Are there good DOS emulators?

[Akuma]

Sorry for the noobish question but is anyone experienced in DOS emulators? They are something I never did so I don't really know anything about them. Do they work and let they play you a real DOS CD-Rom with sound or is the integration of sound / cd-rom problematic? I'd really love to play some Novastorm and see if I still suck or built up some skills since then

[cools]

Use a virtual machine?

[drevans]

DosBox has always worked for me when I've needed to do that.

http://www.dosbox.com/

[Geckosan]

+1 for dosbox

[pubjoe]

Yep dosbox will do it.

I recently used it to play little big adventure and some original doom/doom2. The windoom and GLdoom or whatever other updates all suck as they are far too bright. Original Dos all the way.

[Rossyra]

DOSBox for me too

[dieKatze88]

Yep dosbox will do it.

I recently used it to play little big adventure and some original doom/doom2. The windoom and GLdoom or whatever other updates all suck as they are far too bright. Original Dos all the way.

Use Zdoom and set the gamma to not a million in the menu.

[Jaelus]

+1 for DOSBox. Also if your games are running too fast, Mo'Slo works wonders, but it's not an emulator.

[pubjoe]

Use Zdoom and set the gamma to not a million in the menu.

Thanks, I have used that before. I just thought I'd try the original floppy disk doom for a laugh and then realised that that is exactly the way Doom is best anyway.

If I do use zdoom again, as you suggest, I'll knock back the silly default gamma level and also disable all the touch-ups, such as the higher resolution, free-look, lighting effects, jumping, or whatever other nonsense. ...I think I even prefer NOT having separate strafe keys - fumbling slightly with 'alt' is more challenging and fun.

Doom (as in id's original levels) is best pure. It's also best played by NOT carrying over your ammo & life to the next level. Every level is designed to be played by starting with only a pistol and no armour.

[dieKatze88]

Use Zdoom and set the gamma to not a million in the menu.

Thanks, I have used that before. I just thought I'd try the original floppy disk doom for a laugh and then realised that that is exactly the way Doom is best anyway.

If I do use zdoom again, as you suggest, I'll knock back the silly default gamma level and also disable all the touch-ups, such as the higher resolution, free-look, lighting effects, jumping, or whatever other nonsense. ...I think I even prefer NOT having separate strafe keys - fumbling slightly with 'alt' is more challenging and fun.

Doom (as in id's original levels) is best pure. It's also best played by NOT carrying over your ammo & life to the next level. Every level is designed to be played by starting with only a pistol and no armour.

True, but pros like Doom II and Execution Deathmatch (exec.wad) or for the idiot in all of us, dwango5.wad

[mufunyo]

I recently played Command & Conquer 95 (Gold) and Red Alert in VMware Workstation (running XP as guest OS). For DOS games, you could try running XP with VDMSound in a VM. But yeah, DOSbox works too

[penrhos]

VMWare is handy for running old o/s - even Windows NT4 SP6A will run under VMWare.