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I found this old copy at my parent's home. I love the game, but as it is DOS only, I have a problem. My computer has Windows XP, so I have no DOS.

Is there a patch I can get so I can play the game now?

Look for a product called DosBox (or something similar).  A friend of mine used it to play some older DOS games and it worked fine.  You may have to dig up all your old knowledge about expanded and extended memory, though.

That game was amazing, BTW. 

In case you haven't found it yet, this site has a huge archive of Abandonware, and has DosBox for download with an easy 'how to use'.

http://www.abandonia.com/index2.php

http://www.abandonia.com/main.php?nav=programs

Duke Nukem 3D.

Ahh, invisible laser tripmines. I love booby traps.

Example: I think you start one level on a space station. Start sticking laser tripmines on the window that you can see space through. Some areas let you make an invisible tripmine. Very nifty in multiplayer.

I loved the shrink ray and the freeze gun.

The beretta was a really good weapon, too.

My copy installed fine on my XP machine. Strange. It came on a cd with doom and doom2, heretic and hexxen.

It was fun, but I preferred (oddly as I'm not known as a fan of the fantasy genre) hexxen.