The original 'Need For Speed' from 1995...

[N.J.]

For those who do:

How do you run it (an old MS DOS game) on your current pc?

I have an ageing P3 933 with XP Pro...

...Is it still possible to run it on a current machine (if so, how)



Thanks in advance.

[AlienDB7]

I tried running it under WinME (Cel2 566 @ 850) before, it worked except for the sound. But then, I disabled the DOS driver of my aureal vortex 2 so that was expected. Have yet to try it on win 2k but most likely it won't work. My best bet is, you can just burn a freedos boot cd and run the game on a FAT/FAT32 partition.

[No.1]

Can somebody host the file so i can put it on my old PII computer

[N.J.]

Originally Posted by thenumber1 Can somebody host the file so i can put it on my old PII computer

How about just trying the 3mb demo and seeing if that one works first.

I saw the demo the other night at www.gamespot.com.


p.s

At 3mb, be careful - it seems like a massive download.
I can see this is going to take ages to download this one!

[N.J.]

Originally Posted by AlienDB7 I tried running it under WinME (Cel2 566 @ 850) before, it worked except for the sound. But then, I disabled the DOS driver of my aureal vortex 2 so that was expected. Have yet to try it on win 2k but most likely it won't work. My best bet is, you can just burn a freedos boot cd and run the game on a FAT/FAT32 partition.

You sound like quite a 'computer whiz' AlienDB7

[hwe]

No, its not on my computer. Never have been either, because I only played it on Playstation.

[N.J.]

Originally Posted by hwe No, its not on my computer. Never have been either, because I only played it on Playstation.

You should grab the 3mb demo and have a go at it again on your pc


p.s

I think its amazing -hard to believe- that almost 10 years since the original Need For Speed game came out, I am still interested in linking up a couple of pc's and taking on someone at one of the open road courses with the '95 Porsche 911 (993) Carrera!

I remember some time back then -when I was still at school :roll: - trying to hook it up on-line with a friend who also had it...we couldn't quite get it going. We could use the live chat option ok within the game, but never tried to do it again...which was a shame

However, another friend from school had 2 pc's at this house (he used to play head-to-head games against his little brother).

One day I persuaded him to get 'The Need For Speed' linked up so I could take one of them on. It was no competition, I thrashed both of them (and this is without the wheel/pedals I had at home...I've still got them by the way) I must admit, they were into those games like command and conquer which didn't do much for me. I've always prefered simulators (both Flight & Car)

I'm 'fair dinkum' though, I would -still!- love to link up the original and take someone on, amazingly...I'd be more eager to take someone on with the original 1995 version than the 2000 NFS - Porsche Unleashed!

The reason why I feel this way is that I reckon the original open road tracks were a lot better than anything ever done since in the series + the handling of the cars, it was the perfect balance... even without the amazing graphics of Porsche Unleashed.

(If I had my way, EA would do a remake of the original, keep the same tracks, but update a few of the cars + add up-to-date graphics and make the AI a bit better - I'd be happy with that!)






In other words, if I had to pick one game from everything I've ever had and that includes games like; Half-life, Medal Of Honour, FS 2002 Pro, Lomac, all the other NFS's etc, etc, I think I'd be happy to take my old Pentium 120, with 64 mb of ram and play the original on, and on, and on...

[AlienDB7]

The easiest way is to spend $10-15 to buy an old 486 or pentium. That way you can play all the old games for sure!