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HOW TO RUN WINDOWS IN DOSBOX INSTALL
HOW TO RUN WINDOWS IN DOSBOX DRIVERS
HOW TO RUN WINDOWS IN DOSBOX WINDOWS 10
HOW TO RUN WINDOWS IN DOSBOX PORTABLE

I knew someone on the web is selling my distro with OS pre-installed (that’s illegal).

HOW TO RUN WINDOWS IN DOSBOX INSTALL

It’s up to you to install games/software or the operating system. PLEASE NOTE Dosbian doesn’t contains any copyrighted material.

Mount Floppy disk, CD-ROM or HDD using a GUI driven utility.

Create empty HDDs of size: 256MB, 512MB, 1GB, 2GB.

Create empty floppy of size: 320KB, 720KB, 1,44MB.

Networking operations and bridging with real LAN.

Run all retro Pc Sofware (DOS / Win 3.1 / Win 95 / Win98).

What you can do with your Dosbian distro: No configuration needed, just an old school command like based machine to enjoy!īased on DosBox-SVN and DosBox-ECE, It guarantees you a decent speed in games and good performances in software emulation. Just switch on your Raspberry Pi and in few seconds your Dos prompt will be ready to use. Whether you love DOS games or you’re just fond of all the DOS retro software, this is the distro for you. It boots straight to Dosbox, from there, you can install whatever you want and building your retro-pc 🙂

Add these lines to the DOSBox configuration file (conf), so that Windows 3.Dosbian is the first Raspberry Pi distro totally dedicated to the DOS world.

Create a shortcut to DOSBox on your desktop for quick access.

HOW TO RUN WINDOWS IN DOSBOX WINDOWS 10

Use a non-system drive for DOSBox and NEVER mount your Windows 10 root drive, normally C:\.

Release the mouse cursor from DOSBox using the keys Ctrl+F10.Install GamesĮvery game has its own installation setup and in my case, all I needed to do was create a directory called C:\dos\chips for example, before starting DOSBox, and extract the game files into that, then run it within Windows 3.1. I then ran the Windows 3.1 Setup and selected S3 1024 x 768 64k colours which give you more room to play with on your screen.

HOW TO RUN WINDOWS IN DOSBOX DRIVERS

For VGA drivers, I used the S3 drivers from Vogons and extracted them to a new directory within c:\dos and called it VGA. This is best achieved by downloading Sound Blaster 16 DOS drivers from Vogons and extracting the folder to a new directory within c:\dos (sound, for example), starting DOSBox again, mounting c:\dos and running the sound installation from within DOS. If you don’t hear any sounds you’ll need to install SoundBlaster drivers. Once the installation is complete - all 20MB of it - you’ll be greeted with the familiar ding sound and the very simple Windows 3.11 opening screen. The above commands mount the emulated C drive (dos), thus allowing you to change directories to install using the CD (Change Directory) command and then simply type setup.exe to begin Windows 3.11 installation. Then, using the commands shown below, you mount C:\ and begin the installation. You can, of course, search Google for Windows 3.1, bearing in mind that it’s not abandonware and Microsoft holds the copyright. I then found my old Windows 3.1 floppy disks and using a USB floppy drive, made images of each of the eight disks and then extracted them to a subdirectory of C:\dos, called install. This is simply a case of creating a directory on one of your hard drives - dos, for example - downloading the program and installing it into that directory.

HOW TO RUN WINDOWS IN DOSBOX PORTABLE

I chose DOSBox Portable this time around because, once set up, I wanted to run it off a pen drive and use it on whichever machine I chose. I could have used a virtual machine and installed either Windows 3.1 or Windows XP, but somehow that’s not as much fun as DOSBox emulation. As mentioned in my previous article, My 10 Favourite Games Of All Time, I’ve always wanted to play Chip’s Challenge on my main PC, but 16-bit games or programs won’t run on 64-bit systems. This is one of those exercises that are completely useless in many practical terms, but it’s fun to do, especially if you have some 16-bit games laying around that won’t run on Windows 10.