Strictly-speaking modern x86 computers running Windows should be compatible with any software written for the very first MS-DOS PCs starting with the original IBM PC and its clones. In practice, it's ...

Not sure if this is the correct forum for it, but i'm trying to get crusader to run in dosbox, and while it works, its extremely slow. Do certain games just run poorly or is there something i can ...

Almost as soon as id's Super Pack was released via Steam, eagle-eyed gaming fans noticed that id used a program called DOSBox to allow the older Doom titles to play on modern OS's. Furthermore, there ...

Linux is very good at running older software, but even the free and open-source operating system is stumped by the really ancient stuff developed for MS-DOS. Let’s go over how you can get ...

Running games during the DOS era was trouble enough, and today exploring those old games can be a nightmare. Sound card issues, memory management and other peculiarities of early PC gaming amplified ...

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