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A Windows 95 game on Windows 95. So, I recently purchased Civilization 2 from a library (strange location, yes, but bear with me), so I've been trying to play it on my computer. Of course, it doesn't work on Windows 10, so I booted up DOSbox, installed Win95.img, and managed to get it booted. 173 rows b You have a Windows 95 img file c You are using Dosbox 0.74 d You know enough to be.
You will need a copy of the Windows 95 boot disk.
Step 1: DOSBox Setup
Edit
DOSBOX.CONF
(the configuration file for DOSBox) and some of the lines with this code (if it exists):- A Complete Guide to Install Windows 95 on DOSBox. In dosbox, emulator, legacy windows, tutorial, windows - on 10:42 PM - 64 comments. Looking at how OS had marvelled over these three decades starting from the 90s somehow makes me reminiscent the good old days of Win 3.1, Win95 and Win98.
- Copy over setup files and start Windows 95 installation. All you need to do is move over the entire WIN95 directory (the one containing all the CAB files) from the CD to your mounted and now formatted image. It should be only about 34 MB in size. Unmount c.img and restart DOSBox. We'll now start the installation.
output=surface -> output=opengl
vmemsize=x -> vmemsize=8
memsize=16 -> memsize=512
core=auto -> core=dynamic
cputype=auto -> cputype=pentium
cycles=auto -> cycles=max
voodoo=default -> voodoo=opengl
(this will be the end of DOSBOX.CONF)
[autoexec]
Dosbox Windows 95 Online Game
SET GLIDE=600
(add these after you have made WIN95VHD.img)
imgmount a '/path/to/Windows95b.img' -size 1,440
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imgmount c '/path/to/WIN95VHD.img' -size 2097152
Step 2: Make the Virtual Hard Disk
Run this command for DOSBox Daum builds:
Z:> imgmake WIN95VHD.img -t hd -size 2048 -nofs
Or download the bochs tools, extract the archive, and run
bximage.exe
. Run the BXIMAGE.BAT under windows or wine to make an image. Here is the command for creating the image bximage
Disk Image Creation Tool for Bochs
$Id: bximage.c,v 1.32 2006/06/16 07:29:33 vruppert Exp $
Do you want to create a floppy disk image or a hard disk image?
Please type hd or fd. [hd]
What kind of image should I create?
Please type flat, sparse or growing. [flat]
Enter the hard disk size in megabytes, between 1 and 129023
[10] 2048
I will create a 'flat' hard disk image with
cyl=xxx
heads=xx
sectors per track=xxx
total sectors=xxxxxxx
total size=2048 megabytes
What should I name the image?
[c.img] WIN95VHD.img
Writing: [] Done.
I wrote xxxxxxxxxx bytes to WIN95VHD.img.
This command creates the Windows 95 Virtual Hard Disk Image which will be used as the target image for installation files. This file can be found in the same directory as 'DOSBOX.CONF`. If you cannot mount the image, use a folder instead.
Step 3: Boot the drive
After you have made the VHD and added the lines for AUTOEXEC.BAT, restart DOSBox. To boot the drive, use command
boot
to boot from a drive.Z:> boot -l a
You will now need to partition the VHD. Refer to the Windows 95 Installation Guide Step 2 for how to use make partitions here. You will also need to format the partition, which is part of Step 2.
Step 4: Getting the setup files
You will now need to get the setup files. Mount the WIN95VHD.img file we created earlier and copy the directory
.WIN95
from the Windows 95 Disc. If you cannot mount the IMG file, then mount
the cdrom
drive as D, mkdir C:WIN95
, and copy D:WIN95*.* C:WIN95
. Start the Windows 95 Setup by using the commands:A:> c:
C:> cd win95
C:WIN95> setup.exe /is
Do note after Windows 95 is ready to restart during setup, close DOSBOX, remove the floppy mount command and change the
boot -l a
to boot -l c
. Information about setup is found here.Play DOS Games on Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 with DOSBox
The ultimate solution to play DOS games on your PC with Windows 10, Windows 8.1, 8, 7, Vista or XP is DOSBox. DOSBox emulates DOS and the environment in which DOS ran in the past (like an old pc), including memory management and sound configuration, but with the power of your computer today. On this page we'll show you how to make the classic DOS game Prince of Persia or any other DOS game work. You can also play Prince of Persia directly on Windows 10. If you want to install a DOS game from an original CD-rom, you can find instructions here.
Download and install DOSBox
- Go to the download section on www.dosbox.com
- Download the desired package (in this example that will be the Windows (win32) installer)
- Install DOSBox
Download and extract Prince of Persia (or any other DOS game)
- Go to one of the many websites that offer shareware and freeware downloads of classic DOS games, for example www.dosgames.com
- Search for and download the desired game, in our example Prince of Persia
- Create a new folder on your computer, for example C:gamesdosprince
- Extract the downloaded zip file into that folder
Get the game working in DOSBox
Start DOSBox from Windows by double clicking the desktop icon. Once in DOSBox:
- Type in mount c c:gamesdos and press enter (this creates a virtual drive C: within DOSBox, which points to the GamesDOS folder on your local C: drive)
- If your games folder contains spaces, you have to put quotes around the folder path, for example: mount c 'c:gamesdos games'
- Type in c: and press enter to go the virtual C: drive
- Type in dir and press enter to look at the contents of the virtual C: drive
- Type in cd PRINCE and press enter to open the Prince folder
- Type in PRINCE and press enter to start the game
Automatic mounting
As you always will need the virtual drive in DOSBox to play your game, it is recommended to put the mount command in your DOSBox configuration file. This way the games folder will be mounted automatically when you start DOSBox:
- Open the configuration file:
- Windows 7: Press CTRL + ESC (or click the start button), type in dosbox and the options file should appear in the search results, click it
- Windows 8: Press the Windows key + Q, type in dosbox and the options file should appear in the search results, click it
- Scroll down to the autoexec section (at the bottom of the file)
- Copy the mount commands below the comments (indicated by a hash). The lines below apply to this example:
[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
# You can put your MOUNT lines here.
mount c c:gamesdos
c:
# to start Prince of Persia automatically when installed:
cd prince
prince - Save the configuration file and restart DOSBox.
Play a game from CD with DOSBox
So you have found the original installation CD of a DOS game. But you can't install the game, because you need to do that in DOS! No worries! We have a guide which explains how to install and play a game from CD, all in DOSBox. Click here for more information!
Some DOS facts to keep in mind
In the DOS environment there are just 3 types of files that you can start/execute. These are .BAT, .COM and .EXE files. In this example (and in general when starting a DOS game), we'll look for files with .BAT (batch) and .EXE (executable) extensions. A batch file contains one or more lines of DOS commands and usually ends with the execution of a .EXE file. If you want to execute a .BAT or .EXE file in DOSBox, you can type in the file name without the extension. If there's a filename.bat and a filename.exe file in a folder, DOS will execute the filename.bat file first. If you don't want that, type in the entire filename including the extension.
DOSBox emulates the DOS environment, but doesn't support all DOS commands. It doesn't have to either. A list of supported DOS commands can be found on the DOSBox wiki section.
Supported games
With the method mentioned above, you can play a lot of classic DOS games. Here's an overview of some games, cherished by the DOSGamers crew, that you can play with DOSBox:
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On the DOSBox website you can find an extensive list of supported DOS games.
Other stuff
DOSBox in full screen or high resolution window.
Mount CD-rom, images or other stuff.
How to set the (default) DOSBox speed.
Problems with keyboard layout.
Graphical user interfaces for DOSBox.
Mount CD-rom, images or other stuff.
How to set the (default) DOSBox speed.
Problems with keyboard layout.
Graphical user interfaces for DOSBox.
How to install and use DOSBox on Youtube
Have a look at our video in which we explain how to play any DOS game with DOSBox.