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Retro PC Game, would it still work?

I played this game eons ago, and I found it for sale on ebay. its System Requirements:

An IBM PC or compatible 80286/10 MHz (or faster); 2 MB RAM; a 3.5" disk drive; an Ad Lib, Pro Audio Spectrum, Roland, or Sound Blaster compatible sound card; a VGA or MCGA compatible video card; a mouse and keyboard; and MS-DOS 5.0 (or higher).

would the game work on a newer compaq pressario with 2gigs of memory, Runs on Windows Vista, has an AMD Athelon 64 x2 duel core processor 32-bit operating system? Or is it too ancient?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    you would need to run it under dos emulation, not the same as command window, dos emulation actually underclocks your processor to something more familiar to the legacy game , just do a search for dos emulator.

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