MS DOS game

Dec 10, 2016
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Hello i want to get a MS-DOS pc but i dont know where to look i want to play games like Elder scrolls arena, elder scrolls daggerfall, sim city 2000, fallout 1 and 2 and doom 2 etc. i live in Canada and i dont where to look. plz help
 

You do not have to. Just use dosbox as mentioned above.
If you want to use old hardware that bad, you can get something at a second hand store/yard sale/recycling center.

I got a P133 somewhere :), but I think I would use my old Celeron first for this(some dos games are more demanding).

Games from GoG come with Dosbox ready to go(old ones on steam do as well).
 
If you want to go the old PC route, but look for a full old second hand system.

If you want to try and use your current pc, Dosbox is an emulator that runs on most computers and allows them to play old dos games that would not work on newer operating systems and hardware.

Check it out.
https://www.dosbox.com/

Again many of the games you buy that are old Dos games on GoG and Steam(possibly others) will already have this bundled and configured.
 


That is great.
But you will still need a DOS boot disk and make sure you know how to set IRQ , DMA and memory address space for the sound and video card for games to work.
Some games also require you to use a Hi MEM boot disk to clear part of the first 640k of memory for them to work.
It can easily be done if you are familiar with old bios setup.
Or can be a pain and very frustrating if not.
Which is why we suggest DOSBox.