DOSBox has been ported to almost every modern operating system, and RGB Classic Games has a DOSBox tutorial. DOSBox emulates an x86 computer with a variety of video and sound cards, and the speed of emulation can be adjusted while it is running (eliminating the need for a separate slowdown utility). If you are using Windows XP or newer, or any non-Windows operating system, it is highly recommended that you use DOSBox. This comes with a caveat: Windows Vista introduced a new graphics system that is incompatible with NTVDM, so only DOS games that run in text-mode are playable in 32-bit versions of Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10.īeOS/Haiku, Linux, Mac OS X, and 64-bit versions of Windows (XP/2003/2003 R2/2008/2008 R2/2012/2012 R2/2016) don't support DOS software at all.

A Sound Blaster emulator called VDMSound can resolve the audio issues on some games under NTVDM. NT-based operating systems run many DOS games very well, while some games lack sound or play too quickly. RGB also hosts a number of miscellaneous programs that may make DOS more useful or easier to use.ģ2-bit Windows NT-based operating systems ( XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10 and NT/2000/2003/2003 R2/2008) include a Virtual DOS Machine (VDM) called NTVDM that allows DOS games to be played, and the version of NTVDM that comes with Windows XP even emulates a Sound Blaster 2.0. If you are using any of these operating systems, or a DOS operating system ( MS-DOS, PC-DOS, DR-DOS, FreeDOS), you should have little trouble getting DOS games to run, though you may require a slowdown utility if a game runs too quickly. Win16 runs on top of DOS (you must have a copy of DOS in order to have Windows 1.0 through 3.11), and Windows 95/98/Me have a DOS prompt and can boot into DOS Mode. How this is accomplished depends on what operating system your computer is running.

DOS software can be run on any x86 computer, as well as many non-x86 platforms.

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