How to Run & Play MS DOS Games on Computer?

Remember Old MS DOS Games? NO! Just see the Screenshots below and you will remember your good old days (I mean the Days, when you used to play DOS Games)!:

Now it’s really very easy to run these DOS Games on your Computer. You can Run and Play these DOS Games on Windows, Gentoo Linux, MAC OS X, Solaris, Fedora Core, Free BSD etc. This post contains very simple steps about How to Run and Play MS DOS Games on your Computer?

From where to download DOS Games for FREE:

Before going into How to Run DOS Games on your Computer?, lets see the sources from where you can download DOS Games for Free:

• DOS Games – This Website consists more than 500 Free DOS Games, which you can download and enjoy on your PC.
• DOS Games Archives – This Website consists around 300 DOS Games. These Games are either Freeware, Shareware, Playable Demo etc.
• Head over to Wikipedia’s DOS Games List, Check What Game you actually want to play and than Type Free Download <GAME NAME> DOS Game in Google!

How to Run these DOS Games on Windows Vista, Windows XP, Gentoo Linux, MAC OS X, Solaris, Fedora Core, Free BSD etc.?

Make sure the Game you downloaded is in .zip (WinZip Compressed Archive) Format. Following are the Steps for running DOS Game in Windows XP/Vista:

1. Suppose you downloaded Aladdin.zip on your Computer, Now Copy this .zip folder to your C: Drive and Extract it’s Content to a Folder say Aladdin.

2. Now Download DOSBox (An x86 Emulator with DOS) for Windows, Install the Software and Run the Application.

3. As soon as you run the Application, you will see a Screen with Z:\> Prompt like this:

4. Here we want to load Aladdin Game from C: Drive. So for this, Type Z:\>Mount C C:\Aladdin:

You will get a message Drive C is Mounted as Local Directory C:\Aladdin\

5. Now in order to access C: Drive, type Z:\>C:

The Z:\> Prompt will now change to C:\> Prompt

6. In the above step you have mounted C: Drive and the Program is ready for your Next Command. Now type C:/>Aladdin.exe:

This will Start the Game within the DOSBox Software.

The above steps remain same for all other Games. You need to carefully pick the correct.exe file by browsing the Game Folder Manually. Almost all Games are DOSBox Compatible, but there are some which are not.

For more Information on other Operating System, you can always refer to this DOSBox Wiki Page or Browse through DOSBox Forums

Happy Gaming!

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