VOGONS View topic Guide. Old guide wrote You just cant do it while in DOSBoxs own DOS shell you need to boot up from pure DOS. Let me know if you want anything elaborated I kind of wrote this in a hurry since Ive got a ton of other work to get done today and should really be getting started 1. Get a boot disk. First off, get an MS DOS boot disk. Youll need a. img file. I myself used 6. 22. C. IMG from Bootdisk. I dont know exactly which versions of MS DOS will work, but I suppose 7 should be fine too. Ive read that you can cheat Windows into accepting a different version by using set ver 6. I cant confirm this myself since if you use 6. Make sure this file is in your DOSBox directory. Make a hard disk image. You can do this using the bximage program that comes with Bochs. HAL9. 00. 0s Megabuild contains a built in command for creating these from within DOSBox. Would be awesome if that could be merged with the main branch. Making an image using bximage is extremely straightforward. Theres a section on using it on the DOSBox wiki too. All you really need to remember when using bximage is the cylinder count, since everything else is standardized and shouldnt be changed. In my example Im making a 4. MB image which has 8. Only flat images are supported as of this time of editing. Sparse images will not be recognized. However, its possible to still compress flat files using your host OSs filesystem in Windows XP, this is the default behavior hence the blue filename. Copy this file lets call it c. DOSBox directory. Mount and format your new hard disk image. So now we have a hard disk image that were going to be installing Windows 9. DOSBox is an emulator program that emulates an IBM PC compatible computer running a DOS operating system. Many IBM PC compatible graphics and sound cards are also. As with Windows 10, we are moving into the new era of advance Operating Systems but you might still have a few old dos based application or games that you. QBasic for Windows 7 This Tutorial describes how to run QuickBASIC 4. Windows 7 or 10 by using DOSBox. Dosbox For Windows 7 32bitThe problem is it doesnt have a filesystem yet. This is where our boot disk first comes in. Start up DOSBox and type the following Code Select allimgmount 2 c. Note you may need to replace c. It should say Drive number 2 mounted as c. You might notice that were not giving it a drive letter basically, every drive needs to have a filesystem, which is a sort of file index, before it can be used properly. Without a filesystem like FAT3. NTFS, HFS, etc. a filesystem is just empty, unorganized space that the operating system can recognize but cant really do anything with, so until we fix this problem we cant mount it under C or any other drive letter yet. Modifying filesystems on a drive is called partitioning. Dosbox For Windows 7 Free Download' title='Dosbox For Windows 7 Free Download' />This guide is for those who want to get Windows 95 working on DOSBox but dont want to go through the trouble of looking up all the scattered pieces of information. Now type the following Code Select allboot 6. DOSBox will now boot up from the MS DOS boot disk. The first thing well do is use fdisk to create a filesystem. Run fdisk, choose option 1 Create DOS partition or Logical DOS Drive, then option 1 Create Primary DOS Partition. When asked if you want the new partition to comprise the whole hard disk, choose Y. A system restart will be prompted. Press enter DOSBox will quit. Now that we have our newly partitioned drive, we need to format it to effectively bring it to a completely empty and consistent state so that we can start putting files on it. To do so, we need to restart DOSBox and boot back into MS DOS. This time, however, well mount our drive differently Code Select allimgmount c c. At this point, DOSBox should say Drive C is mounted as c. If something is wrong, start this step over. На Windows 7 не работают DOSпрограммы, хотя на Windows XP с ними проблем не было. Микрософт. DosBlaster helps users to run DOS games using DOSBOX. It offers a simplified view of the games which can be run by double click. Download the installation zip file from Download Turbo C 3. Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows XP. Download and install DosBox using the instructions. Supaplex is a game for the PC DOS that requires at least a 80286 processor it can be run on a 8086, but can be too slow then, and a VGA monitor. Play DOS Games on Windows 10, Windows 8. Windows 7 with DOSBox. The ultimate solution to play DOS games on your PC with Windows 10, Windows 8. Vista or. QBasic Interpreter as well as QuickBASIC 4. Call Of Duty Black Ops 1 Serial Key. QBX 7. 1, Visual Basic 1 Compilers, preinstalled, ready to use with DOS 6. Virtual Machine or DOSBox. Dont attempt to access the C drive from DOSBoxs own DOS shell or you might make it unreadable for pure DOS. Now boot into MS DOS by using the same command as last time Code Select allboot 6. When you enter the DOS prompt, format your new C drive by typing Code Select allformat c Note if at this point DOSBox is incorrectly reporting the size of your hard disk, that may be due to either a DOSBox bug or a problem with MS DOS. I dont know exactly which one, but Ive found that hard disk images with a size of over 5. MB or a cylinder count of over 1. Theyll work, but youll only be able to use a portion. Copy over setup files and start Windows 9. At this point you should have your Windows 9. The version should not matter all that much Im using a Dutch OEM version myself, the same one I got with my first Pentium computer about 1. It doesnt really matter if its an image or not. The trick here is to copy the installation files over to your newly formatted hard disk and then perform the install from there. If you dont have an image already, consider making one anyway. Discs degrade over time and will become unreadable, especially if its already a home made copy to begin with. The easiest way to do this to my knowledge, anyway is to mount the c. Linux. Im on Mac OS X myself and can mount it by double clicking on the image file in the Finder. On Windows, Im not entirely sure if this is possible, but a program like Isobuster should work too. Dominus recommends using Disk. Explorer which is free. Make sure you close DOSBox before you move the files. All you need to do is move over the entire WIN9. CAB files from the CD to your mounted and now formatted image. It should be only about 3. MB in size. Unmount c. DOSBox. Well now start the installation. Mount c. img like we did the last time and boot 6. To start the installation, type the following Code Select allc cd win. The is flag will prevent Scandisk from running, which is unnecessary. Note if the mouse is not working at this point, exit setup and run mouse. A drive. Windows 9. To have Windows start up automatically when starting DOSBox, you could edit your config to contain the following under autoexec Code Select allautoexecimgmount c c. In a little while, Windows 9. If you find that DOSBox isnt running anymore after a while, thats because Windows setup prompted a restart. Simply restart DOSBox and reboot into your c. Caveats and finishing up. Note that the best way to run Windows 9. DOSBox is with machinesvgas. Im actually not sure about corenormal being the best choice qbix mentioned that the dynamic core is probably as safe to use as the normal core, but its the oldest and most tested. In the past, coresimple was used to run Windows 9. The simple core emulates less instructions and causes visual glitches today. Its possible to get internet working using HAL9. NE2. 00. 0 passthrough patch, but it requires compiling your own version or using his Megabuild. Ill update this guide later when I get that working. On Mac OS X, make sure you dont set the screen bit depth to anything over 8 bit 2. Ive also found that its MUCH faster in full screen mode when using the opengl output system. Hardware detection should work just fine, so dont worry about DOSBox locking up. Thanks. to qbix, Dominus, h a l 9. IRC gang for helping me get this working. Visit dosbox irc. Post here if youre having trouble so I can add fixes to the guide. TODOGet internet working. Get CD ROM drive working is this possibleFind out how to easily move win. Windows host operating system. DOSBox DOS emulator for Windows 1. Windows 8 and 7. Play DOS Games on Windows 1. Windows 8. 1 and Windows 7 with DOSBox. The ultimate solution to play DOS games on your PC with Windows 1. Windows 8. 1, 8, 7, Vista or XP is DOSBox. DOSBox emulates DOS and the environment in which DOS ran in the past like an old pc, including memory management and sound configuration, but with the power of your computer today. On this page well show you how to make the classic DOS game Prince of Persia or any other DOS game work. You can also play Prince of Persia directly on Windows 1. If you want to install a DOS game from an original CD rom, you can find instructions here. Download and install DOSBox. Download and extract Prince of Persia or any other DOS gameGo to one of the many websites that offer shareware and freeware downloads of classic DOS games, for example www. Search for and download the desired game, in our example Prince of Persia. Create a new folder on your computer, for example C gamesdosprince. Extract the downloaded zip file into that folder. Get the game working in DOSBox. Start DOSBox from Windows by double clicking the desktop icon. Once in DOSBox Type in mount c c gamesdos and press enter this creates a virtual drive C within DOSBox, which points to the GamesDOS folder on your local C driveIf your games folder contains spaces, you have to put quotes around the folder path, for example mount c c gamesdos games Type in c and press enter to go the virtual C drive. Type in dir and press enter to look at the contents of the virtual C drive. Type in cd PRINCE and press enter to open the Prince folder. Type in PRINCE and press enter to start the game. Automatic mounting. As 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. This way the games folder will be mounted automatically when you start DOSBox Open the configuration file. 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. Windows 8 Press the Windows key Q, type in dosbox and the options file should appear in the search results, click it. Scroll down to the autoexec section at the bottom of the fileCopy the mount commands below the comments indicated by a hash. The lines below apply to this example autoexec Lines in this section will be run at startup. You can put your MOUNT lines here. Prince of Persia automatically when installed cd princeprince. Save the configuration file and restart DOSBox. Play a game from CD with DOSBox. So you have found the original installation CD of a DOS game. But you cant install the game, because you need to do that in DOSNo worries We have a guide which explains how to install and play a game from CD, all in DOSBox. Click here for more information Some DOS facts to keep in mind. In the DOS environment there are just 3 types of files that you can startexecute. These are. BAT,. COM and. EXE files. In this example and in general when starting a DOS game, well look for files with. BAT batch and. EXE executable extensions. A batch file contains one or more lines of DOS commands and usually ends with the execution of a. EXE file. If you want to execute a. BAT or. EXE file in DOSBox, you can type in the file name without the extension. If theres a filename. DOS will execute the filename. If you dont want that, type in the entire filename including the extension. DOSBox emulates the DOS environment, but doesnt support all DOS commands. It doesnt have to either. A list of supported DOS commands can be found on the DOSBox wiki section. Supported games. With the method mentioned above, you can play a lot of classic DOS games. Heres an overview of some games, cherished by the DOSGamers crew, that you can play with DOSBox On the DOSBox website you can find an extensive list of supported DOS games. Other stuff. DOSBox in full screen or high resolution window. Mount CD rom, images or other stuff. How to set the default DOSBox speed. Problems with keyboard layout. Graphical user interfaces for DOSBox. How to install and use DOSBox on Youtube. Have a look at our video in which we explain how to play any DOS game with DOSBox.