rec.autos.simulators

Has anyone been able to get the original NASCAR game to run under NT 4.0?  If
so, please post instructions on doing so.  Thanks!

Visit Spyder's NASCAR Racing web page
http://www.racesimcentral.net/~spyder/nascar.html

--Jim

I have my computer set up with a boot option when I power on.  I can
boot straight to dos or choose to load NT.  It works fine for me.

Later,

Neal

Um... he was refering to running N2 from within NT 4.0, not rebooting to
DOS.

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http://ebusch.akorn.net

And no you didn't answer the question my friend, that guy asked if you can
run in in NT, not DOS

---Jim

NB: No, it doesn't; don't ask about how to do it. What kyer is doing is
booting to DOS and then running the game. The fact that NT4.0 happens to
be on the machine is utterly irrelevant. It's still DOS that you are
booting to.

Actually he was refering to Nascar1 from within NT, but nevertheless,
you can't do either.

I thought he did answer the question.

Nope.  He suggested booting to DOS, while the original question was whether
you could play N2 from within WinNT 4.0 (like you can in a Win95
full-screen DOS Box), but it just isn't possible.

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http://ebusch.akorn.net

Exactly, I asked some time ago about N2 and ICR2 and GP2 in NT 4.0, and
never got a clear reply. Any real NT user has thier drive formatted
NTFS, so dual boot is not an option. I still haven't found out if any of
these games will work well in NT 4.0, but if anyone has an answer,
please let me know.

Craig Marcho
http://members.aol.com/cmarcho/

As for "real users" and NTFS, NTFS is better than any of the FAT
flavors, but if it prevents one from using the computer for something
they'd like to do, it don't sound so smart to me. NTFS is on a partition
by partition basis anyway. One could have multiple partitions on a
single fixed disk and run NTFS on one and FAT/vFAT on another (and
possibly ext2fs on another) and multi-boot.

---Jim

: Exactly, I asked some time ago about N2 and ICR2 and GP2 in NT 4.0, and
: never got a clear reply. Any real NT user has thier drive formatted
: NTFS, so dual boot is not an option. I still haven't found out if any of
: these games will work well in NT 4.0, but if anyone has an answer,
: please let me know.

No, they will not.  All three of these access hardware directly, NT does
not have a means of allowing this.

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**************************** Michael E. Carver *************************
     Upside out, or inside down...False alarm the only game in town.

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