DOSBox 0.74-3

For those of us who are over a certain age, some of our first memories on a computer were playing PC games in MS-DOS. If you have ever felt nostalgic for some of those old games from the 80s and 90s, like DOOM, Aladdin, Dangerous Dave, Warcraft Orcs & Humans, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, and lots more, then DOSBox is the tool you need to make your dream into a reality. This program allows you to emulate an MS-DOS environment without modifying your Windows operating system.

Newer operating systems have come a long way since, say, Windows 95, but for all their technical advancements, they have made it complicated to play games that were designed for much simpler systems, like MS-DOS. With DOSBox, you can transport yourself back to the early 90s with that familiar black box where you can write command lines. If you’re too young to remember any of this, there’s bound to be a tutorial you can follow somewhere online.

For DOSBox to detect the game, you first need to inform it of the unit you are using. To do this, use the command “mount”, and mount the selected unit. If you need to increase the cycles in your CPU, press Ctrl + F8.