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As Ohgr has stated, there is a notable difference between the Command Prompt (Which is the application accessed through the Start menu, CMD.EXE, and the "Safe Mode with Command Prompt" startup option) and an actual copy of DOS -- the Command Prompt included in NT-based operating systems is actually better viewed as a command interpreter because many DOS applications cannot run on it because of security restrictions and things that can be best described as environmental shortcomings.

 

As Ohgr has also said (Sort of), Windows XP does not have DOS support like the good old Windows 98 "Reboot to Command Prompt" option -- no Microsoft OS past Windows 98, and certainly no OS based upon Windows NT has it. You'll have to get a version of DOS and dual-boot it. If you only have one partition with the NTFS filesystem and no unpartitioned space on your hard drive, you'll have to use a utility like BootIt NG to resize your lone partition and devote the new free space on your hard drive to a FAT partition capable of storing the game. If you have some unpartitioned space and you believe that it is large enough to hold the game, create a FAT partition and move on -- if you do not meet the latter condition, then you'll have to resize whatever partition preceeds that valuable real estate so that you can get the game onto a FAT filesystem. If you have multiple partitions, one of which is formatted as FAT and is large enough to hold the game, you're good to go -- likewise if you have only one FAT partition.

 

When you have a FAT partition of adequate size avaliable, install the game to that partition and start looking for a DOS boot disk -- a boot disk containing the NT boot loader or the "rescue" data obtained via MSBackup won't do the job, nor is the version of PC-DOS contained upon the archived boot disks contained with many BIOS flashing utilities -- you'll probably need some form of memory management in order to run the game. Boot from the boot disk, access the FAT filesystem containing the game, and run the contained executable.

 

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