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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Wind back the clock and play some truly classic PC games with DOSBox. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The sad truth is that some ...

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 ...

Designed for compatibility with RetroArch. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Indie developer Bernhard Schelling has announced ...

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" ...