Nearly as I can tell, the majority of the listings from the DOSbox Wiki for Windows Frontends are dormant . Several others, even older, are still showing up in Google searches. I counted four currently active, including AmpShell. My requirements are pretty basic, I never played any arcade games, …

Thank you. In order to get the new XP install protected by an AV, I tried everything that claimed to run in XP from an offline install. Nothing I tried would work until I installed the various NET Framework versions up through 4.03, after which Panda Dome would install and run. I'm not planning for …

The Ultima series is one I ought to look at, although back then, something turned me off after the first or second of them! I loved Might & Magic, and enjoyed some of the Wizardry games, but those seemed very tough, and I had to be in a really special mood to play them! I never finished one of them, …

I played RPGs, and an occasional deep space strategy game, all strictly PC-oriented. Never owned any console systems. D.O.G. appeared to be oriented toward the earlier gaming console stuff, and didn't get much attention when I was trying to research some of the front ends that the DOSbox Wiki …

Beginning maybe 12 years ago, I began to experience an itch regarding the games I played while still new to PCs, when MS-DOS was the X86 OS of choice. I assembled several "period" desktop systems, and collected a few CDs from eBay that I either no longer had myself, or else only had in floppy disk …