Comments on: Play MS-DOS Games on Vista

By: anon

anon — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:24:14 +0000

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…

By: PownParty

PownParty — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:12:03 +0000

where do yu download it then???

By: azhir

azhir — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:45:16 +0000

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 !!!

By: alexander f.

alexander f. — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:15:42 +0000

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

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!

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:55:42 +0000

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

By: Zorag

Zorag — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:46:59 +0000

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

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:50:33 +0000

Same problems. DOSBox blows.

By: sam

sam — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:52:17 +0000

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

By: David

David — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:24:23 +0000

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?

By: Zorag

Zorag — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:24:04 +0000

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.