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Although, Glide under DOS is a thing, for a short list of games that run on Voodoo1, Voodoo Rush, Voodoo2.
http://www.vogons.org/viewtopi...

The funniest part is that under Linux, the opensource Mesa3D driver used Glide as a back-end to accelerate OpenGL.
(this was ported to windows once 3DFx went belly up, in order to have an up-to-date OpenGL support with the latest features - you could get an (ugly) Doom 3 running on Voodoo5).

And so some people decided to port Mesa3D together with its Glide back-end to DOS (using CWSDPMI dos extended and DJGPP compiler suite)
So you can get OpenGL in MS-DOS (well, as long as you can get the sources and recompile them in DJGPP)

And of course somebody did port Quake 2 with 3Dfx acceleration on DOS.

3D accelerated games existed under DOS. No drivers : they programmed the graphics card's registers directly.
So, for instance there were a couple demos, Descent 2 and Terminal Velocity, shipped on a CD-ROM with a particular S3 Virge. These were the only games to look good and run well on that S3 Virge, but too short as they were demos. They didn't run on S3 Virge DX, a minor update of the same chip. Oops!

Although, Glide under DOS is a thing, for a short list of games that run on Voodoo1, Voodoo Rush, Voodoo2.
http://www.vogons.org/viewtopi...

DOSbox itself states that you should never use it for non-gaming DOS applications. It can go wrong at any random time for any nondeterministic reason. This example from the official forums tells you why. DOSbox is for games, just use it for games. "We do not care one iota about your database app" is a direct quote from a developer.

No, no, no, a thousand times no, don't use DOSbox. DOSbox is for games and games alone. Don't believe me? The developers say it themselves:

DOSBox IS NOT SUITED TO RUN YOUR NON-GAMING DOS APPLICATION. "Search the forum, there are lengthy threads why a games-targeting emulator is not what you need. It can go wrong at any random time for any nondeterministic reason. Don't, just don't."

Go get a copy of Windows 3.1 on eBay and run it in your favorite VM. Google finds guides to install Windows 3.1 in DOSBox and in VirtualBox.

wattcp has been around for ages. Like, seriously, where have you been?

http://www.vogons.org/viewtopi...

He clearly needs to reconfigure his extended memory.

wattcp has been around for ages. Like, seriously, where have you been? http://www.vogons.org/viewtopi...

I was 13 when I got my hands on a 10 year old Tandy 1000. My first computer, and I didn't care that it was outdated because Windows 95 hadn't quite come out yet. Deskmate really was great for the time.

Deskmate doesn't need real Tandy DOS to run. What you need is DOSBox. It has support for emulating the Tandy 1000 hardware:
http://www.vogons.org/viewtopi...

I've had good success even with some of the full color games with 16-color Tandy graphics support and 3-voice sound (e.g. Sierra adventure games)

Not much fun when i'm forced to hear it through Microsoft Synthesizer (22khz no reverb ew) instead of the default midi device of my choice (currently this sweet OPL3 emulating driver)