need help booting into DOS mode

[03vert]

Hey i just bought a game from ramennoodles (great trader) and it needs to be run in dos mode. now i cant figure out how to boot into dos mode to save my life the game's warcraft 2 and thanx for any help you can provide. oh yea 'noodles gimme the link to you'r feedback if you can, thanx.

[Mango]

when you start your machine, hit F8 after it loads the bios, right before the windows screan appears. Select boot to command line or dos prompt. Or, if your in windows, go to Start --> Run --> enter " cmd " (with no quotes)to get a dos prompt.

[sharpshooter1286]

why do u need to run dos for WC2? what kind of windows do u have?

[03vert]

i have xp. well maybe i dont need to run it in dos but the cd says "ms-dos & macintosh cd-rom" but when i put the game in and click on play the screen goes black like its going into a game and then it says some stuff in computer jargon up at the top left and it goes back to the screen with the play button. my dad just sudjested that i run it in msdos...

[sharpshooter1286]

huh cant help u then sry

[MarkM]

Originally posted by 03vert
i have xp.

Well you don't have DOS then there is a command prompt to take you to C:/ but although the screen has the "appearence" of a DOS screen it isn't really there within XP not a true form anyway...Boot up of the PC may well be DOS but then since it is the Motherboard Bios not the OS....
To get to the command prompt within XP you go start>all programs>accessories>command prompt

[03vert]

say wha?ok i got the command prompt up so where do i go from there?

[MarkM]

Originally posted by 03vert
say wha?ok i got the command prompt up so where do i go from there?

How the hell would I know it isn't my game I'm trying to play Any pc game past pinball I'm lost

[03vert]

ha haha. i can just imagine my gym teacher sayin that to me... anyways all i got was the disk. thats it. no comprenday manualo.

[MarkM]

Well ok from what I remember about DOS....at the c:/ type cd(space)a: hit return you should now be at the a:/ prompt then type run it might work?....I just tried that but as i don't have a disk in the a drive it just returned to c:/Documents and Settings\Mark but you are where you wanted to be now so it's down you Gunga Din.

[Tunaman]

are we talking floppy disk or cdrom?
Type cd\
type d: (or A: if its a floppy)
type dir/p
Can you see what is on the disc?
look for the exe file
maybe a setup file
or install

[03vert]

ill try it but a little while ago (when i lived in england too) i had this topgun game and it had to be run in dos and on the cd case it had a code that you could type in to get it to run. maybe thats the deal with this one... i dunno but thanx anyways.