I figured out how to run Wordstar 6 for DOS on Windows 7 (64-bit) using DOSBox. I posted step-by-step on by blog at: http://ohfreedom.wordpress.com/2012/11/06/run … t-using-dosbox/.

I'm able to run Paradox 4.0 for DOS on a Windows 7 Pro (64-bit) machine using DOSBox. It might be Paradox 4.01, but the splash screen is too quick for me to read. I haven't tried printing anything to paper from within Paradox, and that might not work because Paradox assume that all printers are …

Ah ha! Thanks. Futzing with the scaler configuration option solved my problem. Turns out that "scaler=2x forced" does just what I want.

I'm running Wordstar 6 for DOS. When I run it in the default window, the font size is a bit too small for comfort. But when I go to full screen the font is too large and blurry. What I'd like is to roughly double the size of the default window. Any thoughts? I'm using the default "machine=svga_s3" …

Understood. But in this case I'm dealing with an application that doesn't set the screen resolution. So I'm wondering if there's some way to tweak that via DOSBox.

In regards to the configuration file "MACHINE=" option, the DosBox Wiki ( http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Dosbox.conf ) says: "svga_s3 (vga on DOSBox 0.71 and 0.72) is SVGA (Super Video Graphics Array): A loose standard designed to allow graphics modes superior to that of VGA. This option emulates an S3 …