Emulating a DOS machine

For the month of December I'm looking at Dos. #doscember
I show you how to emulate an old Pentium 120 Socket 7 PC on modern PC and install DOS 6.22.

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[dantyy]

Thank you so much for this awesome video

[tubr]

Nice demo. It should be noted that the HDD "Internal Controller" is only available on machines which actually have a physical HDD controller.
Which typically starts only with Pentium machines.

[ggpestano]

Great video. I also use 86Box to emulate old computers I had.

[kevinsteinman]

Nice video on Dos Emulation Mikey, I say around an A++. I have seen this about in the TwisterOS but never paided no attention to it. Now you got me started I'll have to play with it.

[VelidBiH]

Nice video. Box86 is a way to go since PCem programmer abandoned PCem project. I tried it for some old Win95 games (Warcraft II) and it worked perfect. (Nostalgia watching intro in computer store at the time I could not afford PC)

[joerhorton]

You can put all those files you need on one ISO image and mount it as a CD. Saves time.

[neogen]

That was excellent! Thank you! I'll take for a spin with some oldies

[upgrade]

I have used the VHD format for the C drive and then I can just mount the disk image in Windows 10

[Fred_le_lorrain]

Thanks for this software. We can recreate our old PCs from 80's to 90's. A virtual museum!
It's better than dosbox.

[dantyy]

Downloaded all files today Feb 20th, 2024. Followed instructions in video. Dos installation keeps saying Enter any key to reboot and repeat. Help

[enigma]

Not sure if it needs to be said or not but emulating PC hardware is quite taxing and you do needs a fairly beefy PC to run anything over a DX4-100 486 machine, the faster the emulated machine the more grunt you will need. The sweet spot for me is a 300MHz AMD K6/2 with a Voodoo 3 and a AWE32 soundcard anything more and it starts to get choppy, I have an i9-10850k CPU. There is a handy tool called 86Manager which allows you to configure the emulator without loading it up everytime.

[dodutils]

At the end of the video your are not listening to some "midi" you are listening to SoundBlaster music but you may use general midi emulation if you can emulate Roland MT-32 or Roland SCC-1, also for simpler emulation you can also use DosBox, no virtualisation, direct DOS startup then ... Run a game :-) and DosBox can be launched thru a DosBox Game launcher that preconfigure DosBox for a large amount of games (if you have the game files of course)

[Bricky]

What about using middle mouse button to ungrip your mouse, it depends on how many mouse buttons you choose there are on your mouse ("Two", "Three" or "Wheel")

[TheMuso]

One tip with images. YOu could also open the hard drive image directly with WinImage, and copy your files in. I also believe that if you used a VHD image on Windows, you could mount the VHD directly with Windows and copy things in that way as well.

Mac OS can mount .img files directly in the finder.

For Linux users, I am pretty sure most desktop environments have built in support for mounting .img files, although they may mount them read-only by default.

[johnnycastaway]

nice. wonder how the game compability are.. allso if gusmax works..

[dougjohnson]

Going to try this out. DosBox-X gives me issues on Linux with a second video card and runs slow so I end up running the Windows version with WINE.

[retrobrahhh]

How do you play a floppy game, like Batman Returns, if it's not in img format? Only setup, config, exe. I can play it by loading the folder in the CD ROM drive (is this correct? lol), but it says I can't install the game that way, only through the floppy drive. I'm just confused by the proper way to play regular (non CD) DOS games. Doesn't seem right to get to the files through the CD ROM drive.

[dhYT]

USB FDD doesn't work? I am very disappointed.

[leadingauctions]

Excellent video.

However, how can I run my DOS game from their floppies using a USB Floppy drive on a DOS emulator?

[dimn]

Hi, unfortunately you just showed to us a most easy way of dos emulation... but how about 3dfx for example (in dos or even in windows)? How about to show awe32 complatibility, for example in Duke3D, or other game, which have a direct support of this sound card, how about soundfonts? Does it works? Because from what you shown to us, its was just a lazy way of using dosbox, where you have a menus and you dont need to use dosbox commands like mount and others ;-). Show the real power and opportunities of 86Box, go on! :-). Anyway, I need to say, nice explanation for really beginners... And last question, does that emulation goes at least same fast, like a real pc on modern pc? To be honest, if ill find some time at Christmas, i want to try it too...