Therefore I called this version “ Enhanced Community Edition“, or short: ECE. on SourceForge, only.īecause I like and use DOSBox very often, I regularly compile the source code released on SourceForge into an unmodified version and an enhanced version containing various patches with improvements, which are created by several users in the DOSBox forums on. Since then, DOSBox has been in development continously, but no official version has been released, all changes are released as downloadable source code, e.g. The latest officially released version is 0.74, which came out in mid 2010. Because we haven’t configured DOSBox at all and have just used its default settings, you won’t even have to tweak your DOSBox settings before it will work.Here you can download my current builds of DOSBox for Windows and Linux.ĭOSBox emulates an old DOS PC and, in my humble opinion, is the definitive emulator for PC games that required MS-DOS as operating system. Move it to another computer and you can use it after installing DOSBox.
Just take that c:\dos folder - or whatever else you named it - and back it up. You don’t have to go through this entire setup process again in the future, either. The game should just work, launching within the DOSBox window as if it were running on Windows 3.1 - after all, it is. Double-click that shortcut to launch the game.
exe file by clicking File > New and browsing to its. You can then create a shortcut to the game’s. For example, you might want to place it in c:\dos\gamename. To actually use an application, download it (or copy it from old disks) and place it in a folder inside your c:\dos folder.
Install and Run Games and Other Applications You should hear a sound as soon as you launch Windows 3.1 again. Launch Windows 3.1 again and you’ll have full sound support, including support for MIDI audio. For example, if you unzipped them to the C:\dos\s3 folder, you’d type “C:\S3” here. Click the “Options” menu in the Windows Setup window and select “Change System Settings.”Ĭlick the “Display” box, scroll down to the bottom, and select “Other display (Requires disk from OEM).” In Windows 3.1, double-click the Main program folder and double-click the “Windows Setup” icon. For example, it would make sense to put these files in the “C:\dos\s3” folder.
zip file to a folder inside your DOSBox C: drive folder. You can download the S3 video driver from the Classic Games website.
For best graphics support, you’ll want to install the S3 graphics drivers and configure Windows 3.1 to use a higher resolution and more colors. By default, it’s set up to emulate S3 Graphics. However, it also supports some other types of graphics. RELATED: PCs Before Windows: What Using MS-DOS Was Actually LikeĭOSBox supports standard VGA graphics. When you restart DOSBox, you can launch Windows 3.1 by running the following commands in order:
When it’s done, close the DOS system by clicking “Reboot” in the wizard. Go through the Windows 3.1 setup wizard to install Windows 3.1 in DOSBox.