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 ...

FreeDOS is an operating system that can run MS-DOS programs natively and will appeal more to enthusiasts. DOSBox is an ...

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 ...

OK, so sticking this under 16-bit is a bit of a crude fit, but a great many of the PC’s pre-3D classics date from a heyday around the same time as the SNES and Sega Genesis. A variety of ways exist to ...

As advanced as today’s gaming titles are, they just don’t have the appeal that simple games of the DOS era had. After all, who can forget the good old days of Bio Menace, Dangerous Dave and SkyRoads.

Strictly-speaking modern x86 computers running Windows should be compatible with any software written for the very first MS-DOS PCs starting with the original IBM PC and its clones. In practice, it's ...

Not sure if this is the correct forum for it, but i'm trying to get crusader to run in dosbox, and while it works, its extremely slow. Do certain games just run poorly or is there something i can ...

The major benefit I see in DOSBox Pure over DOSBox Classic is a sort of built-in containerization for games. DOSBox Pure creates a separate environment for each game automatically when it's "opened" ...

Running games during the DOS era was trouble enough, and today exploring those old games can be a nightmare. Sound card issues, memory management and other peculiarities of early PC gaming amplified ...