[software] How to Play Retro MS-DOS Games with DOSBox

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New games are released often, some as long-awaited as Alan Wake 2 or Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III. But some of us will also remember when games contained pixels and exploited the way to have fun without having to resort to realistic graphics or soundtracks that are true works of art. These old games from several decades ago ran on the MS-DOS operating system, and now you can play them again on your PC using the DOSBox emulator.

DOSBox is an emulator of this old command line-based operating system, which was used on personal computers in the 80s and 90s. MS-DOS (MicroSoft-Disk Operating System) is owned by Microsoft and operated until the mid-90s. , when it was replaced by other more modern operating systems with a graphical interface such as Windows 95. MS-DOS was designed to run on the IBM PC and compatible PCs.

This old operating system follows the bases of the current ones, with a directory structure where files are saved, and that can execute programs designed for it. The difference is that everything works with commands, since there is no graphical environment or the possibility of using the mouse. Using commands we navigate through the different structures and execute the programs simply by writing their name and pressing enter.

In addition to programs, such as word processors, a multitude of games in floppy disk format (and later on CD-ROM) that could be run from MS-DOS also proliferated in the 1980s and early 1990s. With games we could escape from the work to be done at the time when the Internet was not yet known or almost did not exist, without much more help than the magazines that you could find at the newsstand, and that hopefully had the trick or solution to the problem that we were facing. you had sent by postal letter the previous month.

Thanks to DOSBox you can remember these games and enjoy them again, in a free emulator that is easy to use. In this guide we are going to see how to install, run and add games to DOSBox step by step.

 

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