N99: DOS?

Hi All... Bought and installed N99. However, I'm not convinced I've got a "pure DOS" enviornment to run it in. I couldn't find a DOS install.exe file on the CD to launch the install under DOS... so had to install thru Win95. It appears that I have to start the sim thru Win95, but it does seem to go to a DOS screen before the game begins. However, have I missed something? Is there a way to install/run from DOS? Though it runs smooth enough on my system, there does seem to be a bit of s slowdown at times that is NOT present on my pure-DOS N2/BGN sim. Any input? Thanks... Andre Ming

Who's still making DOS games?

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> Hi All... > Bought and installed N99. However, I'm not convinced I've got a "pure > DOS" enviornment to run it in. I couldn't find a DOS install.exe file on > the CD to launch the install under DOS... so had to install thru Win95. > It appears that I have to start the sim thru Win95, but it does seem to > go to a DOS screen before the game begins. However, have I missed > something? Is there a way to install/run from DOS? > Though it runs smooth enough on my system, there does seem to be a bit > of s slowdown at times that is NOT present on my pure-DOS N2/BGN sim. > Any input? > Thanks... > Andre Ming

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>Hi All... >Bought and installed N99. However, I'm not convinced I've got a "pure >DOS" enviornment to run it in. I couldn't find a DOS install.exe file on >the CD to launch the install under DOS... so had to install thru Win95. >It appears that I have to start the sim thru Win95, but it does seem to >go to a DOS screen before the game begins. However, have I missed >something? Is there a way to install/run from DOS?

Apparently you can't run an install program from DOS, but from the Win95 installation, you can install the DOS .exe's (which is what I did). The DOS .exe's are the only way to get multiplayer right now anyway. Don Hancock "Gunner" ICQ 24045680

> Who's still making DOS games? In my post, I was talking about Nascar 1999 (reffered to as N99) by Sierra/Papyrus. It uses the game engine from Nascar Racing 2 (i.e. N2). The later could be operated in a pure DOS envirornment, which meant that you weren't tied to many of the background programs of Win95 that have an impact on game speed. Anyrate, N99 seems to be installable from Win95, but I'd prefer a pure DOS installation. Since my above post to RAS, I think I've figured out what to do to install from pure DOS. So, I will wipe N99 from my hard drive, and reinstall thru DOS when I have time. Andre Ming