I just whent out and got my self a coppy of this for $5 because i used to play this game for hours on end when i was about 8 it was my fave game. I installed it and whent to play it and then XP bluescreens and restarts. I tryed it one more time and the same thing happend.
I swaped the compatability of the game to 95 and it still wont work. Any idears on how to get my game up and running ?
Theme Hospital
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Post 2
Theme Hospital = DOS Game = Wont play on WinXP or a fast computer. I built a DOS box (cost me "0....$40 if you count the USB card so I could use my keyboard/mouse) and that plays all my old DOS games perfectly.
Specs Are:
Pentium Pro 200Mhz
S3 Virge 2Mb + Voodoo 2 8Mb
32Mb EDO RAM
10/100 Network Card
USB 2.0
2Gig HDD
48x CD Drive
Post 3
:S problem is i only have one dos game i realy want to play. Would seem like a wast of money to build one just to play Theme Hospital...
Post 4
I've played theme hospital on a windows comp.. I think it was 95 form memory. Loaded it from the dos thing you get into from windows, dos-promt or something? Long time ago...
Post 5
So there is no way i can get it running through XP ?
Post 6
Heres a guide to getting old games to run on XP, may help.
http://www.the-underdogs.org/guidewin.php#a1
Post 7
This site is WELL handy for looking up fixes for this sort of thing - http://www.ntcompatible.com/
Heres Theme Hospital - http://www.ntcompatible.com/cdetail10775.html - looks like some people can get it working, and some people can't. There are some links there to some forum threads relating to getting it working. Recommend you take a look.
Post 8
all i can say is...
dosbox
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/
Post 9
I tried dosbox myself and its not real good.....I got more than 1 dos game I want to play so I can justify $50. I have found with modern computers they are just too damn fast.
Dos programs dont scale properly, when they were made, modern day speeds were thought IMPOSSIBLE, so when you stick it on a modern computer, the poor program doesn't know how to deal with it.
GTA the original is a case in point....start that, crank up the graphics to max, turn on the frame rate limiter and try and do something....ur dude moves about 50 times faster then he should, and when you try and turn you do about 5000 turns a second. Warcraft is another one....with the slowest scroll speed on the largest map, you cant scroll to a middle area, it just goes edge to edge.
Post 10
ive got good experience with dosbox
ultima underworld 1 and 2 and ultima 7 run very well with it
haven't tried any other games but i tweaked dosbox to make them run nice nice
i will admit that its not very user friendly but if you know your stuff, it should work
Post 11
Quote from Wrathlon:
Theme Hospital = DOS Game = Wont play on WinXP or a fast computer.
Wrong. A friend got an image of theme hospital and installed on his 3gig P4 completely fine, WinXP. You can get the shit or updated version.