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Author Message Elaine Benton (Solo777) Solitaire Player Username: Solo777 Post Number: 20 Registered: 1-2003 Posted on Friday, July 07, 2006 - 4:17 pm:    Has anyone had trouble with MS-DOS games on Windows XP that will Not play because of needing a VESA driver? Does anyone know how to setup DOS games on Windows XP? Sorry. Thanks in advance for the help and the time. I appologize if this in not the right place to post this. Gregg Seelhoff (Seelhoff) Master Solitaire Player Username: Seelhoff Post Number: 242 Registered: 1-2003 Posted on Saturday, July 08, 2006 - 12:22 pm:    >Has anyone had trouble with MS-DOS games on Windows XP that will Not play because of needing a VESA driver? You may need to find a VESA driver for your card, which may not be easy to do. There used to be a generic driver (from SciTech?) that worked on most video cards of the time. A web search turned up the following page which may (or may not ) help: http://www.elys.com/software/vesa/ >Does anyone know how to setup DOS games on Windows XP? An alternative is to try DOSBox, a DOS emulator that (according to the web site) supports VESA: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net I have not (yet) tried DOSBox, so this is not exactly a recommendation. Results are not guaranteed. Good luck. Mike Bailin (Mikeb) Advanced Solitaire Player Username: Mikeb Post Number: 95 Registered: 3-2003 Posted on Sunday, July 09, 2006 - 9:20 am:    I was very impressed with the supposed ability of Dosbox to successful run even very demanding DOS games etc. under XP. Be prepared, though, it's no picnic -- you have to in effect set up a virtual drive for each folder/directory that the game uses. So I abandoned it (and most of my DOS games) fairly quickly afterwards. It would be a thousand times better if it had a good GUI to assist with the setup process. Admittedly, it's been a couple of years since I last looked at it -- it was strictly command-line then (and ghastly command lines, at that), but may have come a long way in upgraded versions since then.