[access-uk] Running old DOS programs

  • From: Edward Green <edward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 20:38:23 +0000

Hi all,

I quite fancy playing some of the old text-based games that I used to play 
under MS DOS 6.2 and wonder what is required to do this or whether it’s still 
possible.

I don’t have any machines running MS Dos, but I do have Windows machines 
running Windows XP, 7 and 8.  I also have a Mac but I imagine it would be 
easier to do this under Windows.

If this is possible, do I need one of the old DOS screen readers or can the 
games be made to run under Windows perhaps from a command line?I realise that 
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