Aww Man! My game won't work!

[hav0c]

Well I just downloaded a cool shareware game that is very old! Well it being very old it gives me "Runtime error 200 at 0E3C:0091". I have heard that some older games can't run on new processors? If this is true, is there a way to get it to run?

[wedor]

Do a search for a prgram called "moslo" it may help.

[Dputiger]

If this is a PC game, there's no reason it won't run, though we may have to do some tricky work to get your machine into the right DOS compatibility mode.

Unlike the Mac chips, which are non-compatible with their legacy software, the x86 design has not fundamentally changed in twenty years. The chip itself can run any DOS program ever written.

[seti]

It's true, some older games don't run on new cpu's. I can't give a technical explanation why...but I belive it's just a timing issue, and the speed and power of modern cpu's introduces some glitches( includeing runtime errors) in older games.

I had the same problem with space quest 6. I used a program called CPUkiller (http://web.tiscalinet.it/robyrobo/) to slow my system down. I was then able to get past the glitch, and then play the rest of the game without the program.

Good luck!

[This message has been edited by seti (edited 01-15-2001).]

[Warthog]

hehe that's kinda funny...you had to slow your system down http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif. Usually you don't hear that too much.

Warthog

[This message has been edited by Warthog (edited 01-16-2001).]

[hav0c]

Woo! moslo worked.. Thanks!

[ablang]

What's Moslo supposed to do?