DOSBox

[OGpistolpete]

Is there anyone that can help me set up DOSBox, so I can play a bunch of freeware and abandonware games that you can only play on DOS. I tried to set it up, but it's to damn confusing for you. For those that can help, I am running on XP.

[Xero Gravity]

Basically, once you've installed DOSBox and loaded it up, you need to input this into the command line mount C C:\oldgames. Now obviously, you need to replace the 'C:\oldgames' part to wherever the location of the game you're wanting to play is. SO for example, it could be something like mount C E:\oldgames\Monkey (this on my computer would allow me to play The Secret Of Monkey Island). Once you've done that, you should get a new prompt where you simply put in C: to set the drive to the folder you specified earlier. Then another prompt should appear and in that you type in the name of the .exe you're wanting to play (in my example I'd type in MI.exe for it to work). If there is no .exe in the folder you're using, then a .bat also works.

[OGpistolpete]

I'm trying to play Hidden Agena right now.

I moved the game to C:\unzipped\Hidden

So do I mount that location, and then when I try to run the game, what do I enter?

[Xero Gravity]

If that's where you have the game located, it'd go something like this:

mount c C:\unzipped\Hidden

C:

[name of the game].exe

The last step obviously depends on what the exe/bat file is called in the Hidden folder.

Edited November 10, 2007 by Xero Gravity

[OGpistolpete]

Yay it worked! Thanks a lot Xero!

[Scott McFly]

Whenever I've used DOSBox in the past, I've always used a graphical frontend for it. I couldn't recommend you a specific one unfortunately, but if you're going to be using it a lot, you might find it easier to manage and use via a frontend.