Tag: DOS

Boxer is a DOS game emulator for Mac, which we first covered all the way back in 2008. It's grown up quite a bit since then, but its essential mission is the same: to allow you to play MS-DOS games on your Mac, hassle-free. It has delivered on that promise from the beginning, and continues to do so. Boxer is still based on the DOSBox emulator, but as you've undoubtedly gathered by now, adds its ...

There was a time when the vast majority of my time spent online was wrapped in the awesomeness of ASCII art and two-color interfaces. If you're anything like Sebastian or me, you get a little excited any time you come across a brand new app which harkens back to the days of the BBS. ... Like GTweak, which eschews the shiny, modern look most Windows tweaking apps go for in favor of good old ...

Plenty of people out there are still running the odd DOS application - many of them for business purposes. So what are you to do when that trusty old printer breaks down and you can't find a new one with a parallel port? Why not buy a fancy new USB-only printer and make use of a stupid Windows trick that's been around for a while? It's a fairly simple process. Step one is to install the ...

CMD is still an incredibly useful tool, but let's face it : it's older than dirt, and well overdue for some kind of an update. You could be waiting a coon's age for Microsoft to offer an official upgrade, so you may want to give Console a shot. Console is an open source project that adds both functionality and eye candy to the Windows command prompt. The tabbed interface helps keep taskbar ...

As much as I'd like it to not be the case, some of my customers still rely on clunky (but functional) DOS applications to manage their businesses. While their applications tend not to change, their hardware does - which invariably leads to problems. Take printing , example. If your business is stuck with a DOS application and restricts you to a half dozen or so "supported" printers, you may think ...

Lee's posts about gaming old school in your browser or on your PC have had me itching to get in on the old-school action myself. Unfortunately, because I use a Mac and prefer to stay in OS X when possible, some of the cooler emulators and browser ports are off limits. Sure, I can always play with the wicked cool Virtual ][ and get my Oregon Trail on like it's first grade all over again -- ...

Oh 1991. Things were so much simpler then. Computers measured memory in KB, not GB. And apparently a guy in a lab coat could "train" people to upgrade versions of DOS by "rapping." This promotional video seems to be aimed at businesses who would sell DOS 5.0 to their customers. It makes note of the fact that there are 60 million potential users, and that "it's going to be a cash machine for ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gaming_news/DOSBox_0_70_released_Old_PC_gamers_rejoice'; The fine folks working on the DOSBox cross-platform DOS emulator have released version 0.70. While DOSBox was already pretty capable of running many early PC programs including games like Sam & Max (pictured above running in DOSBox), there's a whole host of updates. Faster dynamic CPU core, which means ...

At long last, the FreeDOS project has reached the big one-oh. FreeDOS is an open source version of DOS that, according to its web site, is designed for three main purposes: Running old DOS games (like DOOM, etc.) Running old business software that only supports DOS Supporting an embedded DOS system, such as a computerized cash register or till The FreeDOS project began in 1994 and today ...

While everyone knows that DOS programs can be run in any version of Windows in the command prompt, if you've ever tried to play a classic DOS game on your modern system you may have been disappointed. If you're really intent on getting that classic version of Out of this World (Another World for our European friends) from 1991 working on your Windows XP box (or Mac OS X, Linux or even ...