DOSBox is emulator software that emulates an IBM PC compatible computer running MS-DOS. It is intended especially for use with old PC games. DOSBox is free software.
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How do I connect a 5 1/4" floppy drive to a modern PC?
This question was originally posted on Gaming Stack Exchange.
I have a small collection of 5 1/4" floppy disks (early Sierra games) that I am trying to read. How can I connect a drive that accepts ...
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Using a printer in Dosbox
I'm trying to find a way to run an old Dos based application that uses a printer connected to the parallel port, I don't think Dosbox supports lpt.
I am interested both in using that printer and in ...
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How to test if a program pi 16-Bit compatible?
I'm creating a GUI for soPDF written in Delphi, but I want to know if soPDF is 16-Bit compatible, because I need to run it in MS-DOS 6.22
Also, can I do this test with DOSBox?
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Renaming Z drive in DOSBox
DOSBox makes a virtual drive, which it names Z:, for storing utility stuff on. Clearly they're trying to stay out of your way, so you can do whatever you want with the C: drive. Swell, I understand ...
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Unable to play my old DOS games on new laptop?
I upgraded to a new Compaq laptop last year with Windows 7 installed, and now I'm unable to play my old DOS games and I get this error message when I try to play:
The version of this file is not ...
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16-bit DOS on Windows Vista+
I have a friend that uses some really old business software and for whatever reason doesn't want to check out a new version (if one even exists, he's in a niche market). The software ran as a 16-bit ...
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Loading Games onto DosBox
I downloaded an old 16 bit game and also downloaded DosBox. I believe I have the right pieces, but I can't figure out how to open the game on DosBox. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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How can DOSBox be tweaked to run in “full screen mode” in Vista?
How can I tweak DOSBox to run in "full screed mode" in Windows Vista?
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How DosBox runs 8-bit Applications in 64-bit OS?
Usually, When we try to execute applications such as a C-language , Assembler in a 64-bit OS , it simply won't work unless we use programs such as DosBox.
I want to know the reason why the 8-bit ...
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How to use MASM within DOSBox or any other DOS emulator?
I have DOSBox installed and I am trying to use MASM from DOSBox but I failed on doing that. DOSBox keeps printing a the follwoing message:
"cannot run this program in dos mode"
I tried this on ...
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Windows shortcut that runs through DosBox
Is there a way to make a Windows shortcut that will run a dos program through DosBox automatically, without the need to open DosBox mount a drive etc' manually?
So opening the shortcut loads the ...
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Where can I find a comprehensive list of DOSbox shortcut commands?
I've got a shortcut linked to dosbox.exe named:
dosbox - START.lnk
in it I have
D:_DOSBox\dosbox.exe -conf mydosbox.conf -noconsole -c
However, I only got it because I looked into some of the ...
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Is there a way to use the numeric keypad in DOSBox?
Searching around Google and the DOSBox Wiki there doesn't seem to be a way to use the numeric keypad as a numeric keypad, instead it seems to behave like the arrow keys. Looking at the dosbox.config ...
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All Letters Upper-Case when Typing in DOSBox?
I am having to use DOSBox to run a old DOS-based program, but whenever I type a letter it's upper-case, rather than lower-case. The only way I can get a lower-case letter is by holding down shift.
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DOSBox 8.3 filenames disagree with Windows 7
When I compare a dir in DOSBox 0.74 against a dir from Windows 7 command prompt, the 8.3 filenames differ.
Long format (both drives and directories):
2012-07-30_abcdefg-abcde
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How can I improve the rendering performance of this old DOS application?
I have very old DOS Application (CadSoft Eagle - PCB Designer) and I want to work with it on my workstation with Windows 7. Then I install Windows 98 and that software into VmWare Player.
But that ...
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Rescue DOS (probably FAT16) files
I have very old computer with DOS. I need to rescue some files, all application folder, copy it to Windows XP and try to run this application in an emulator like DOSBox.
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Standalone - DosBox
I hope that this question is ontopic here.
I am looking for a standalone version of DosBox to run under Windows 7 (64 bit). I found:
http://www.pendriveapps.com/dosbox-dos-emulator/
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Automate opening of DOS program under DOSBox / Windows 7
I use DOSBox and it works pretty well, but each time I want to run the application I have to launch DOSBox, then type:
mount c c:\path\to\app
c:
cd app
app.exe
Can I somehow automate the process, ...
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How can I print with DosBox?
I'm looking for a version of dosbox with print support
I saw the answers to this question Using a printer in Dosbox but I didn't manage to make it work
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Sound not playing in DOSbox in Mac OS X Lion, but I can record the sound correctly
I'm attempting to use dosbox to play some older games (eg sim city 2000, warcraft 2). However, I cannot figure out how to get sound working. Everything works okay, but there is never any sound being ...
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DosBox Booting From HDD Image, FreeDOS Image created with qemu-img.
I'm having trouble booting a HDD image with DosBox. I've only gotten either read errors, or boot failures.
The HDD image is a verified working FreeDOS installation, created with qemu-img.
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