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Recently I've had an itch to play a DOS game (i'm having it looked at) that I couldn't get working in W2K. After trying boot disks and a win98 version of the game, it still wouldn't work. I stumbled upon the DOSBox emulator and tried it out. It works great with full support for my USB mouse and gamepad as well as full sound card emulation. There's even an option to emulate modem support. So if you have some DOS games that you've been wanting to go back and play, I suggest you try it out:
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1
Here's their online help
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/wiki/
It takes a little command line fiddling, but it's documented fairly well. Plus once you've gotten it running well you can add your options to a config file and load them automatically each time. It should also make your geek side happy to realize that you're essentially emulating and x86 machine on a faster x86 machine. Hm, if you had a dual hyperthreaded machine you could emulate 4 original pentiums on 2 P4's...
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1
Here's their online help
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/wiki/
It takes a little command line fiddling, but it's documented fairly well. Plus once you've gotten it running well you can add your options to a config file and load them automatically each time. It should also make your geek side happy to realize that you're essentially emulating and x86 machine on a faster x86 machine. Hm, if you had a dual hyperthreaded machine you could emulate 4 original pentiums on 2 P4's...