OilerNut Posted April 24, 2005 Report Share Posted April 24, 2005 I have been trying to get this old DOS program to run in Windows 2000 or XP for years pratically! I have been trying to get everyone to look at it to see if they can get it to work. My parents are still running windows 98 so they can run this solitaire program and I would really like to upgrade them to Windows 2000 for stability reasons. The problem is when you run this program in windows 2000/XP the mouse pointer becomes invisible yet the program still seems to function fine.I have attached the program zip file to this message in hopes that someone out there can figure something out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OilerNut Posted April 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2005 Hmm wont let me attach it so here it is:http://24.83.73.218/solitaire.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topband Posted April 24, 2005 Report Share Posted April 24, 2005 It seems to run in DOSBOX but its asking for a word from the manual, which I haven't got. Try loading DOSBOX yourself and see if it works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OilerNut Posted April 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2005 You can just hit enter 3 times to bypass that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topband Posted April 24, 2005 Report Share Posted April 24, 2005 Oh right, let me try it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topband Posted April 24, 2005 Report Share Posted April 24, 2005 Back to the drawing board, the pointer keeps vanishing in DOSBOX as well, sorry. I'm using Linux, I suppose you could try it in Windows it may work for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OilerNut Posted April 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2005 I've actually tried dosbox without success. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted April 25, 2005 Report Share Posted April 25, 2005 Does the same to me. Could this be a programming problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OilerNut Posted April 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2005 It is a program that is like 15 years old and the company no longer exists so no hope for a patch or anything. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rong Posted April 25, 2005 Report Share Posted April 25, 2005 Why not duel boot with 98. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted April 25, 2005 Report Share Posted April 25, 2005 I once had a car that was similar to this. No matter how much I tried I could not get it to run on Shell diesel. In the end I had to go back to BP petrol. It was perfectly OK after that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r4may Posted April 26, 2005 Report Share Posted April 26, 2005 I once had a car that was similar to this. No matter how much I tried I could not get it to run on Shell diesel. In the end I had to go back to BP petrol. It was perfectly OK after that.bet it didn't run on BP diesel either :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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