As usual, you provide just the information I was looking for! My 79 year old mother wants to play her old games. I have a couple computers just sitting around and she is more than welcome to have one. I can follow your instructions, make her a cheat sheet for the commands and she can happily enjoy her games again! Thank you!
Huh, I always thought Mr. Barnatt would be the kind of teacher that when he catches you playing games at class time, he would admonish you... But no, he will teach you how to better configure your game 😂
we had a teacher that let us make a real dnd style text based game wiht a ascii map and i made a custom dbase for it to have monsters and animals they ended up getitng us make hte software that became hardware for the schools cafeteria inventory program.
Just a quick tip: the fastest way to get a game running it's simply to drag the .exe file to the DosBox icon at the desktop... this way opens DosBox executing the game instead of with the prompt
I can start a DOS game faster than someone can find, drag, and drop it into DOSBox. I setup a Windows shortcut to run a batch file I created in the game's folder, with an exit command at the end to close DOSBox. The batch file is mainly to change the CPU cycle count for that particular game, plus any additional commands (such as pause and echo commands to communicate additional information). *NOTE:* DOSBox gets confused when trying to access a game's CONFIG executable, due to DOSBox having its own CONFIG executable. Using batch files allows me to run DOSBox's CONFIG executable from a subdirectory, and then return to the game's root directory to run its own CONFIG executable.
I must have been using DOS-Box for playing the original Master Of Orion [from 1993] for something like 20 years now - and until watching this video I did not now it had a native key-mapper function. So thank you Chris for bringing up this feature
I use DOSBox for DOS based engraving and CAD/CAM software. I have found that if I run those in compatability mode in Win2000 the CPU heat goes way up. So in DOSBox using the CPU clock cycles option I can adjust the CPU loading to reduce heating. Now - if only there was a way to use a parallel port security dongal on the raspberry Pi...
@@gregbentzinger8263 I found a mention or two of parallel port HATs for the R-Pi. Possibly a USB to parallel port adapter, intended no doubt for Windows, might be persuaded to work. Beyond the capacity of my two brain cells, though.
DOSBox is a fantastic piece of software and I have been using it for over 10 years. It's great for us oldies that grew up playing DOS games in the 80's and 90's to relive our wild previous lives. I run on a Linux platform and run DBGL (DOSBox Game Launcher) on top of DOSBox which is a useful tool for setting up and running games without the need to enter the commands through the DOS window
Great topic! I had kept a DOS/Win95 PC around for years to be able to play some of my old favorites like Master of Orion. But the motherboard died a couple of years ago, so now I look forward to installing dosbox and reliving the good old days!
Run DOSBox if you like, but don't send your old PC to scrap. Original hardware is very desirable, and there are options for keeping old systems running (CF drive solutions, cannibalizing chips from dead cards, etc). If you sell it, please charge a fair price-don't gouge potential buyers.
OMG THANK YOU!! I was recently just trying to get this all figured out just right on my Pi4, got mixed up among different tutorials online. Your videos are always great, and this one in particular is super timely for me!
Dosbox reminds me of good ol' days of playing LucasArts games. My favourite ones were Indiana Jones and Monkey Island. Awesome video. A good Sunday to all of us. 👍
Great video. Finally they talk about the Conf file so that you don't have to re-enter everything every time. unfortunately they didn't mention how to integrate CD drives. but just the fact of showing where this Conf file is located is worth its weight in gold. Thank you.
Great video as always! Recently I used Dosbox but I noticed a limitation, when you run an multi-floppy disk installer (like Microsoft Assembler - Setup.exe), Dosbox don't allow you to change the floppy disks (hack: you need to manually rename Disk2.img to Disk1.img to continue). Then I learned about Dosbox-X an opensource version of DosBox that fix this and other limitations, including menus for easy access to settings.
Oh my... Using DOSBox and its IMGMOUNT command I was able to install my WordPerfect 5.1 again! This is working very well. Finally... I am able to read my still unconverted word processing files from the old days. Now I only need to find a way to setup a general text printer for outputting these old files... Thanks Chris for pointing out this wonderful tool!
Dosbian is something that works wonderfully on the Pi and boots straight into the MS-DOS environment. Excellent when yo want to have something that just does MS-DOS very much like a real old fashioned PC would. I believe in the same guise there's a version of the software booting straight into an Amiga environment. Amibian. Of course it does make the Raspberry Pi into a bit of a one-trick pony and with DOSBox running it from the GUI / Desktop environment keeps the system more versatile and capable of doing more besides doing the retro computing thing. I also found a Commodore 64 variant - great if you put a raspberry Pi in a C64 case with something like a Keyrah! :)
I always liked the idea of just switching on my Raspberry Pi & getting a menu with options to just jump into a fully set up older system with dynamically expanding storage for each. There are some options to run something similar from USB sticks but nothing as simple as this I've found yet. Everytime I've attempted to set something up like this I seem to run into issues with my Pi SSD or screen resolution issues (I have a HDMI Ultrawide monitor). Puppy Linus seems to be the closest to being able to provide whats needed to set up but I really wish it was as easy as just switch on, choose from a menu and see the basic or Dos prompt.
@@Corialtavi I have had similar issues with my ultra wide, it seems a 4:3 DVI monitor for me is the best way to go for things like this. Converting the HDMI to DVI and do the sound separately. If you gave wide screen monitors going through the desktop variants of these emulators from the GUI might be the best option than.
Looks like I know what I might be doing over the weekend! Installing DOSBox to my laptop, searching and picking through the sites you mentioned for some games, and then having myself a good time. It'd be a step up from the usual Aisleriot Solitaire. :)
I used Dosbox to install old accounting software so I could access data from 10 years ago with printing supported. It was free instead of hundreds of dollars for professional solutions.
Chris, thank you - I've now finally managed to dig into my old 486 archive folder from 1995 & have got my old pure-DOS planet/gravity simulator working!!! I even had to adjust output from surface to opengl to get variable DOSBox resolutions.
Thanks Chris, have just been playing the original DOS Doom from 1993. Spent ages working out the Linux file system because of one of your videos and now I've gone back to having a C drive :-)
Thank you Chris! I spent this evening getting the LED to blink on my RPI PICO, then played SIMCITY2000 in DOSBox on my RPI400 - and all thanks to your videos.
Thank you for this video, I have been using Dosbox for about 10 years in Linux, mainly to review an old C/C++ course on floppy disks of 1990, it is possible to run also the turboC++3.0 compiler; it is also possible to use non English keyboards downloading a proper file from the translation section of the download page
I remember playing Pacman in arcades when I was a teenager. Later, as an adult, I bought a C64 and played it on there as well. I never owned a PC as I moved to the Amiga and then from there to Linux so I really didn't play any DOS games at all that weren't ports. I'm running a Pi4 as my desktop now so I'll have to give this a try. Thanks for the video.
Magic DosBox is a virtual machine for Android that allows you to run PC MS-DOS games on smartphones and tablets. It runs a little faster then standard DosBox and it's a breeze to setup. No PC version unfortunately.
As I watching your video, the thought cross my mind that why waste DOS Box on games only - it would give Word Perfect and Lotus 123 a second life in 2020s. Thank you once again for an excellent video on retro computing.
Some tips: * Tou can also use scalers to make the windowed mode bigger if you can't use anything other than surface. normal2x or normal3x is the recommended scaler if you only want to make it bigger, not interpolate it. * There's a -noconsole parameter which disables the console window when running. * You can have as many configuration files as you want, you can make a custom shortcut which automatically runs the game if the autoexec section has the proper mount, drive switching commands and of course the executable name. Using the exit command at the end of the section automatically closes Dosbox after you exit the game. * I also recommend to use the mixer command, especially if you use the tip above, to avoid game audio being too loud. I usually put a 'mixer master 50' to start with half volume level.
In the 00s I visited a data centre with a lot of legacy systems. There were some PCs that emulated OS/2 in order to run some server application that had never been ported to any newer systems.
It is even possible install Windows 95/98 on Dosbox (Dosbox-x fork) with 3Dfx support even making 3D GPU support available. It does work, but it is quite involved to get up and running. When it works though, it's quite sublime. But nothing beats booting up a real retro system - as long as it works. I had to convert my PIII to using Compact flash for harddrives etc. I find emulation fascinating as it does away with hardware/software limitations - quite interesting for preserving functionality that would otherwise be lost too.
@@Arti9m surprisingly little, if you switch back and forth you’ll notice the real hardware is very consistent with the emulation being slightly less consistent in some games more than others. For many this would be a good enough replacement to relive old gaming memories. For others it not being real hardware or the slight frame time differences and imperfections occurring me be jarring enough not to have anything to do with it.
@@Arti9m for the ones with a hardware perspective, who like to tinker with machines, devices, like repairing things, maintaining things hardware wise there will be a point messing with the real thing. I like both and I am amazed what can be done through software and hardware emulation these days. And how versatile and powerful those single board computers are these days. :)
I like Dosbox-X because it has a menubar to make it easier to change settings and swap disk images. Its also more up to date with compatibility and stuff.
Greetings Chris and thank you for taking us back to the good old days with this heartwarming informative video, but I think you need mapping yourself before the next video 😊👍🏾
15:25 Everything you said is correct, but I think it's a good habit to put file paths in quotation marks, in case there are any spaces. E.g, mount c "c:\dos progs". You were wise to put an underscore instead of a space, but not everyone is.
I was hoping to see what's inside the Classic dir, but unfortunately the time passed very fast, I hope you can make a video about your old BASIC programs you made in the gold old days, If I remember you showed one in a previous video (something like shooting a spaceship) but I wish to see more (maybe under its own playlist), Thanks Chris, you brought back some memories I thought I forgot
We need a native DOS mini computer with sound blaster support that can run all those 90s classics flawlessly. Emulation is fun and all but it’s not really there IMO, especially for running stuff from the mid to late 90s.
15:50 - _"WindowResolution"_ did *_NOT_* actually set the 1280x960 resolution you requested in the config file at 14:01. It is actually 1280x800 here (15:50). But when the PacPC game actually started at 16:06 the box increased in size and did appear to be at the requested 1280x960 resolution as it went off screen a bit.
I run Dosbox in an Ubuntu Virtual Machine. it starts up in Dosshell and like in the good old days I can start the following programs from there: Wordperfect 5.1 and the games Winter and Wolfenstein 3D.
Chris - this brought back some DOS memories. Although retro games are great, i also used a lot of work programs on DOS including a word processor called Wordperfect. I still have a lot of data locked in this old format. Do you know if this is still available and would work in Dosbox?
WordPerfect works very well in DOSBox -- I did a demo in my recent "Top 5 Retro Applications" video (it appears as #1 at the end): th-cam.com/video/gI0Joz5ZT-g/w-d-xo.html
I use dosbox on my linux computer. I also run dosbox on my old 486. Now I know where to get that pacman game again. I wore out the floppy disk with that on. Best wishes.
Fun fact: You can install a port of DOSBox on a modified PlayStation 3 and run DOS titles and even Windows 3.1 runs fine if you're looking for some Chip's Challenge. So if you got an old PS3 knocking around you can use it as a retro games machine.
I'm afraid you made a terrible mistake. The fourth of the Pac People is not called Clyde.... His name is Cylde, actually !!! Look again at the splash screen @ 7:08
batch file would also let you swap config files, but can you start dosbox from dosbox ? maybe by quitting and having started in a bash loop it would reload, bash loop could ask to restart or exit.
@@jyvben1520 Sorry, but I do not know English very well. Anyway, this is what my bat files look like: start "" ..\..\DOSBox -conf dosbox.conf exit The rest of the commands are saved in the conf file.
Hey Man, Guess Who? I'm A Big Fan Of DOSBox Too But You Committed A Faux Pas At 5:35! That's A Backslash, Not A Forward Slash! We Can Still Be Friends Though. 8-)
@@ExplainingComputers I Get It, You're Gonna Talk About Zeroes, Ones & Transistors, Lots Of Transistors! You Make Sundays Fun Days! Love Your Work, Man!
Hmm, on my HP laptop, for the mount command I couldn't type the backslash "\". I even tried pasting it from notepad but no dice. So as a work-around, I edited the config file as you did around 15:35 mins (after backing up the original). Strange, googling this and no one had this fix.
Any repositories for 1990's Unix (Linux) games? I remember a multi player tank type game (not tank) that was run on HP-UX years ago. Was looking to see if there was a version for Linux.
I do not know about online repositories, but there are nineties cd's on archive.org that have games and applications on them. Even older linux distros, that while no longer supported, would be interesting to see if they work on dosbox if you are a curious linux user. Definitely works with PCEM.
Bring old memory of dos games. Good starter guide for people who want to run dos box.
As usual, you provide just the information I was looking for! My 79 year old mother wants to play her old games. I have a couple computers just sitting around and she is more than welcome to have one. I can follow your instructions, make her a cheat sheet for the commands and she can happily enjoy her games again! Thank you!
Huh, I always thought Mr. Barnatt would be the kind of teacher that when he catches you playing games at class time, he would admonish you... But no, he will teach you how to better configure your game 😂
"Gaming in my class??? at 640x480??? Not on my watch. Here let me fix it!"
No, he would try to beat your high score!
We need more like these
we had a teacher that let us make a real dnd style text based game wiht a ascii map and i made a custom dbase for it to have monsters and animals
they ended up getitng us make hte software that became hardware for the schools cafeteria inventory program.
Just a quick tip: the fastest way to get a game running it's simply to drag the .exe file to the DosBox icon at the desktop... this way opens DosBox executing the game instead of with the prompt
Yes, but this is against the laws of Linux
I never play DOS games on Android and i have no Windows. But i like to program tiny DOS executable.
I can start a DOS game faster than someone can find, drag, and drop it into DOSBox. I setup a Windows shortcut to run a batch file I created in the game's folder, with an exit command at the end to close DOSBox. The batch file is mainly to change the CPU cycle count for that particular game, plus any additional commands (such as pause and echo commands to communicate additional information).
*NOTE:* DOSBox gets confused when trying to access a game's CONFIG executable, due to DOSBox having its own CONFIG executable. Using batch files allows me to run DOSBox's CONFIG executable from a subdirectory, and then return to the game's root directory to run its own CONFIG executable.
I must have been using DOS-Box for playing the original Master Of Orion [from 1993] for something like 20 years now - and until watching this video I did not now it had a native key-mapper function. So thank you Chris for bringing up this feature
Oh, and a quick hint for when a game runs too fast or slow in DOSbox: Ctrl+F11 to slow down, Ctrl+F12 to speed up.
I use DOSBox for DOS based engraving and CAD/CAM software. I have found that if I run those in compatability mode in Win2000 the CPU heat goes way up. So in DOSBox using the CPU clock cycles option I can adjust the CPU loading to reduce heating.
Now - if only there was a way to use a parallel port security dongal on the raspberry Pi...
Especially important since most DOS games used CPU cycles to time events, rather than the clock.
@@gregbentzinger8263 I found a mention or two of parallel port HATs for the R-Pi. Possibly a USB to parallel port adapter, intended no doubt for Windows, might be persuaded to work. Beyond the capacity of my two brain cells, though.
DOSBox is a fantastic piece of software and I have been using it for over 10 years. It's great for us oldies that grew up playing DOS games in the 80's and 90's to relive our wild previous lives. I run on a Linux platform and run DBGL (DOSBox Game Launcher) on top of DOSBox which is a useful tool for setting up and running games without the need to enter the commands through the DOS window
Belated thanks: I've been dosbox-ing on my Pi 3b+ for some time thanks to this video helper.
Thanks, and great to hear that you are making excellent use of a Pi 3. :)
It's been years since I did DOS but for some reason, you never forget all the essential commands.
Great topic! I had kept a DOS/Win95 PC around for years to be able to play some of my old favorites like Master of Orion. But the motherboard died a couple of years ago, so now I look forward to installing dosbox and reliving the good old days!
Run DOSBox if you like, but don't send your old PC to scrap. Original hardware is very desirable, and there are options for keeping old systems running (CF drive solutions, cannibalizing chips from dead cards, etc). If you sell it, please charge a fair price-don't gouge potential buyers.
OMG THANK YOU!! I was recently just trying to get this all figured out just right on my Pi4, got mixed up among different tutorials online. Your videos are always great, and this one in particular is super timely for me!
Love the dry humor. "I've been eaten by little ghosts which is all very sad indeed."
Dosbox reminds me of good ol' days of playing LucasArts games. My favourite ones were Indiana Jones and Monkey Island. Awesome video. A good Sunday to all of us. 👍
Great video. Finally they talk about the Conf file so that you don't have to re-enter everything every time. unfortunately they didn't mention how to integrate CD drives. but just the fact of showing where this Conf file is located is worth its weight in gold. Thank you.
Great video as always!
Recently I used Dosbox but I noticed a limitation, when you run an multi-floppy disk installer (like Microsoft Assembler - Setup.exe), Dosbox don't allow you to change the floppy disks (hack: you need to manually rename Disk2.img to Disk1.img to continue).
Then I learned about Dosbox-X an opensource version of DosBox that fix this and other limitations, including menus for easy access to settings.
Oh my... Using DOSBox and its IMGMOUNT command I was able to install my WordPerfect 5.1 again!
This is working very well.
Finally... I am able to read my still unconverted word processing files from the old days.
Now I only need to find a way to setup a general text printer for outputting these old files...
Thanks Chris for pointing out this wonderful tool!
Great to hear. :)
Been hoping Chris would cover DOSBox use and configuration for years. Sweet!
Dosbian is something that works wonderfully on the Pi and boots straight into the MS-DOS environment. Excellent when yo want to have something that just does MS-DOS very much like a real old fashioned PC would. I believe in the same guise there's a version of the software booting straight into an Amiga environment. Amibian. Of course it does make the Raspberry Pi into a bit of a one-trick pony and with DOSBox running it from the GUI / Desktop environment keeps the system more versatile and capable of doing more besides doing the retro computing thing. I also found a Commodore 64 variant - great if you put a raspberry Pi in a C64 case with something like a Keyrah! :)
I always liked the idea of just switching on my Raspberry Pi & getting a menu with options to just jump into a fully set up older system with dynamically expanding storage for each. There are some options to run something similar from USB sticks but nothing as simple as this I've found yet. Everytime I've attempted to set something up like this I seem to run into issues with my Pi SSD or screen resolution issues (I have a HDMI Ultrawide monitor). Puppy Linus seems to be the closest to being able to provide whats needed to set up but I really wish it was as easy as just switch on, choose from a menu and see the basic or Dos prompt.
@@Corialtavi I have had similar issues with my ultra wide, it seems a 4:3 DVI monitor for me is the best way to go for things like this. Converting the HDMI to DVI and do the sound separately. If you gave wide screen monitors going through the desktop variants of these emulators from the GUI might be the best option than.
Looks like I know what I might be doing over the weekend! Installing DOSBox to my laptop, searching and picking through the sites you mentioned for some games, and then having myself a good time. It'd be a step up from the usual Aisleriot Solitaire. :)
Chris has gone wild 😜
Needs a blue plaque.
Christopher Barnatt lived
here.
Chris is hip
Just for historical accuracy. The correct stanza (1:22) is 5..4..3..2..1..Thunderbirds are go! Great video. I was back in 1988 for a moment.
I know . . . I was mis-quoting! :)
I watch your videos every Sunday, but I must admit I have enjoyed this one extremely. Does this mean that I am old? Thank you and keep it up!
Yes definitely the golden era of DIY frontier computing
My request for retro content has been granted! 😁
Great video as always.
Thanks. :)
Your weekly videos are always interesting, Christopher. Thank you and please keep them going. This one really made me smile.
CD...
Thanks Peter.
These old DOS games are still the best!
I used Dosbox to install old accounting software so I could access data from 10 years ago with printing supported. It was free instead of hundreds of dollars for professional solutions.
And a lot more secure considering that few would bother to look into dosbox to find a program that held critical information.
Chris, thank you - I've now finally managed to dig into my old 486 archive folder from 1995 & have got my old pure-DOS planet/gravity simulator working!!! I even had to adjust output from surface to opengl to get variable DOSBox resolutions.
Fantastic!
Thanks Chris, have just been playing the original DOS Doom from 1993. Spent ages working out the Linux file system because of one of your videos and now I've gone back to having a C drive :-)
I'm using dosbox from eons but your tuts are always illuminating
Clear and complete as always ♥️
LOVE your PRODUCT and your _WORK_ , pardna !
ALL the VERY _BEST_ to you and yours, from Texas ! -
C.
Thanks.
Thank you Chris! I spent this evening getting the LED to blink on my RPI PICO, then played SIMCITY2000 in DOSBox on my RPI400 - and all thanks to your videos.
Thank you for this video, I have been using Dosbox for about 10 years in Linux, mainly to review an old C/C++ course on floppy disks of 1990, it is possible to run also the turboC++3.0 compiler; it is also possible to use non English keyboards downloading a proper file from the translation section of the download page
Thanks to DosBox I was able finish Ultima IV after 36 years last summer. Didn't make it on my C64.
Thanks for covering this. A great way to play those old games.
I remember playing Pacman in arcades when I was a teenager. Later, as an adult, I bought a C64 and played it on there as well. I never owned a PC as I moved to the Amiga and then from there to Linux so I really didn't play any DOS games at all that weren't ports. I'm running a Pi4 as my desktop now so I'll have to give this a try. Thanks for the video.
I appreciate this DOSBox tutorial. Thanks for making it! Looking forward to your next video.
Thanks Perry.
Another thing you could cover in this series is the different forks of doxbox that make it more user-friendly and more support for more games
Magic DosBox is a virtual machine for Android that allows you to run PC MS-DOS games on smartphones and tablets. It runs a little faster then standard DosBox and it's a breeze to setup. No PC version unfortunately.
Fantastic. There are several "front ends" also available for DosBox. Could you cover them in a follow-up video?
Absolutely amazing video, my only feedback is I'm a little surprised you didn't even mention FreeDOS as an option
really indepth tutorial to help me get into DOSbox, cheers mate.
As I watching your video, the thought cross my mind that why waste DOS Box on games only - it would give Word Perfect and Lotus 123 a second life in 2020s. Thank you once again for an excellent video on retro computing.
this has gotta be the best bid you have ever produced!!
DOSbox: uniting Windows and Linux users via classic DOS games. If this video doesn't get 640k views, I will be sad.
640k views ought to be enough for anybody.
I think the Pi 400 was made to be a lovely little DosBOX... box
Very true.
Love msdos, actually found a complier once written in Batch File, only had five lines of code I think. Bring back some memories playing DOOM.
What a great informative video. I have been using another emulator but this looks to be so easy to use! Keep up the great videos!
As always, I learn something! I use DosBox for playing The Seventh Guest and The 11th Hour.
It really was the golden age. Computers were fun and interesting but had not yet taken over everything.
On Windows 10 I just drag and drop my programs onto the desktop DOSBox icon to play. Great video a lot of useful tips!!
Clyde was sick that day, so they had to use his brother Cylde apparently for picture day.
:)
Lots of fun Chris. Thanks for another great video.
Hi Steve.
This was such a great video. Thanks. Very smooth, and easy to listen to.
Still using DosBox on my android tablet to run legacy dos games!
You are truly a wild man! Enjoyed the video.
Some tips:
* Tou can also use scalers to make the windowed mode bigger if you can't use anything other than surface. normal2x or normal3x is the recommended scaler if you only want to make it bigger, not interpolate it.
* There's a -noconsole parameter which disables the console window when running.
* You can have as many configuration files as you want, you can make a custom shortcut which automatically runs the game if the autoexec section has the proper mount, drive switching commands and of course the executable name. Using the exit command at the end of the section automatically closes Dosbox after you exit the game.
* I also recommend to use the mixer command, especially if you use the tip above, to avoid game audio being too loud. I usually put a 'mixer master 50' to start with half volume level.
In the 00s I visited a data centre with a lot of legacy systems. There were some PCs that emulated OS/2 in order to run some server application that had never been ported to any newer systems.
My! That was fantastic. Now I can time travel without those expensive 3D worm holes. Thank you so a lot!
It is even possible install Windows 95/98 on Dosbox (Dosbox-x fork) with 3Dfx support even making 3D GPU support available. It does work, but it is quite involved to get up and running. When it works though, it's quite sublime. But nothing beats booting up a real retro system - as long as it works. I had to convert my PIII to using Compact flash for harddrives etc. I find emulation fascinating as it does away with hardware/software limitations - quite interesting for preserving functionality that would otherwise be lost too.
Is there any input latency/lag in Doxbox-X + 3dfx emulation? Because if there's not, there is very little point in messing with the real hardware.
@@Arti9m surprisingly little, if you switch back and forth you’ll notice the real hardware is very consistent with the emulation being slightly less consistent in some games more than others. For many this would be a good enough replacement to relive old gaming memories. For others it not being real hardware or the slight frame time differences and imperfections occurring me be jarring enough not to have anything to do with it.
@@Arti9m for the ones with a hardware perspective, who like to tinker with machines, devices, like repairing things, maintaining things hardware wise there will be a point messing with the real thing. I like both and I am amazed what can be done through software and hardware emulation these days. And how versatile and powerful those single board computers are these days. :)
I like Dosbox-X because it has a menubar to make it easier to change settings and swap disk images. Its also more up to date with compatibility and stuff.
Thunderbirds are Chris’s rubbering figures!
Lady Penelope and her pink Rolls Royce was my 1st crush 😁
@@madworld. How odd, I sincerely dislike puppets. To each his own, I suppose....
Greetings Chris and thank you for taking us back to the good old days with this heartwarming informative video, but I think you need mapping yourself before the next video 😊👍🏾
15:25 Everything you said is correct, but I think it's a good habit to put file paths in quotation marks, in case there are any spaces. E.g, mount c "c:\dos progs". You were wise to put an underscore instead of a space, but not everyone is.
I was hoping to see what's inside the Classic dir, but unfortunately the time passed very fast,
I hope you can make a video about your old BASIC programs you made in the gold old days, If I remember you showed one in a previous video (something like shooting a spaceship) but I wish to see more (maybe under its own playlist),
Thanks Chris, you brought back some memories I thought I forgot
Fully convinced now that you spend a lot of time studying computers and not playing games ;-)
True! :)
Good day for a topic touching platform independence.
We need a native DOS mini computer with sound blaster support that can run all those 90s classics flawlessly. Emulation is fun and all but it’s not really there IMO, especially for running stuff from the mid to late 90s.
Again a nice video of one of my favorite TH-camr :) Something to do on my Raspi 400 in the near future. Thank you for the information :)
15:50 - _"WindowResolution"_ did *_NOT_* actually set the 1280x960 resolution you requested in the config file at 14:01. It is actually 1280x800 here (15:50).
But when the PacPC game actually started at 16:06 the box increased in size and did appear to be at the requested 1280x960 resolution as it went off screen a bit.
Good spot! :)
I run Dosbox in an Ubuntu Virtual Machine. it starts up in Dosshell and like in the good old days I can start the following programs from there: Wordperfect 5.1 and the games Winter and Wolfenstein 3D.
2:45 I think I need to find myself some jumpers to set the right settings for my Soundblaster to work properly 😂
Excellent video. I will try this on my raspberry pi.
Chris - this brought back some DOS memories. Although retro games are great, i also used a lot of work programs on DOS including a word processor called Wordperfect. I still have a lot of data locked in this old format. Do you know if this is still available and would work in Dosbox?
WordPerfect works very well in DOSBox -- I did a demo in my recent "Top 5 Retro Applications" video (it appears as #1 at the end): th-cam.com/video/gI0Joz5ZT-g/w-d-xo.html
Very cool I searched for this information for a long time, thank you very much.
Ooooh DOS! I feel very old now.
Wow I'm 4th...lol fastest ever TY 4 The vid...Happy 4th America!!! May you keep your independence 4 ever!!!
I use dosbox on my linux computer. I also run dosbox on my old 486. Now I know where to get that pacman game again. I wore out the floppy disk with that on. Best wishes.
Runs PC GEOS 2.0 and BreadBox 4.X perfectly. DOSBox is great.
Knowing that this is the era of gaming I'm most familiar with, I feel like I'm from the stone age!
Loved it now we need to write some batch files to create a simple menu to start a game for example
Oh heck yeah.
Next please fire up Dune II Building of a Dynasty :)
Excelent explanation and good software to use again good stuff
Thanks for the comprehensive tutorial
Hi, I noticed in PACPC the name clyde is spelled wrong(CYLDE). I wonder if that's been there since 1995
Great video as always 👍☺️
Love this opportunity of playing old programs from the past
Thanks for sharing your experience with all of us 👍😀
Super Pac-Mon looks like a recreation of Super-Pac, the game featured in the early 80's movie, Joysticks.
Fun fact: You can install a port of DOSBox on a modified PlayStation 3 and run DOS titles and even Windows 3.1 runs fine if you're looking for some Chip's Challenge.
So if you got an old PS3 knocking around you can use it as a retro games machine.
I'm afraid you made a terrible mistake. The fourth of the Pac People is not called Clyde.... His name is Cylde, actually !!! Look again at the splash screen @ 7:08
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I have played this game innumerable times, and only spotted this today. Talk about being unobservant!
plus mispronounced the letter Z as "xed" instead of correctly as "xee"
@Boodysaspie No Welsh name has less than 76 letters in it. They even considered suing Microsoft for the 8.3 filename limitation.
It's simply spelled wrong. Clyde is a name, Cylde is not.
I wonder if it would support LocoScript Pro for PC. I could really use a working version of that.
Windows 3.1 is also a DOS programm that runs fine on it. Only problem is finding propper sound drivers.
Windows 95 and 98 also work on it, but slower.
You can also create bat files for quick start.
batch file would also let you swap config files, but can you start dosbox from dosbox ?
maybe by quitting and having started in a bash loop it would reload, bash loop could ask to restart or exit.
@@jyvben1520 Sorry, but I do not know English very well. Anyway, this is what my bat files look like:
start "" ..\..\DOSBox -conf dosbox.conf
exit
The rest of the commands are saved in the conf file.
Hey chris will you make a video about emulators and virtual machine
Hey Man, Guess Who? I'm A Big Fan Of DOSBox Too But You Committed A Faux Pas At 5:35! That's A Backslash, Not A Forward Slash! We Can Still Be Friends Though. 8-)
I make more and more error as I get older. In next week's video I'm going to explain how CPUs work. Wish me luck . . .
@@ExplainingComputers I Get It, You're Gonna Talk About Zeroes, Ones & Transistors, Lots Of Transistors! You Make Sundays Fun Days! Love Your Work, Man!
Hmm, on my HP laptop, for the mount command I couldn't type the backslash "\". I even tried pasting it from notepad but no dice. So as a work-around, I edited the config file as you did around 15:35 mins (after backing up the original). Strange, googling this and no one had this fix.
Perhaps you were thinking of Michael Bars who did the Pac Man Rap?
Some games dont execute well in Dosbox. In Dos game "Wolfenstein 3D" it doesn't goto level 2 after completing level 1. A blank screen comes up
Missed a bit, that you can install Windows 3.11 or Win95 A in DOSBox.
Any repositories for 1990's Unix (Linux) games? I remember a multi player tank type game (not tank) that was run on HP-UX years ago. Was looking to see if there was a version for Linux.
I do not know about online repositories, but there are nineties cd's on archive.org that have games and applications on them. Even older linux distros, that while no longer supported, would be interesting to see if they work on dosbox if you are a curious linux user. Definitely works with PCEM.
I love those dos games...
Outpost 1 and many other games...
i was just flicking round youtube and saw this, so here i am with the makers of time