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 ...

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 ...

DOSBox makes it easy to play classic PC games on modern platforms by emulating the MS-DOS environment for which they were designed. It’s available in a variety of versions for almost any platform. But ...

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.

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 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Before Windows, there was MS-DOS—that’s the Microsoft Disk ...

Robert Wray wants to know if his old DOS programs will run in Windows 7. Here’s the general rule: If the DOS program ran in XP, it will probably run in a 32-bit version of Windows 7. But no DOS ...