DOSBox

DOSBox is a free DOS computer emulator. It emulates the entire machine, even CPU, sound card and graphics card, so it does not suffer from ills of Windows' DOS emulator, such as speed bugs. It is also easily configurable with its configuration file, dosbox.conf. It has been ported to other platforms (Linux and Mac) allowing users on these other Operating Systems to play DOS games.

The future of DOSBox is also very promising. The next version will be able to run Windows 3x. This will be especially important as users start to migrate to 64 bit versions of Windows, since these versions of Windows can't run 16 bit code (almost all of Sierra's classic games.)

DOSBox can be downloaded from here.

DOSBox Guides

Be sure to see the DOSBox Manual for help with using DOSBox. More help can be found in the guides below and the DOSBox Guides section of the DOSBox forums on VOGONS.

For more complete guides, see the official guides. If you need further help, you can ask on the the DOSBox forums on VOGONS.

CVS Builds

CVS Builds are experimental versions of DOSBox compiled from the latest code and patches. These might have new features, bug fixes or optimizations. They might not be as stable as the official release.

CVS Builds of DOSBox can be found on this VOGONS thread. (From a post by HunterZ on VOGONS. Note: these builds are unsupported)

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