I want to play Dust : A tale of wired west On Windows 7 :(

[Osama]

Hi everybody
I have this old 1995 Cyberflix game called "Dust: A tale of the Wired West" and it's like my favorite game of all time! On windows 7 it'll install just fine (most of the time) but it won't play!

I tried doing all sorts of things with the Compatibility tab of the properties, but nothing works. All it does is like start up, but never load. It just freezes.

Please, I desperately need your help in playing this game! I love this game! Please help me!

Thanks for any help

 

[tom982]

Hello Osama and welcome to the forums

That game was built for use on Windows 95 and won't work in Windows 7.

You can try disabling UAC and seeing if that has any effect:

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/48893-user-account-control-uac.html

If not, unless you want to set up a Windows 95 virtual machine, it can't be done Sorry!

Tom

 

[Patonb]

Actually, youre sorta right. Try usig dosbox
DOSBox, an x86 emulator with DOS

Its been designed to do this sorta thing.

 

[tom982]

Actually, youre sorta right. Try usig dosbox
DOSBox, an x86 emulator with DOS

Its been designed to do this sorta thing.

Thanks for correcting me +rep

 

[Patonb]

Actually, youre sorta right. Try usig dosbox
DOSBox, an x86 emulator with DOS

Its been designed to do this sorta thing.

Thanks for correcting me +rep

Its you just dont need the vm machine.. but its basically the same thing.

Heres a tut to try getting it going: http://forums.techarena.in/guides-tutorials/1120720.htm

 

[tom982]

Actually, youre sorta right. Try usig dosbox
DOSBox, an x86 emulator with DOS

Its been designed to do this sorta thing.

Thanks for correcting me +rep

Its you just dont need the vm machine.. but its basically the same thing.

Heres a tut to try getting it going: DOSBox Guide For Newbies - Guides & Tutorials

Thanks, I've bookmarked the link in case I need it in the future