TIE Fighter- Can you play on XP

[Paul]

I was given TIE fighter disc, manual, and a joystick. My question is this, does anyone know if you can play this on an XP operating system? I looked through the old threads and didn't see this discussed before. Any help would be appreciated as I have never played this classic game before.-Grand Moff Conway

[Mad78]

I managed to install it. If i remember well I used the DOS-Box emulator to make it play. I suggest you run a google search to see what fan sites say.

[Guest JediIgor]

First off, if it's the Windows disc (hook us up) it will work just fine, if it's a DOS disc, then you may run into some problems (I had trouble actually getting it to run after installing it). If compatibility mode fails, you can always use DOSBox!

 

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net

 

Actually the cool thing about it is that you can even run TIE Fighter in Linux (hehe).. I for one am having a good game of Ascendancy thanks to DOSBox (on Linux of course).

 

Good luck, and hope your TIE Fighter works!

[SOCL]

I think this was asked in another thread, and Evaders provided a link to a patch that fixed the problem so the game works on XP. Of course, it's for the Windows 95/98 version of the game.

[Paul]

My disc must be DOS as it says IBM CD-ROM and Compatibles. How does DOSbox work Igor? Just wondering. -Grand Moff Conway