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#HOW TO RUN WINDOWS IN DOSBOX HOW TO#
#HOW TO RUN WINDOWS IN DOSBOX .EXE#
#HOW TO RUN WINDOWS IN DOSBOX INSTALL#
#HOW TO RUN WINDOWS IN DOSBOX ZIP FILE#

I use the D-Fend Reloaded DOSBox GUI Front End to configure DOSBox with all of this, config files are kind of a pain to deal with.Īnyway, I set up the configuration at 55000 clock cycles (seems to run reasonably well like that), 64MB Ram and leave the rest pretty much as it is.

#HOW TO RUN WINDOWS IN DOSBOX INSTALL#

Using DOSBox you can mount the ISO to a CD-ROM emulation drive and install from there. Win3.1 is shockingly simple in the way it configures itself. Then it's just a matter of getting an ISO of Windows and installing it in whatever method you need/want or you can probably also just get an already expanded dump. I've run Win3.11 just generically using DOSBox to emulate an older machine.

#HOW TO RUN WINDOWS IN DOSBOX HOW TO#

Have a look at our video in which we explain how to play any DOS game with DOSBox.You could use the configuration I set up in that to run it but I kinda stripped down Windows 3.11 as far as I could. Other stuffĭOSBox in full screen or high resolution window. On the DOSBox website you can find an extensive list of supported DOS games. Here's an overview of some games, cherished by the DOSGamers crew, that you can play with DOSBox: With the method mentioned above, you can play a lot of classic DOS games.

A list of supported DOS commands can be found on the DOSBox wiki section. If you don't want that, type in the entire filename including the extension.ĭOSBox emulates the DOS environment, but doesn't support all DOS commands. If there's a filename.bat and a filename.exe file in a folder, DOS will execute the filename.bat file first.

#HOW TO RUN WINDOWS IN DOSBOX .EXE#

EXE file in DOSBox, you can type in the file name without the extension. A batch file contains one or more lines of DOS commands and usually ends with the execution of a. In this example (and in general when starting a DOS game), we'll look for files with. In the DOS environment there are just 3 types of files that you can start/execute. Click here for more information! Some DOS facts to keep in mind But you can't install the game, because you need to do that in DOS! No worries! We have a guide which explains how to install and play a game from CD, all in DOSBox. So you have found the original installation CD of a DOS game.

Save the configuration file and restart DOSBox.

# to start Prince of Persia automatically when installed: # Lines in this section will be run at startup.

Copy the mount commands below the comments (indicated by a hash).

Scroll down to the autoexec section (at the bottom of the file).

Windows 8: Press the Windows key + Q, type in dosbox and the options file should appear in the search results, click it.

Windows 7: Press CTRL + ESC (or click the start button), type in dosbox and the options file should appear in the search results, click it.

This way the games folder will be mounted automatically when you start DOSBox:

Type in PRINCE and press enter to start the gameĪs you always will need the virtual drive in DOSBox to play your game, it is recommended to put the mount command in your DOSBox configuration file.

Type in cd PRINCE and press enter to open the Prince folder.

Type in dir and press enter to look at the contents of the virtual C: drive.

Type in c: and press enter to go the virtual C: drive.

If your games folder contains spaces, you have to put quotes around the folder path, for example: mount c "c:\games\dos games".

Type in mount c c:\games\dos and press enter (this creates a virtual drive C: within DOSBox, which points to the Games\DOS folder on your local C: drive).

Start DOSBox from Windows by double clicking the desktop icon.

#HOW TO RUN WINDOWS IN DOSBOX ZIP FILE#

Extract the downloaded zip file into that folder.

Create a new folder on your computer, for example C:\games\dos\prince.

Search for and download the desired game, in our example Prince of Persia.

Go to one of the many websites that offer shareware and freeware downloads of classic DOS games, for example.

Download and extract Prince of Persia (or any other DOS game)