Help Playing DOS Game

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I'm trying to play an old pc game, Are You Afraid of the Dark, but am having trouble getting it to run.

I tried Dfend but did not have any luck. I also tried DOSBox, but was not able to get it to work.

I am using Windows 7 64 bit.

Can someone walk me through the setup please.

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Best Answer

Dosbox has a config file which can be modified to make this game work. Check out This link for a better description of how to make this game run properly

Alternatively...

The game works great with 0.72.But first i followed the next steps to play the game:

1)In the game folder created after the installation put the univesa.exe and the vesatest.exe files. 2) Edit the "Afraid.bat" file and after the second line ("@rem run game normally")write univesa.exe and under that vesatest.exe 3)Save changes in the "Afraid.bat" file 4)Start the game using the "Afraid.bat" file (not the Afraidd.bat file, that's only a playable Demo)

These steps are necessery to make it work properly because although the game will be installed normally, the Vesa Driver will not be recognised, so that wenn the game starts the screen is really bad. If for some reason a system can't work with univesa.exe then the vbeplus driver would be a nice alternative.



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How do you play DOS for Beginners?

  • Download your retroware. If you're reading this guide, it's likely that there's a specific game or program you want to run but you may not already have a copy. ...
  • Copy program files. ...
  • Launch DOSBox. ...
  • Install your program. ...
  • Image your floppy disks. ...
  • Run your program. ...
  • Enable IPX. ...
  • Start IPX Server.


    • How do I play old DOS games on Windows 10?

    You can still run DOSBox and your favorite DOS-based games. It's free, and that's always a plus. It runs older games exactly as they should be. Instead of just emulating a game to run on newer systems, DOSBox emulates the original environment so the game runs as smoothly as it did originally.

    Can you still play DOS games?

    Dos doesn't have the same fun gameplay elements as Uno.The game is ultimately bad because of the point system and the numbers-only matching rule, which turns it into a slog. In the test game I played with two of my colleagues, we decided that the winner would be whichever player finished their hand first.


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