DOS games on windows7

[mightymouse]

Having a clearout a while back and came across some old DOS games that I used to play years ago. They were fun games but never had the computing power to do them justice, now I have the computing power windows7 spits them out as unworthy.

Any computer whizzes out there know of a simple remedy? tried the usual run in previous format, but they are previous to the run in previous formats.....

Trev

[Leonardomayo]

Re: DOS games on windows7

The only thing a quick google search yields is Dosbox, more Dosbox, and even more Dosbox. This seems to be the thing to use if needing to run Dos games on Windows 7. :P

[swanaldo]

Re: DOS games on windows7

Get an Xbox trev.

[typhoon_driver]

Re: DOS games on windows7

dosbox is the way to go. Great for monkey island!

[mightymouse]

Re: DOS games on windows7

Would get an X-box Swanny, but that would mean telling Pat she could not watch Coro, Enders, home and away......etc.....

[mightymouse]

Re: DOS games on windows7

Never heard of dosbox but will give it a try, cheers Gary.

Trev

[team_orr]

Re: DOS games on windows7

Dosbox and similar programs were always good when i was on PC, being on a Mac makes it slightly more complex. Fortunately the Broken Sword games were brought out on Mac! Very chuffed about that, but to answer your question, yes go for Dosbox.

[bobblebot2]

Re: DOS games on windows7

For Mac, you can always try Boxer http://boxerapp.com/. Its basically an OS X version of DOSBox.