The major benefit I see in DOSBox Pure over DOSBox Classic is a sort of built-in containerization for games. DOSBox Pure creates a separate environment for each game automatically when it's "opened" ...

There are a lot of amazing games these days, but they sometimes take years to develop, and they might still launch in a sorry state at release -- looking at you, Cyberpunk 2077. If you want to return ...

Maybe you're not getting the true retro PC experience if you're not fiddling with settings at an emulated DOS text prompt, but there's something to be said for how easy console emulation has become ...

As advanced as today’s gaming titles are, they just don’t have the appeal that simple games of the DOS era had. After all, who can forget the good old days of Bio Menace, Dangerous Dave and SkyRoads.

Indie developer Bernhard Schelling has announced DOSBox Pure, a forthcoming version of the open-source DOS emulator designed to be compatible with emulator frontend RetroArch, which has struggled with ...

Has anyone got this combination working together? I have a few titles with MIDI music that I'd like to output via my Roland UM-One USB adapter to my SoundCanvas SC-88. I can get MIDI output working ...

DOSBox is arguably the best PC-with-DOS emulator available today. It's great for playing older 1980s and early 1990s PC games. But some later 1990s titles exist in a sort of grey area—too complex for ...

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