Play classic games with DOSBox

If you lived through the ’90s, you probably have fond memories of gaming classics such as Red Alert, Doom, and Starcraft. Despite the clunky graphics and witless AI, it’s hard to recapture the sense of excitement that came from giving Stalin a bad day, or battling against the forces of hell on the moons of Mars. Sadly, most of these vintage gaming classics don’t work natively on modern PCs. This dilemma is the focus of the DOSBox project, an emulator designed to mimic Intel x86. The emulator’s primary focus is to play games that were released prior to Windows XP (2001), but in practice, you can actually run a number of DOS/Windows programs. The DOSBox website maintains a database of all supported software (www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?letter=a).

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