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Play MS-DOS Games on Vista

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If you try to run an old DOS game on Vista, you'll probably get an error "This system does not support fullscreen mode." Fortunately, this isn't a dead end. Download a copy of DOSBox, the greatest MS-DOS emulator for any platform (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and more), and try running your game under DOSBox. Not only will you get support for old-school graphics like CGA and EGA, you can even run it in a window!

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Posted by Brian Jepson | Jan 8, 2007 06:59 PM
Retro Gaming, Windows | Permalink | Comments (3)

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Posted by: on December 2, 2007 at 11:01 PM

DOSBox would be alot nicer if I could make batch files to speed things up.

Posted by: farrahrani on June 28, 2008 at 4:41 AM

i am running vista, and for some reason dosbox will not allow me to make a colon (:)
I have tried using allcaps, using shift and different combinations, but I am unable to do it, which means i cannot access the drive the file is on. Is anyone else having this problem?

Posted by: ltdistributors on July 29, 2008 at 2:00 PM

I have Vista and I can't use the "\" it comes up "]" for some odd reason. So I am unable to mount the drive... any ideas? The colon problem is fixed by usind the LEFT SHIFT KEY for some reason only the LEFT SHIFT seems to get the colon.