With your CD drive now mounted in DOSBox, change the active drive in DOSBox to the CD drive by entering the command ‘D:’. Assuming this is drive ‘d’ on your PC, the command you need to enter into DOSBox is: Mount d d:\ -t cdrom -ioctl Next, you’ll need to mount your CD drive to DOSBox.
#How to play dos games install#
To install a DOS-based CD-ROM game, first create the folder in Windows where you’d like to install it (we’ll use ‘c:\DOSGames’ as an example), then enter the following command into DOSBox: mount c c:\DOSGames I hope that you have found this guide helpful! If you need more assistance, or some aspects of the guide are not clear to you, please post on the Discussion Forum in the "Getting old games to work" group.If you have a DOS game on CD-ROM, don’t add it to your kitschy CD wall mirror just yet, because you can install it using DOSBox. THUS ENDS THE GUIDE TO RUNNING DOS GAMES IN WINDOWS XP.
#How to play dos games Pc#
#How to play dos games how to#
Sometimes when you run old games, the error message that results when you run the game will pop up and disappear so quickly that it's impossible to read it! Here's how to fix that problem: Thanks for the tips guys! (Don't sue me!!!) One more thing, the majority of this guide was paraphrased from an article in the July 2002 issue of Computer Gaming Magazine, my favorite gaming mag. for more general tips on getting games to run, please read the Frequently Asked Questions page. ) Also please keep in mind that these tips are for Windows XP only. Of course, it's important to remember that some games just won't work on your modern computer, no matter how hard you try, so don't be too disappointed. However, have no fear! This page will hopefully help you to get the majority of DOS games running under XP. So, while this makes for better speed and stability, it also makes for sometimes lousy backwards compatibility. Windows XP (and Windows 2000), unlike Windows 95, 98, and ME, are NOT built on an MSDOS foundation. it can be thought of as more of a simulation of DOS. There is no DOS in Windows XP! What is called the "command prompt" is not really DOS. Part 10: Smashy smashy! (Closing thoughts)įirst things first. : How to get DOS games to work in Windows XP!