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Programs

Submitted by aaa_admin on 19. November 2007 - 13:20.


DOSBox

Many times I have wished to play some old DOS games on my Windows 2000 workstation. And many times I have been disappointed with incompatibility. In last few years only solution was dual boot with compatibility drivers for sound and graphic cards, and huge basket of luck. There was no real and effective DOS emulator on the scene. Then DOSBox appeared. DOSBox is completely free of charge and open source DOS emulator for modern operating systems like Windows (2000 and XP), BeOS, Linux, MacOS X.. . DOSBox also emulates 286/386 CPU real mode, Directory FileSystem/XMS/EMS, a SoundBlaster card (and others) for excellent sound compatibility with older games. There were a lot of problems in earlier versions, but now over a thousand games are supported, many of them are completely playable (Full Throttle… finally :-) Only bad thing with DOSBox is that that you have to have a real beast to run some complex games. 400 MHz machine acts like old XT 80086… Heck, you can even play original Tetris once again! :-)

If you are unsure about how to use DosBox, we have a step-by-step tutorial HERE

      

 VDM Sound

VDMSound is a program that overcomes what has probably been the most exasperating limitation of DOS boxes since Windows NT - sound support. VDMSound emulates SoundBlaster compatible as well as Adlib music. In development are improvements to the existing joystick emulation, and possibly VESA support. It is a self-contained, 100% software emulation program that is completely independent of your audio hardware type and settings. VDMSound works with any soundcard, and will even work on computers that have no audio hardware at all. This software is highly recommended if your computer is too slow for running DOSBox as it will start most games in regular WinXP command prompt.

      

 WinFrotz

WinFROTZ is a Windows interpreter for all old text-based Infocom games. It was written by Stefan Jokisch in 1995-96, and has been ported to MS-DOS, OS/2, Windows 95/NT, the Amiga, Unix, and the Apple IIgs. Really easy to use, to open a game you must go to:
- File
- Open New Story
- Select a .z5 game file
- Enjoy!
Nice features are the possibility to change background and font colour, as well as what font to use and its size, and many commands that makes your typing easier. A helpful help file (duh!) is also included. You\'ll need this to play most Interactive Fiction (text-based) games.

      

 RPG Maker 2000

Many of todays freeware RPG games are made using this system. It is based on the ASCII engine that is most known to Nintendo players. Not only does this program run games located on Abandonia, but it can even be used to create your own games. It will enable you to enjoy the old-school look and feel of RPG games under any modern Windows system. A very handy tool indeed.

      

 Daemon Tools

Daemon Tools is an advanced application for loading CD images as virtual drives. You will need this program in order to use the CD images of some games we provide on the site. Daemon Tools works under Windows9x/ME/NT/2000/XP with all types of CD/DVDROM drives (IDE/SCSI) and supports nearly any CD protection.

      

 Norton Commander

Norton Commander is an absolute must for every experienced DOS user. It is the Windows Explorer of yesterday, but better ;) Windows clones of this legendary utility are still being made today. Using NC you can browse through directories, move, copy, rename, view and edit files, see disk usage statistics, extract zip files etc. To say the least, the features are very numerous. An absolute must for both simple&serious DOS file operations.

Image files (requires image mounting software! Use the link on the left if you don't know how to work with .img files. *.img files can be copied to real floppies using English unpacked NC 5.5 disk copying utility that is included in unpacked NC 5.5 in the link on the left):

NC5.5 english
NC5.5 german
NC5.5 polish
NC5.5 russian

      

 SCUMM VM

ScummVM is a 'virtual machine' that allows quite a few classic adventure games to be run in Windows with sound. It is designed to run: Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2, Beneath A Steel Sky , Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2, Flight of the Amazon Queen, and games based on LucasArt's SCUMM system such as Monkey Island , Day of the Tentacle , Sam and Max and more. On their site you can also find freeware CD versions of some games that are supported by SCUMM VM.