does anyone know if theyll run on a crappy dell laptop?
if so, does anyone know if i could find them to download for free some were?
ive never played them and would like to check them out.

http://www.elderscrolls.com/downloads/downloads_games.htm

here's the official download place.

Daggerfall:

Minimum system requirements:
486DX2/66 MHZ, DOS 6.0, 8MB RAM, 50MB HD Space, 256-color VGA graphics card, Mouse, Soundcard (Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster 16, AWE 32, Pro Audio Spectrum, Ensoniq Soundscape, Gravis Ultrasound)

Arena:

Minimum system requirements:
386/25 MHZ, DOS 5.0, 4MB RAM, 25MB HD Space, VGA graphics card, Mouse, Soundcard (Ensoniq, Aria, Roland, SoundBlaster, Ultrasound).

right on... thanx alot!

hahah....oh man the setup sounds way to complicated for me...im not good with comps, and ima simleton

Actually DOSBox is fairly system intensive, or at least emulating a DOS environment is much more demanding than simply using DOS. The original system specs don't apply, but anything from this century should be able to run them fine. Processor is the most important thing, but if it's at least 2GHz single core I think you're good.

What you fail to take into account, StoneFrog, is that he is a simleton.

I dunno. I bet if I tried it on my mom's olde Compaq lappy from 2000 it would run like a slideshow -- and the lack of an active-matrix LCD would blur it into a horrid mess. So, if his Dell laptop is that olde and that cheap he's kind of screwed.

The good news is it's playable on my Compaq lappy from 2002. PIII 1066 MHz, 256 MB RAM, 16 MB Mobility Radeon, etc. And the icing on the cake is the load times on that computer aren't even as bad as they were for Morrowind! (I can't believe I played Morrowind on that thing!)

Either way, it's always worth a try. TES games are awesome.

Thx for making me smile