DOSBox

[fcuco]

So, I wanted to play Mortal Kombat 3 the other day. In my mind this was not yer an oldie game, hey! it came in a CD! I don't know why I was expecting the thing to simply work on a modern computer. Of course, it failed miserably. It then occurred to me that this game predates even Windows 95. (It was released in 1994 if I remember correctly).

I can't be the only one that can't fully processed that the 90s were not simply a few years ago and not almost 20!

Anyhow.. I just installed DOSBox and everything worked out of the box, just had to do some minor configurations for the Sound Blaster Card emulation part, now that was a blast from the past!

I am so thankful to the people that create something like DOSBox and decide to release it for free..

 

[JoshSucksAtGames]

IIRC, when I played Tomb Raider 1 on steam it used DOSBox. Took some configuring to get things to work and even then it was kinda janky, but things worked. It's awesome that stuff like DOSBox exists. Keepin' dem old games alive.

 

[fcuco]

Wow, now I am feeling very old, the original Tomb Raider was a 1996 title, the 90s were great for video games, every video game brought something new and new genres were born like the FPS (Now done to death but back then it was awesome) and the transition to actual real 3D graphics.

I still own the original Tomb Raider, I should give it a spin, or perhaps to Tomb Raider 3 which I owned but never finished.

 

[overcast]

DOSBOX forum has links to many old game images. I remember the oldest DOOM was part of the DOSBOX. I wanted to play with it and have some control over the content. I have not much played the old DOOM but it'd be interesting to see how it is. I heard new graphics is lot better compared to what people used to play in old DOOM. So yeah still want to see that old graphics.

 

[Tronikart]

Well, thank you very much for this, it seems like Im as old as MK3 so I didnt know about DOSBOX, I remember the icon on the desktop and it meant "Worms" for me, as my dad had it installed on the PC, but never knew what it was for, now that I know this, Ill go and try my luck on some old games I wanted to play and never worked out, like Populous

 

[Koyomi Araragi]

It's pretty great the DOSBox software is still evolving. At one point there were still a good 300+ games it couldn't run, but the most recent version has knocked that number down to only 32.

 

[MLF]

DOSBOX is fantastic. If you want an endless supply of games, look into old Abandonware. There are thousands of great old games that you can download and play for free. Dropping the links for DOSBOX and a couple Adandonware sites I use frequently.

https://www.dosbox.com/
https://www.classicdosgames.com/
http://www.myabandonware.com/

 

[WarVet]

DOSBOX is a great system. Before they remade I used to play Full Throttle there all the time. Something about old games and movies as well just makes me happy. It seems that the messages the developers sent when making the game was quite real. Maybe it's because they lived in a different era with different values

 

[overcast]

I have found that DOSBOX works prefectly under Windows 10. And you can run some of the old emulators on Windows 10 too. So for any reason you could not run through typical windows based emulators. In such case you can make use of the DOSBOX. And from there you can decide if you want to manage the emulated games.

 

[PenguinManiac]

I have used DOSBOX a few times, and, truth be told, it took me quite some time to figure out how to make it work. I've never had to deal with prompt consoles all that much, so installing games wasn't exactly a painless process. Still, I managed to play Daggerfall for a bit on it, definitely worth it. Old games have such a weird charm.

 

[JaiGuru]

The DOSBox people are doing god's work. There's just no other way to play a great many legacy pc games without it. What's funny is even Steam was selling the original Doom without updating it to work natively in a modern Windows environment i recent years! You had to use DOSBox to play it, which I think is incredible...in a bad way. I'm so glad DOSBox is there to make that possible but that's shifty.