Download Dosbox
We mentioned the power of this tool in recent posts, so we thought we would discuss it in more depth. It’s time to download Dosbox. What’s Dosbox I hear you say? Well its a sensational piece of software that emulates the good old fashioned Dosshell on a Windows XP machine, along with many other OS’s including Ubuntu, Vista and many more.
So many of us grew to love those original DOS games, we had out x86 (initially a 286 machine for me) then wow, a 386 DX! and then came the IBM PS1 486sx – ok, I’ll stop. I am getting carried away here. But I started with MS-Dos, then tried Digital Research Dos – but eventually came back to good old Bill Gates DOS masterpiece.
Now, with so many cool DOS games titles – the good folks at Dosbox put it all together by offering a cool emulator. Its free to download dosbox, but we highly recommend offering a donation to the project, as these guys have really done so well.
The other thing is Dosbox Help is always close at hand, they will not leave you high and dry. There are tonnes of users developing front ends and other cool stuff for it, so don’t delay just get over and download Dosbox now.
You can do it at the following link : http://dosbox.com/download.php?main=1
Probably the biggest thing that got me excited about the Dosbox emulation, was the kick butt Dosbox sound. Before this, I could get the odd old school Dos game to run on Windows XP – but I couldn’t get audio / sound for the old Dos game. (One of my favourites was Sid Meiers Colinization). Pre-Dosbox I could only get it without sound, but now, it fires to life and it brings back all those Soundblaster Pro and Adlib Memories. (I never got to test out the Roland sound cards, my family was poor! haha)
dosbox 0.65 was the latest release version of the emulator, but now – dosbox v0.73 (v0.72 superseeded) is available and well tested. Even the new front ends are tested with the newest release, ready for download.
As you setup your new download of Dosbox for Windows; it’s time to pick and choose the cool games you are going to play:
Interestingly, the most popular DOS game to kick things off is Lemmings on Dosbox. The old classic, is being played in big numbers by folks in the Dosbox world.
Now if you want to Use Dosbox for other games, I recommend heading over to Dosgames.com to get an idea of all the games you can download, play and choose. They have over 500 titles and if you can’t find gaming heaven there – then you will never find it.
For a complete Dosbox Tutorial, be sure and check out the support forums at the following address: http://vogons.zetafleet.com/index.php?c=7
We could only get our hands on Dosbox 0.72 for the purposes of testing on our Windows XP machine and after download, it ran flawlessly.
For those keen hands who are trying to use Doxbox linux, we’d love to hear your feedback – so please pop us a comment below and let us know, how hard it was installing dosbox, if you had any problems during usage and what games tested successfully with sounds etc etc. Much appreciated!
