How to use DOSBOX

Sometimes I want to recall the times when the first doom came out, I had to listen to the music on the cassettes, and connect the Internet over telephone networks. The games of that time are pleasant to pass again and again, even if now they seem too easy. Such a casual mood appears in many people from time to time, and you can quench the thirst for nostalgia using the DOSBOX platform. This emulator creates a special DOS environment in which all old pixel games are launched. You can place any DOS games in it that will not start on modern operating systems. How to do this and enjoy the process without failures, you will learn in this article.

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Downloading and installing DOSBOX

• This platform spreads absolutely free. You can download it on the site http://www.dosbox.comBy pressing your operating system. In this case, this is Windows.

• The load will not take a lot of time, and the installation is no different from the simplest programs. You need to indicate the directory of the installation and agree with the license agreement.

• Now the most interesting begins: you need to create a future root folder. In the future, you will introduce this folder as a disc with your virtual machine. You can create it anywhere, most importantly, remember the path to the folder.

Name it so as not to forget why it is intended. For example, Dosgames.

• Now you need to download the game itself by which you decided to nostalgize this evening. You can do this on the site http://www.old-games.ru
• For example, Dune 2 game will be downloaded

• The contents of the archive that loads on your computer must be unpacked into the Dosgames folder or any other that you created for the root catalog.

• Now go to this folder and create another in it with the name of the downloaded game. Move the contents of the archive to it.
• Thus, you have such a catalog: a folder that will become root - inside it a folder with the name of the game is the contents of the archive.
• Look carefully at the contents of the archive, it must definitely have a setup.exe and *name of the game *.exe
  Close folders.

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How to open a game in DosBox

You do not have the lightest setting, however, if you are at least a little familiar in DOS teams, the task is greatly simplified. The rest of the users are best just to follow the instructions in the article, as well as learn by trial and error, since in this environment you cannot ruin anything almost.

• Run the DOSBOX client.

• Immediately you will see a welcome window and many familiar command line.
• Enter the following command in it: Mount C C: \\ The name of the root folder.
• The first word “Mount C” sets the root catalog S. Next, you write the name of the disk on which your created folder and its name are located.

• You set your root folder. Now go inside her. To do this, write down the command with:
• Click Enter and the disc z will be replaced by

• You are in the root folder, then then you need to go inside the folder with the game. In this case, it is called Dune2. Please note that there should be no gaps in the name. Write: CD title

• Now you need to select a file from this folder to configure the game. Setting always occurs in the Setup application. Write: setup.exe

• By pressing Enter, you will see such a window. This is the setting of the game. Each old game is configured a little peculiarly, but in general the algorithm remains the same.
• Click any key to continue.

• In such a window you need to select the first item, that is, press the key 1.

• The choice of sound card looks just like that. You need to select the “Sound Blaster Pro” item, which in this game stands under the number 3.

• Select the game 1 MB of memory by clicking on the key 1. This is necessary so that it works without complaints.

• Would you like to use a mouse or not - your purely personal business. If you click 1, then the mouse will work, if the number 2, then plunge into the world of OLD of the cheekbone without computer mice.

• Check the data you entered, if everything is correct, then click the ESC.

• Now you can run the game itself. To do this, enter the command: the name of the game.exe
• You can find out the exact name of this file in the folder with the game inside the root catalog.

• That's all. All the old games that are launched in DOS environment are available to you. You can use the parameters of the game, its settings are absolutely everything that was in it decades ago.