Play MS-DOS Games on Vista

Posted on February 6th, 2007 by Jason

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If you try to run an old DOS game on Vista, you’ll probably get an error “This system does not support fullscreen mode.” Fortunately, this isn’t a dead end. Download a copy of DOSBox, the greatest MS-DOS emulator for any platform (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and more), and try running your game under DOSBox. Not only will you get support for old-school graphics like CGA and EGA, you can even run it in a window!

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  5. PurpleBunny on 18 Apr 2008 at 10:03 pm #

    This is relly useful, a lucky find

  6. Eduardo Gonzalez on 12 Oct 2008 at 8:37 pm #

    Not for games made from 1995 and after

  7. Dark_LeXu on 24 Jan 2009 at 6:08 pm #

    thx youre the best!!!! i can;t wait to play the old school games:X:X:X:X:X: thx a lot:*:*:*

  8. La Estrella Brillante on 03 May 2009 at 10:20 am #

    Thanks a whole bunch! Now I can play some of my fave classic games again :D

  9. floyd fisher on 24 May 2009 at 6:21 pm #

    Dosbos is bs.

    I tired using it with my HP laptop. I found two problems almost immediately.

    1. Dosbox is not compatible with HP laptop keyboards. I had trouble just trying to type in a c:\ prompt and was unable to type in the backslash.

    2. I tried the mount command, and found out dosbox cannot find my lightscribe CD rom drive to do a mount. I’ve got dos games on CD, and would love to be able to play them again, but not with this program.

    You are way better off getting ahold of a copy of partition magic, diggin up an old copy of MS dos, and doing a dual boot. Yeah, it’s a PITA rebooting your machine to play dos games, but hey it works flawlessly.

  10. Thomas915 on 31 May 2009 at 3:13 pm #

    Floyd Fisher,

    HOW does running DosBox prevent you from typing a backslash??? Obviously, this is operator error, not a DosBox problem.

  11. BAP! on 15 Jun 2009 at 3:02 am #

    I Have DOS Box Installed but I am having trouble making it work. Please Help. I enjoy my DOS Games. I miss them not working as in 95, 98, Me, XP.

    Explain the steps as if I were a child novice.

    Thanks

  12. Zorag on 03 Jul 2009 at 10:24 am #

    I, too, am having difficulties with this program. I am trying every key combination I can, but can not enter a backslash. My left bracket is a dead key while running DosBox, and my right bracket acts as a left bracket. My backslash key acts as a right bracket.

    Operator error? I think not.

  13. David on 26 Jul 2009 at 9:24 am #

    I have Dosbox and when i try to run 11th hour 7th guest two game on it seems to run too fast on video parts and quality on video seems worst and just trying to get playing game right way without it being super quick which makes game looks horrible is there anyway to make it play the same way it did back in p166mhz days?

  14. sam on 17 Aug 2009 at 1:52 am #

    just got rid of the steaming pile of dos box had same key problems as above

  15. Mark on 01 Sep 2009 at 3:50 am #

    Same problems. DOSBox blows.

  16. Zorag on 16 Sep 2009 at 12:46 pm #

    Almost 2 months and no helpful info. DOSBox meet the recycle bin.

  17. Rebecca on 23 Sep 2009 at 12:55 pm #

    My relentless cd won’t play, the intro pops up on the dosbox but it keeps saying every time no cd. blarg!

  18. alexander f. on 02 Oct 2009 at 6:15 pm #

    here’s an idea….

    GET VIRTUAL PC 2007

    heres how to get around the errors

    1. get virtual pc 2007

    2. have dos (6.22 recommended) on floppies or cd-rom

    for cd rom right click the cd icon and choose use

    physical drive (*) * being you cd drive letter

    or use an iso

    for an iso click on the cd icon find the iso and load it (iso only work 25% of the time)

    for floppies click on the floppy disk icon and choose use drive (*) where * is your drive letter

    follow instructions and install dos

    for cd-rom users only – you may need to manually install drivers for your cd rom

    1. on the internet find these files:

    1. oakcdrom.sys
    2. mscdex.exe

    and any thing that can make floppy images

    2. open the floppy image maker

    3. use the 2 files and make a floppy image

    4. goto virtual pc and right click the floppy icon and choose use floppy image

    after its done loading type in this

    c:\dir a:

    to check and see if its working

    then you need to do this:

    (warning this could cause errors and you may need to reinstall dos)

    c:\edit autoexec.bat

    create a 5th line

    and type in this

    MSCDEX.EXE /M:10 /D:cdrom

    then save

    back at the prompt type in this

    c:\edit config.sys

    there should be a line that has this at the end

    =E

    change it the E to Z

    create a line above DOS=HIGH

    type in this

    DEVICE=OAKCDROM.SYS /D:CDROM

    then save

    reboot your computer and you are done!

    have fun!

  19. azhir on 11 Oct 2009 at 8:45 am #

    im having trouble playing my championship manager 97/98 on my windows vista laptop.
    i have installed DOS BOX and cm97/98 to my hard drive.
    i can run my DOS BOX, but cant run cm97/98 from inside there.
    please help !!!

  20. PownParty on 22 Oct 2009 at 2:12 am #

    where do yu download it then???

  21. anon on 19 Nov 2009 at 7:24 pm #

    Dosbox doesn’t suck. The keyboard bidings are for a normal 101 key US keyboard by default. RTFM and edit the config or use the keybinding sw. The issue is that it needs a lot of power. My atom N270 unit can’t quite run the games :(

    Installing Dos or Win98 as a dualboot is a great idea if you have the luxury of getting sound, mouse and graphics drivers for the system, wich many units nowdays don’t have. Stupid thing they don’t support running DOS 16bit apps in vista and windows 7…

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