#DOS 5 EMULATOR FOR MAC HOW TO#
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While you do have other options, DOSBox stands out from the rest for several reasons: For instance, thereвЂ™s also DOSBox-X, which is a fork of the DOSBox project. You might wonder why we chose DOSBox when there are other DOS emulators available to play games on macOS. Note: for Windows and Linux users, these are instructions are for playing old DOS games on Windows and Linux.

#DOS 5 EMULATOR FOR MAC HOW TO#

Learn how to play a DOS game on macOS with DOSBox, the leading DOS emulator on any platform. While macOS is not well known for gaming, you can still play DOS games on your Mac. Doom, Quake, Zork, and hundreds of other games took the primitive features of the operating system and created games that are fun and playable even by todayвЂ™s standards. If I have time this week I'll elaborate further in a separate post, keep an eye on the dosonmac tag.In the ancient days of Windows versions with 9s in the name, DOS was the dominant platform for early PC gaming. The VOGONS (Very Old Games On New Systems) forum has a thread dedicated to this. DOSBox emulates a generic SoundBlaster card and a custom S3 Trio graphics card.

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It is possible to drivers to get better performance, graphics, sound etc. Now you have a basic Windows 3.x installation running on your Mac! It's somewhat of a surreal sight:

If you intend to use DOSBox just to run Windows 3.x, add these lines right after your mount line so Windows starts when you start DOSBox, and DOSBox quits when Windows does:.

Under this, enter the following line to help Windows and DOSBox locate files:.

Enter the exact line you entered above to map your disk image or folder to drive c. At the very end of the file is where your custom AUTOEXEC.BAT code can be written.

Quit DOSBox then open the file you just created in your favourite text editor.

Within DOSBox, enter the following (in one line):Д¬onfig -writeconf '/Users//Library/Preferences/DOSBox Preferences'.

To save yourself the trouble of writing out that nasty mount line each time you start DOSBox, and to allow yourself to tweak some performance options it's best to create a preferences file.

Windows in the day needed a printer, any printer, to display some fonts properly.

When you get to the printer installation step, click the 'Generic / Text Only' option and hit.

Choose 'Let you make the modifications later', because DOSBox won't use any boot files Windows creates anyway.

You'll be asked if you want to make any changes to AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS.

Because we're dealing essentially with a folder not a real file system, 'Permanent' virtual memory won't work.

When you're asked about virtual memory, leave it with the default 'Temporary' option.

#DOS 5 EMULATOR FOR MAC INSTALL#

When you're asked, don't worry about using the option to search your drive for existing applications, there aren't any! Leave the option to install printers checked though.

Choose 'Custom Installation' with your arrow keys during the DOS-based part of the installation.

The Windows 3.x installation process is fairly self explanatory, but just a few helpful pointers:

Now you can navigate to your Windows installation files and start the setup process:.

Obviously if you created a folder, reference that instead:

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If you created a disk image, mount it in Mac OS X, then fire up DOSBox and map your image to c.

Create another folder within your dosbox folder or your disk image called setup for example, then copy the contents of each Windows 3.x floppy disk into it.

Alternatively if you want to keep things neat and tidy, you can create a dedicated disk image using Disk Utility.

Create a folder in your home directory that will serve as you C: drive in DOSBox.

Grab yourself a copy of DOSBox and install it.

For people interested in running Windows 3.x, DOSBox provides generic emulated hardware that you can easily install software for. You don't need to worry about setting up your own copy of DOS from scratch, saving you the trouble of configuring AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS, and all the graphics and audio for a huge slew of devices is already set up. While it is akin to comparing minnows to sharks in features, the latest Mac build of DOSBox (0.72) weighs in at 10MiB, compared to VirtualBox 2.0.4's 34.6MiB or VMware Fusion's 247.6MiB.ДOSBox also has some distinct advantages other than filesize if you just want to run DOS.

#DOS 5 EMULATOR FOR MAC MAC OS X#

As I mentioned in the previous post in this mini-series, one of the options for running Windows 3.x on Mac OS X is using the excellent little DOSBox DOS emulator.

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