How Do You Use Dosbox?
The DOSBox emulator is a program that acts as a computer running the DOS operating system. Once you have the game downloaded and installed and have some games ready to go, you can follow these steps to get started playing DOS games in a small window on your current PC. Create a folder on your hard drive that will serve as the DOSBox program’s C drive. For this tutorial, we’ll use the folder name “games” on the PC’s C drive. This is where you will store games to be accessed by your DOSBox program. Put any games that you have downloaded into this new folder. Create separate folders for each of your games. For this tutorial, we’ll say there is a folder called “chess” that contains a DOS-based chess game. Run your DOSBox program. Two windows will appear; minimize–but don’t close–the DOSBox Status Window. When you see the Z:\ prompt in the main DOSBox window, type “mount c c:\games.” With this command, you are telling the DOSBox program where your emulated C drive will be located. Type “c
