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That's it! CD stands for "Change Directory", so you've changed the directory to TESTDRIV. Previously I had mentioned a game called TESTDRIV in my OLDGAMES folder. Hopefully, you're all set! Now, it's time to run the game. To navigate to that newly mounted drive just type in:

Now, just write what you wanted to call your new DOSBox drive, which as I said above, we called C. You can find instructions on how to mount other devices, such as floppy drives, in the mount section).Īfter you've done this, you will be prompted with a Z:\>. If you are running your game off a CD-ROM then make sure to use D: in place of C: in the following examples. In this example, D:\ -T cdrom tells DOSBox that my D:\ drive is a CD-ROM drive, and the first D, tells DOSBox what my new drive name should be called. (Note: "cdrom" is case sensitive and must be lowercase!) (Note: If you want to mount a CD-ROM instead of a folder, type this: Z:\> MOUNT D D:\ -t cdrom If you created a different directory, write in the directory you created.

C:\OLDGAMES: This is the directory I want to set as the new drive for DOSBox, because all my games are in it.

C: Tells the program what you want your new drive to be called (leaving it as C: is fine).

MOUNT: Tells the program to mount a directory.

So, type:ĭrive C mounted as local directory C:\OLDGAMES\ Essentially, it's going to become the C:\> drive of DOSBox. Remember that OLDGAMES directory you created in Step 1? You have to basically set that as new directory just for DOSBox. First, run dosbox.exe in your DOSBox folder. Now, the hardest part, getting games to run. I put a game in my OLDGAMES directory, TESTDRIV, which is Test Drive, an old racing game. I put DOSBox in C:\DOSBox, and my old games directory is C:\OLDGAMES. Also, make a folder to put all your old games in. If you are a Windows user, get the Win32 installer.Īfter downloading, install DOSBox to any directory. Download the release for your operating system.

This guide will use the 0.74 Windows 32-bit version which is available for download. In order to utilize all of DOSBox's features you need to first understand some basic concepts about the MS-DOS environment. This environment is complete enough to run many classic MS-DOS games completely unmodified.

6.2 Automatically Mounting Your DOS Games folderĭOSBox is an emulator that recreates a MS-DOS compatible environment (complete with Sound, Input, Graphics and even basic networking).