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DOSBox Sees Continued Success

Posted by Soulskill on from the but-does-it-have-xp-mode dept.

KingofGnG writes "DOSBox, the emulator designed to run DOS games on modern operating systems (and not necessarily on a PC), has been chosen as project of the month for May on SourceForge. It's the latest award granted to a piece of software that 'simply does what it is supposed to do,' as the authors say. After having amassed more than 10 million downloads, it will soon be getting an update that's been awaited for almost two years."

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  1. I love DosBox by SupremoMan · · Score: 5, Informative

    I use it to play Masters of Orion 2. It has a built in IPX simulator, so it makes multiplayer very easy. You can also record your games using built in feature!

    1. Re:I love DosBox by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

      In this instance, it doesn't matter. The Steam version of X-COM Apocalypse consists of the DOS version, and a pre-configured version of DOSBox. Same goes for all their re-releases of DOS games. You can trivially extract the files, and run it with your own version of DOSBox, or even on a real DOS machine.

      In short - no DRM. Even the bundled version of DOSBox runs just fine without Steam.

  2. Re:Just upgraded to Vista... by d_jedi · · Score: 4, Informative

    Works for me. Press alt-enter.
    YMMV depending on the game, maybe?

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  3. Re:Virtual Floppy by Drinking+Bleach · · Score: 4, Informative

    Already done. Use dd to copy the disk images, and use imgmount to mount the disk images.

  4. dosemu is also amazing by innocent_white_lamb · · Score: 5, Informative

    Some folks are doing amazing things with dos emulators on Linux:

    http://www.melvilletheatre.com/articles/powerbasic-linux/index.html

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  5. Re:Is it a virtual machine or an emulator? by Drinking+Bleach · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's a full-blown x86 emulator. It works on PowerPC and everything.

  6. Re:Not only for PC games by azgard · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, that's not quite true. Unfortunately, DosBox developers concentrate to games only, to the point they refuse patches for non-gaming hardware like printers or network cards (which could be used to make old DOS software work).

    I am not saying the emulator is not great, it is, just it focuses to much on games.