no compatibility issues between ye olde HT and the newer ones. Even the oldest of the old computers have com ports.