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Article Author : Matt Jason H Date : 24th Oct 2003 Comments : 0 
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DOS Emulation Software
This isn't as scary as it sounds, it just means that because our DOS game is effectively talking a different older language, we need to get a program that acts as interpreter between our shiny new hardware and the DOS program. There are several of these programs available, I'm going to go through 2 of the best, first up DOSBox... You can download DOSBox as well as view a list of tested and supported games for it here. After you've installed and run DOSBox, you should be greeted with this window, and perhaps another telling you that its loaded drivers of MIDI emulation. Before you run your game you first need to 'mount' its folder, this isn't as pleasurable as it first sounds I'm afraid, however it is quick and easy...  To mount your games folder simply type 'mount c ' then the path of the folder you installed/unzipped the game to, this will mount the folder as drive C in the DOS box, to run the game type 'c:' then the name of the game executable...  For the majority of games this will work perfectly. However, very rarely some games may still refuse to work. In this case you have a few options, the first of which should be to try another DOS emulator such as DodGE. DodGE is a less supported and tested DOS emulation program which, thanks to a few extra advanced features, may just do the trick. You can read about and download it from here. To run a game simply run the program, select File->Open and then the *.exe or *.bat file of the game, cross your fingers and then click Emulator -> Run Program. Here's a a screenshot...  If your game still doesn't work, you have one last emulation option: Bochs. This is a comprehensive emulation package that not just emulates DOS, but a full old x86 PC. The down-side to Bochs is that its extremely difficult to set up, for this reason I wont be covering it in this guide. You can read more about, and download Bochs here. 
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