Playing OLD games on NEW hardware

So is there anyway to play the oldies like Indy Car Racing and Nascar 2 (dos based games) on today's new hardware. After upgrading to hardware capable of playing GPL at respectable frame rates it seems that all dos support has vanish. Example: P3-500 with a AGP TNT (nvida) primary video card Voodoo 2 12mb (which doesn't matter) 256mb RAM Monster MX300 Sound Card After much work I finally got Indy Car to recognize the sound card in dos mode, but now there is no video and I am certain that UNIVBE doesn't support anything as new as the TNT. Are we doomed to wait for IndyCar 2000 and Nascar 3 or is there a way to play the classics with modern hardware. HELP!!! Thanks.

i have a feriend who is "on top" of this VERY situation! i know he will stay -in tune- with developments and as SOON as he gets me going i will reply to you! hang in there,,,this is too wide spread a problem and not everyone has given up on the 'classic-till-replaced' sim ICR2 :) Bo

So from the lack of response I take it no one is playing N2 or Indycar anymore.....eh? Bummer...

Try playing under a Win9x DOS window (maximize it to full screen of course :-) Those games work fine with my Matrox Mystique G200 and SB AWE64 in plain DOS and Windows. Jason.

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> So from the lack of response I take it no one is playing N2 or Indycar > anymore.....eh? > Bummer... > >So is there anyway to play the oldies like Indy Car Racing and Nascar 2 (dos > >based games) on today's new hardware. After upgrading to hardware capable of > >playing GPL at respectable frame rates it seems that all dos support has vanish. > >HELP!!! Thanks.

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Sinjin, For Nascar, N99 has a Win95 executable - but at the cost of multiplayer. I never got N2 to work properly on a setup similar to your own, don't race online, and made the upgrade - It also includes the trucks, and through the PITS website you can get the patches to run it as a touring car sim - which made it worth the upgrade for me. N99 will support your Voodoo 2, but would have to run in software mode on the TNT. For indycar - ICR1 or ICR2? If ICR2 - check Sierra's website for the patch to convert the DOS game to the Win95 version. It has no 3d acceleration through windows (and only Rendition is available in DOS), but since it was written in the day of the 486, will scream along very nicely on a modern system.

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> So from the lack of response I take it no one is playing N2 or Indycar > anymore.....eh? > Bummer... > >So is there anyway to play the oldies like Indy Car Racing and Nascar 2

(dos > >based games) on today's new hardware. After upgrading to hardware capable of > >playing GPL at respectable frame rates it seems that all dos support has vanish.

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> >Example: > >P3-500 with a AGP TNT (nvida) primary video card > >Voodoo 2 12mb (which doesn't matter) > >256mb RAM > >Monster MX300 Sound Card > >After much work I finally got Indy Car to recognize the sound card in dos

mode, > >but now there is no video and I am certain that UNIVBE doesn't support anything > >as new as the TNT. > >Are we doomed to wait for IndyCar 2000 and Nascar 3 or is there a way to play > >the classics with modern hardware. > >HELP!!! Thanks.

If you're talking ICR2, you can patch it to the Win95 version. (It was the only way to make it work with my soundcard on one computer. Doesn't sound as good, IMHO, but it works) I have no problem making the DOS version of the NR1999 executable work on either computer. I imagine that N2 would work as well. -- Kirk Lane Tempe, AZ ICQ: 28171652 RMRL #119 >So is there anyway to play the oldies like Indy Car Racing and Nascar 2 (dos >based games) on today's new hardware. After upgrading to hardware capable of >playing GPL at respectable frame rates it seems that all dos support has vanish. >Example: >P3-500 with a AGP TNT (nvida) primary video card >Voodoo 2 12mb (which doesn't matter) >256mb RAM >Monster MX300 Sound Card >After much work I finally got Indy Car to recognize the sound card in dos mode, >but now there is no video and I am certain that UNIVBE doesn't support anything >as new as the TNT. >Are we doomed to wait for IndyCar 2000 and Nascar 3 or is there a way to play >the classics with modern hardware. >HELP!!! Thanks.