Posted on 10/21/2021 9:02:29 AM PDT by fireman15
This is a link to an archive.org page with a working emulator based on DosBox that will run in your browser just by clicking on the "Emulate it!" picture at the top of the page. It takes a minute or two to load everything up and then the screen goes blank for a little bit when you make your selection. Hit the speaker icon and then the full screen button and you will be transported back to computing in 1992. This has worked in every browser that I have tried it in including Brave, Chrome, and Edge, but your mileage may vary.Hit the escape key to get out of full screen mode.
https://archive.org/details/windows-3.11-sgvm
Win98 set up on VMWare (free version) those professional programs II mentioned work fine. Execpt I can’t figure out how to make it print or have the programs save data to a file that I can access later from Win10.
The games don’t work at all. They are the MS WWII games like Bulge, Normandy and one other.
Yes multiple times . I couldn’t get itt work with the pofrssional programs & the games. I gave up.
Tell me about the XP emulator.
Can it handle HIMEM and LOMEM correctly?
I can still almost remember the memory management hoops I had to jump through to get Strike Commander to work...
What made those days tricky was that windows was usually installed over Dos. Some of the games were designed to run in Dos, but even the ones that were designed to use in windows did not run properly without dos. When you go to the setup menu in those games they were looking for “Soundblaster” cards and such. The games were talking directly to the sound card and the video card even though they were running under windows. The emulator or whatever has to trick the game into thinking those cards exist and also emulate them into windows. Otherwise the games won’t run properly if at all.
I don’t know much about VM but I will try to checkout your link.
I’m pretty sure that’s the problem I’m having !
Plugh
As far as saving... I haven't used VMWare recently, but I do not remember having any difficulty using a USB drive. Printing should not be that difficult either.
https://geek-university.com/vmware-player/connect-a-usb-device-to-a-virtual-machine/
As far as games go... they can be tricky but usually someone has found a solution if the game was popular, so it typically saves time to try and find out how others got them to work.
Thanks !
I’ll work on this tonight.
Thanks
There is a manual for DoxBox on their website that will help you to run programs that are not in the demo that comes up when you click on the “Emulate it!” picture in the original link.
The difficulties you will have trying to get DoxBox to do what you want it to is directly proportional to the amount of time that you spent fooling with DOS and early versions of Windows in the “good old days”. When I look over the manual almost everything is familiar to me. But that is because the amount of time that I spent fooling with DOS and early versions of Windows is basically incalculable. There are tutorials available that you can follow< that will help you./p>
https://www.howtogeek.com/104725/how-to-use-dosbox-to-run-dos-games-and-old-apps/
In many ways installing DOS 6.22 in VMware Player virtual machine is more intuitive. Here is a good tutorial. You can download a version of DOS 6.22 on archive.org.
https://grantwinney.com/installing-dos-6-22-in-vmware-player/
Here are some basic instructions to run DOS programs in DosBox. The features go way beyond this.
When you download DoxBox from their website and you run it... type in “intro” at your z:\> prompt. Then type in “intro mount”... it will give you directions. Basically you make a directory on a hard drive in your computer and copy the files and executables you want to run into this directory. Then you mount the directory with the mount command. At that point you can run the program that you want to. Of course it is a computer and chances are it will take you a couple of tried to get the hang of it.
Thanks so much for both posts.
I know batch files, loading programs into high memory, working with the swap file in windows and missing a program called PCTools.
You could easily have two, four directories up dragging and dropping sorted as desired and easily dealing with dupes plus lots more.
Anyway again, thanks.
My test bench PC needs a new mother board so it might be a while. My To Do and HoneyDo list is daunting. ;-)
I had lots of fun (on company time) with Dr Halo.
I learned to program on a 99/4A. Had the entire setup including the peripheral box, a 1024k expansion card and a Milton Bradley speech gaming system. Most of it is still in the garage.
Being in the Dallas area, I also owned a 99/2 and a 99/8, both unreleased.
At the time it was excellent hardware. Got crushed by some 16-bit system from IBM.
Will it play “Scorched Earth”?
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