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Is DOS Gaming Dead?

Posted by simoniker on from the barely-functioning dept.

Thanks to Monster Hardware for its article discussing the problems of getting classic DOS games working on today's state-of-the-art PCs. The author discusses trying the Microsoft Program Compatibility Wizard ("After fooling around with a number of games I was able to get a few of them half-way working"), before trying the DOSBox freeware util "...not perfect: Some games run, some games don't." After "trying and mainly failing for the last several weeks to get a handful of old DOS games... to run on a modern PC", is this author's experience typical, or are there any other ways to get old DOS titles running easily?

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  1. DOSEmu for Linux by OneFix · · Score: 2, Redundant

    DOSEmu works with both FreeDOS and M$-DOS. I haven't seen much that it won't actually run...