DOSBox provides a full DOS environment, but by default it does not have access to any of your Windows files and folders. Thus, before you can run a program in DOSBox, you must mount its folder inside ...

Who doesn’t remember PC games such as Maniac Mansion, the King’s Quest series and the dubious adventures of Leisure Suit Larry or software such as Microsoft Works and Lotus Smart Suite? These titles ...

If you want to make your classic games run on a modern PC, you’ll have to become familiar with DOSBox, a fully configurable DOS PC emulator that is absolutely necessary for getting most pre-Windows XP ...

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Recently, indie developer Bernard Schilling published a new fork of the DOSBox classic-gaming emulator. If you’re not familiar with DOSBox, it’s a way to play classic MS-DOS games from the 1980s and ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A MS-DOS emulator called DOSBox has been ported to the BlackBerry PlayBook, allowing it to run Windows 3.1. A ...

Almost as soon as id's Super Pack was released via Steam, eagle-eyed gaming fans noticed that id used a program called DOSBox to allow the older Doom titles to play on modern OS's. Furthermore, there ...

Valve has been forced to issue an update for the DOS-based id titles that it added to its catalogue this weekend because of an infringement of the GNU General Public Licence. The games use a piece of ...

DOSBox Pure is a new fork of 'old PC' emulator DOSBox - built to deliver console-like ease of use. Available now, the emulator is also of note as it fits in nicely with the increasingly popular ...

If I play video games they're usually pretty low tech ones. One of the few games I miss from the old days is Duke Nukem, and I'm talking about the Duke before he went 3D. If you have an old DOS game ...