Windows NT and Dos games

[earlwood]

Ok, I have gone back into the swing of playing my old sierra games, but whenever I try to play a DOS game, it lags, badly.  It didn't do this on Window ME, so I am pretty sure it is because I am running 2000.  Does anyone have a fix for this (other than going back to 2000)?  I would really hate to have 10 years of game collecting to be wasted because I cannot wait 18 hours to get to King Edward.

On another, completely different, subject, I have just recently purchased a 1998 Epiphone Les Paul Studio, and it is really light, which is a great change of pace from my Peavey T-60.  But I was wondering...are all Studio Epiphone LPs this light?

Thanks in advance.

[DGMacphee]

A lot of older games cause problems with NT, 2000, or XP. The easiest way to overcome this is to use a DOS emulator. I recommend DOSBox.

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/

There are other options that are fiddly, like partioning your hard disk to a dual DOS/Win2000 system, but that's a very time-consuming process just to play a couple of old games.

[BlackMan890]

or i think the best way it to partition you harddrive in two parts, one is 600mb and the other is rest and then put DOS in that one, i did that and i have been playing games since then
because most games for DOS are abandonware and therefore FREE
i found about 6 or 7 abandonware sites and there weree tonss of games
NOTE please try to avoid the p*** games