If the games your playing do not support saving themselves then your only other option is to play the games using Virtual PC.

It may be possible to use DOSBox in Virtual PC and save the state with VPC......not sure if that would actually work or not or what the performance would be like.

You cannot do this at the moment, as far as I know. As you have well said, DOSBox doesn't support savestates and it will probably won't support them in a very long time.

I'll try to see if I can do some research on VPC and go about it that way.

I was fooling around with this at work yesterday and playing the game Albion. (God bless a failing economy to give you more time to f-off at the car dealership 😁)

So when I used the ingame save feature and then shut the game off and returned to it later, the list of games to load was empty. This might be a failing of that game specifically or is there something that I'm not doing correctly that would allow the game to see where it was saved before. Does anyone know where those games are saved on your machine when using the ingame save feature???

Thanks for the timely response.

The games are saved in the same location as the game. So wherever you mounted the game is where the save is stored.

If you do not have permission to write to the directory. (Running as Standard User and/or using Vista) Then the only place you have permission to write to is your own profile (C:\Users\XXX).

Dos Freak,

You seem to be the man on this forum from what I've read so far and I'm next to ignorant about DOS.

Two questions.

1. Has anyone made a list of the best DOS games to try to play? I got a couple of DVD's from a friend/customer that has like 2000 games on it. I'd like to get an idea of where to start.

2. If we (Me) run into problems installing specific games, is there a thread that addresses trouble items, or lists instructions for games that are popular but require more than just unzipping the files into a folder and finding an executable. There have been a few games that I've unzipped and that seem to have an installation procedure that needs to be done before you can play the game without it crashing.

2000 DOS games, on a DVD, no installation, just unzipping. Reeks of piracy to me. Hope someone comes along that car dealership and "pirates" a few of the cars.

The "best" games are relative. If you know what genre of games you like then It's a good idea to search google for reviews of the "Top XX "insert genre here" or the "Top xx best DOS games".

Also check out the review sites like metacritic or search old forums for the DOS games that people like.

We don't support abandonware here. With that said most "abandonware" games can just be unzipped, configured using it's setup program and then if executed under DOSBox most of them work fine. In some cases you may have to manually edit a configuration file.

If you find a game you spent alot of time on I recommend either buying the game or if unable to and the dev/publisher is still around buying a new game.