Crap, I was about to post that I thought Myst came out in '95 but I think Myst for Windows 95 came out in '96? Windows 95 was released late '95 so it had to be '96. I hated Myst anyways, puzzles had absolutely nothing to do with the "game". Just a bunch of pretty pictures to click through.

Was just searching the net and some sources say 1993 was the initial release of Myst?

Myst for Windows 3.1 (1993/94?)
Myst for Windows 95 (1996)
Myst Masterpiece (1999)

I only have Myst Masterpiece which hopefully I will get around to playing when I'm wearing diapers and drooling on myself. 😀

Well to get this back on topic.

Is press for DosBox a good thing? You could say that any publicity is good publicity......

I suppose it depends what sort of people it brings in. Hopefully in a dedicated gaming magazine it'll be the sort of person who has been PC gaming for a while, but there's always going to be a measure of chaff with the wheat.

Get realMYST. It's fecking awesome. 😀

RealMyst was never released in the UK, I don't think. I keep meaning to buy it when I'm in the US, but keep forgetting...

The first Myst was released in 1993 for Macintosh. Also the first game to require a CD-ROM IIRC as there was no floppy release. Then in late 1994 it was released for Windows 3.x aswell. And then released for several platforms in 1995.

Computer Gaming World
January 2005
Issue #247
Page 69
Bottom half of page

DOSBox
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net

Bummed Windows XP has no backwards compatibility with DOS games? DOSBox is the answer. From King's Quest IV to Crusader, this program accurately emulates everything from music to game speed.

In Canard PC issue 52 (january 2005), there is an article about DOSBox.

I'll post a translation later.

[Tip]
"Play old DOS games"
Windows 2000/XP

The current trend for abandonware underlines the fact that certain games will only work in DOS, and anyone struck with a nostalgic yearning to play these golden oldies again will frequently be thwarted when they refuse to run in a DOS window. There is a solution, however, in the form of an emulator called DosBox (http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/). All you have to do is drag and drop the game's executable onto the DosBox executable. There is a French manual available at http://dosbox.sf.net/tools/Readme_french.zip, and the site also has a compatibility list and a summary of the hardware emulated (Gravis Ultrasound, Soundblaster 16, VGA/SVGA). DosBox is also available for Linux and Mac OS X.

Thanks Tagraff 😀

"you simply run the game within the DosBox window instead."
should be "
you simply drag the game's executable, and drop it on DOSBox's executable (binary?)."
Or something like that.

The rest is perfect 😀

Hah, talk about total misunderstanding of the word 😉 Thanks, I'll change it.

Was searching the net a couple of weeks and heard that O'reilly had a book that mentioned DosBox. Well I was in Books-A-Million the other day and noticed it. Opened it up and there was a little paragraph mentioning DosBox.

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/gaminghks/toc. … LL-4GV796923290

Chapter 1. Playing Classic Games […]
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Chapter 1. Playing Classic Games

1. Legal Emulation

2. Play Commodore 64 Games Without the C-64

3. Play Atari ROMs Without the Atari

4. Use Atari Paddles with Your PC

5. Run Homebrew Games on the Atari 2600

6. Create Your Own Atari 2600 Homebrew Games

7. Play Classic PC Graphic Adventures

8. Play Old Games Through DOSBox

Battlecruiser 3000? *shudder*

Don't speak that too loudly, or you'll summon the Flame Demon Derek Smart himself. I for one would rather not have him, or any of his degree mill degrees polluting this fine site. :p

Was a Books-A-Million again today (yeah I go there alot...Yeah I read...wanna make something of it...Huh? Yeah, That's right......uhhh..whatever) Anyways, I looked at the back of Maximum PC (June issue?) and noticed that they have included DosBox and Dfend on this month's CD, as far as I know this is the first time they have included it.

Expect tons more noobs to come by, here's an example:
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board … essage.id=25894

Found another mention of DosBox:

http://www.holbornbooks.co.uk/details.aspx?sn=1252378

SUSE Linux 10 Unleashed
by Mike Mccallister

Table of Contents. […]
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Table of Contents.

11. Going Cross-Platform.

Viewing Files from the Windows Side of Your Computer

Emulating Other Operating Systems in Linux: An Overview

A Few Misconceptions About Cross-Platform Tools

Using Wine to Run Windows Applications

Installing and Configuring Wine

Installing Windows Applications Under Wine

Running Wine

Crossover Office

Running Windows Applications with Win4Lin

Installing Win4Lin

Running Win4Lin

Running Windows Applications with Vmware

Installing Vmware

Running Vmware

Emulating a Mac with Basilisk II

Using dosemu and DOSBox

Xen: The Future of Virtualization?

Using Google Books to search turns up several books currently mentioning DosBox http://books.google.com/books?q=dosbox

Of these, only the first two actually mention DOSBox. The other three are false positives. I am somewhat surprised that it find Gaming Hacks but misses Retro Gaming Hacks (also O'Reilly). Chapter 7 and particularly "Hack 69" of that book are practically all about DOSBox. It is also mentioned many times throughout the book.
I am surprised that nobody mentioned Retro Gamer magazine (now defunct 🙁 ). Each of 18 issues mentioned DOSBox, and it was on most of magazine cover CDs.
Issue 6 of PC Action (first of two Emulate! issues) has two pages on DOSBox.

I knew that most of the books listed were only mentioning the Windows command prompt, but as Google keeps adding books, each subsequent click on that link should show more and more books.

PC Gamer
Feb 2006
Issue 146
Page 082
(Full page with pictures)

+ Mentions about front-ends, where to get them, and how to use them.
- Talks about mounting rather lightly and no mention about mounting CD drives.
No mention of any platform other than Windows XP.


As well mentions in troubleshooting tips about getting help from forums at www.vogons.org. (Stated merely as warning as to a possible explanation for a sudden uptick of questions over the next few weeks)

BTW, Retro Gamer is back from the grave, now with different publisher. I haven't seen any of the new issues yet so I cannot tell if it still mentions DOSBox as much as it did before. It looks like they've dropped cover disk 🙁

Nothing this month, and a quick scan through last month seems to indicate not a great deal there, either. What goes around comes around, though; I'm sure it will be mentioned again at some point, and in the meantime the magazine is really well-done, and I recommend it.

They had a big piece on Tomb Raider this month, actually - maybe someone should have pointed them in the direction of the Glidos forum here...