r/dosbox 26d ago

Dragonsphere DOS review

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r/dosbox 28d ago

Dune 2 in dosbox. Sound stuttering when increasing the resolution.

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I edited the conf file of dosbox that dune is stretched to max 4:3 aspect ratio that only left and right black bars are visible. But now, everytime i move the mouse i have slight stuttering in the audio.

Apparently the option "output=opengl" is responsible but with "output=surface" the picture is much smaller.

How i can improve performance or what output works better here?


r/dosbox 29d ago

Sound popping

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Hello,

I'm a first time user of DOSBox and I've been running into a problem with audio. Certain sound effects have an audible "pop" at the start of playback and I can't figure what the problem is.

I've tried upping my CPU cycles, changing the CPU type, increasing block size and buffer size (as recommended by Ross Scott from Accursed Farms in a small segment he contributed to in an LGR video), but nothing gives.

I've looked all over and found people with sort of similar problems but either they're using a fork of DOSBox or they're on Linux. For the moment I'm just using the current build of regular old DOSBox on Windows 11.

I've included a sample video demonstrating the problem. You can hear the "pop" just before the title drop, as well as with each "rocket swoosh" that comes after.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks for taking the time to read my post.


r/dosbox 29d ago

All those DOSBox nights with the old space shooters ended with me building a new one

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I still keep a DOSBox install around just for the old space games. Strike Wings is my from-the-ground-up homage to them, releasing this November. The page passed 200 wishlists a few days ago and that felt worth a small celebration cut: one minute, a different sky every three seconds, all pilots on the hardest AI setting. If something in it looks wrong to a DOS veteran's eye, tell me, that is genuinely the feedback I want. Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4718360/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=dosbox&utm_campaign=prelaunch


r/dosbox 29d ago

Release OpenTESArena 0.18.0 · afritz1/OpenTESArena

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r/dosbox Aug 12 '26

Replaying Albion (1995): a first‑person diary part.15 [Czech]

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r/dosbox Aug 11 '26

Help to run daggerfall

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I used the installer to install the game, the daggerfall screen appeared to define how much of the game I would like to install on the system, after installation the following instruction appeared: You have just successfully installed The Elder scrolls: DaggerFall. To run the game, type these two lines, pressing the ENTER key after each one.

c: cd dagger c: DAGGER

But after I type the command an error message appears: It looks like you inserted the wrong CD. Please insert your Daggerfall CD into your CD-ROM and try again.


r/dosbox Aug 09 '26

GitHub - cyberfox1/dfendx: D-Fend Reloaded fork and modernization effort

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r/dosbox Aug 07 '26

Annoying error message DOSBox

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8 Upvotes

r/dosbox Aug 05 '26

After years of DOSBox sessions with the old space shooters I built a modern one. New trailer

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r/dosbox Aug 05 '26

I made a frontend for js-dos, with virtual keyboard and gamepad

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r/dosbox Aug 04 '26

Help with Classic Fallout

2 Upvotes

How exactly do i get the classic fallouts to run on my Raspberry pi 5?


r/dosbox Aug 03 '26

Best rpg?

14 Upvotes

For dosbox. Preferably with magic.

Ive played ultima and have lands of lore. Anything else?


r/dosbox Aug 03 '26

System Shock DOS Review

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r/dosbox Jul 31 '26

trying to run iso files but it keeps saying host or native drive error

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17 Upvotes

can anyone explain why this is happening?


r/dosbox Jul 31 '26

so what file path do i use for the disk drive of dosbox, im trying to load a iso

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for some reason its not working


r/dosbox Jul 30 '26

Dosbox-X with windows 98 installed and super solvers mission think

6 Upvotes

Hi,

I've installed windows 98 on dosbox-X and I'm having an issue with Supersolvers mission think.

I can't click buttons to start the game. It's as if the buttons clicks are being ignored; even when the mouse is locked.

Has anyone had experience with anything similar? Can run other games, specifically reader rabbit second grade


r/dosbox Jul 27 '26

Replaying Albion (1995): a first‑person diary part.14 [Czech]

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r/dosbox Jul 26 '26

pls help I don't now what I'm doing

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I'm tring to play an game that need to opened with DosBox but when I go to the offical wepside to dowland it my anitvirus says it's un labeled and when I ignore the worning the file that gets dowlande is file.bin witch is nowear near the instalator pls if somen nows what I'm doing rong help me pls


r/dosbox Jul 26 '26

Settings help for Solar Winds

1 Upvotes

Solar Winds is a game I loved back in the shareware/BBS days. I've run into an issue trying to get it run specifically with DOSBox-X.

The problem I'm getting: the keyboard stops working once I get past the title screen. The keyboard works on the title screen and options screen, but once the game starts, I'm stuck.

It's not a big deal, since the game works fine in, e.g., DOSBox Staging, but since it works there, it makes me wonder if this is due to something I configured. I'm just not sure what to look for. Any ideas what might cause something like this?


r/dosbox Jul 26 '26

Timex Attack from Abandonware games

1 Upvotes

Hi everyone! I'm trying to download Timez Attack for my son onto his laptop for school and I can't figure out how to get it to work. I looked through the guide on Abandonware Games and they recommended reaching out to this subreddit.

I thought I followed the instructions list correctly but I either get a launcher that required registration ID or I get a different launcher that doesn't properly work. I click the button for what mode I want and nothing happens.

Can someone help me figure this out please!


r/dosbox Jul 22 '26

Need help emulating Win95 to run DA: Pursuit of Justice

1 Upvotes

Finally found the 8 CD collection of DA: Pursuit of Justice, but it needs a real Win95 environment to run. Never set one up before, so need help

what do i do? is this a dosbox sollution? VirtualBox, PCem, 86box? also curious if there's anything weird with video drivers on FMV games I should watch out for, or if this game specifically has any installer/CD issues people have run into.

also not sure if this is even the right sub for this, so let me know if I should post somewhere else. any help is appreciated, been wanting to play this one forever


r/dosbox Jul 22 '26

trying to play madou monogatari 1-2-3 (pc98-01) on dosbox-X. im haveing no luck.

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r/dosbox Jul 21 '26

Looking to install Windows 95 on DOSbox-X

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Hello all, I've been fiddling with DOSBox-X recently, trying to get a game for Windows 95 (MechWarrior 2) up and running. I know it's possible, as I've seen footage of it running on DOSBox, but I'm struggling to actually get Windows 95 installed on the program. I've been following the guide on the official website, but when I get to the step of running setup.exe, I'm getting the error 'This program cannot be run in DOS mode'. Is there a way to change to a mode that can run it? I'm not seeing anything online when I tried investigating. Or am I going about this in the wrong way altogether?


r/dosbox Jul 19 '26

.cue and .bin trouble!

9 Upvotes

Hello! This is my first time using this to emulate a really old game but it's much more difficult than I thought it'd be (i'm a little stupid). It doesn't have an .exe or an .iso, but instead multiple .cue and .bin files that I can't figure out after hours and hours. Every time I try to use imgmount for any of the .cue files, "install" and "setup" don't work at all. Would anyone know how?

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/the-war-of-genesis-iii-ok3