Every single DOS game I've tried with DOSBox has worked flawlessly and I've tried many from simple CGA stuff to complex resource hogs like Magic Carpet 1&2 and Wing Commander III. If it's convenience you want then DOSBox with a decent front end like D.O.G is a winning combination.

dos 6.22 would be maybe the best for old dos games but the way there is hard.

This is definitely the worst choice for old games, or games which heavily
depend on cpu speed.

dh4rm4 wrote:

Every single DOS game I've tried with DOSBox has worked flawlessly and I've tried many from simple CGA stuff to complex resource hogs like Magic Carpet 1&2 and Wing Commander III. If it's convenience you want then DOSBox with a decent front end like D.O.G is a winning combination.

Thanks for the hint, did not know about dog, checking it yet. 😀

wd wrote:

dos 6.22 would be maybe the best for old dos games but the way there is hard.

This is definitely the worst choice for old games, or games which heavily
depend on cpu speed.

Ok, indeed. Damn right, now I don`t need to test this way...

Well, maybe I should just get a legacy box for the legacy apps. Them are very cheep and if you are at the right place to the right time you can get them before someone put them into trash.

But I did try to prevent getting another box.

"Dos 7.x from Win98 is very bad. After long searching I found a dos driver for soundblaster (the virtual sound card). But this one doesn`t install because dos is newer then 6.22"

you need to use the setver command

Syntax

Sets the MS-DOS version number that Windows reports to a program.
Display current version table: SETVER [drive:path]
Add entry: SETVER [drive:path] filename n.nn
Delete entry: SETVER [drive:path] filename /DELETE [/QUIET]

[drive:path] Specifies location of the SETVER.EXE file.
filename Specifies the filename of the program.
n.nn Specifies the MS-DOS version to be reported to the program.
/DELETE or /D Deletes the version-table entry for the specified program.
/QUIET or /Q Hides the message typically displayed during deletion of version-table entry.

Thanks Davros for the hint. Could be good if this works, because I could exchange data with the vm in vmware with drag and drop and go in dos mode to play old games.

Two questions...

I type setver, a lot of informations are showed but to fast so I can`t see the first ones. How I can get a pause? For dir there was dir /p. Something similar?

What versions I have to change to get this driver installed?

setver |more

another wrote:

Dos 7.x from Win98 is very bad. After long searching I found a dos driver for soundblaster (the virtual sound card). But this one doesn`t install because dos is newer then 6.22.

One solitary experience is very poor justification for declaring anything to be "very bad". The old Sound Blaster DOS drivers are probably the only thing you will ever encounter that will work with DOS 6.22 but not DOS 7.x.

the only thing you will ever encounter that will work with DOS 6.22 but not DOS 7.x.

Do you happen to know if it's just about the version check (so setver would
most likely work) for that sound driver stuff?

I think we had this discussion somewhere before; as I recall, it also checks whether the filesystem on the boot drive is FAT32, and the only foolproof way is to use a DOS 6.22 boot floppy.

Unfortunately, I can't find the thread at the moment.

it also checks whether the filesystem on the boot drive is FAT32

Cute 😀
Maybe just hack out those checks, doubt it'd break functionality.

Dang, now I want to find that old thread. It was discussed here but there's no link.

set it to dos 6.22
setver does indeed work ive done it
ps: i dont think the sb drivers check for fat32 as they are meant to be for dos which is fat16 (fat32 came out with win95 osr2) and they dont check to see if the drive is fat16 as i have installed on a fat32 hdd