Hello friends, and welcome again to our channel,
The Teacher. With Windows 10, as we are moving into the new era of advance Operating Systems
but you might still be running some old Dos based applications or games that you still
don't want to give up. So, in this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to run old
dos based applications in 64 Bit Edition of Windows 10.
If you are not sure that either you are using a 32 Bit or 64 Bit Edition of Windows 10,
then right-click on the Start button and then click System.
Under System section you can
note down that which edition of Windows 10 is installed on your computer. If it is a
32-Bit Edition, then you can run most of the dos applications without any problem but if
it is a 64-bit edition then follow these steps to run your favorite dos based applications
in Windows 10. First, you need to download and install a
third-party application called "Dosbox". Dosbox is one of the most popular application to
help you run dos based applications on a 64-bit edition of Windows. Download and install Dosbox
from the link given in the description below. After finish installing the Dosbox, run the
program and when you run it for the first time, you will be at a command prompt window
and you might think that what to do next? What you need to do here at Dosbox command
prompt is, you have to access files and folders from your local drive into dosbox, you need
to mount those folders first. Do note that, you cannot mount an entire local drive into
dosbox.
You can only mount folder or subfolders within Dosbox. Now, let's assume that I have
two folders on my local drive c naming TURBOC and POP. I want to access both these folders
into dosbox. So the command will goes like this.
Mount C C:\TURBOC This command is telling dos box to create
a new drive naming C drive and mount TURBOC folder from my local drive C into dosbox.
Dosbox will then create a new C drive and that you can access by typing C: and hit the
enter key. Type DIR to see all the contents of your TURBOC folder which is now mounted
into dosbox.
One interesting thing to note down here is,
the TURBOC folder on my local drive contain the older version of C++ language and I have
placed all the contents of this folder by creating another subfolder naming TC. This
is because, if you carefully see the contents of the mounted c drive, then you can notice
that it is showing only the TC subfolder not the actual TURBOC root folder. I did this
because, dosbox see folders in a different way. On my local drive, if I want to access
the BIN sub-folder under TC folder, then the full path will be C:\TURBOC\TC\BIN but in
dosbox, it will be TC\BIN. Different applications and games store their
configuration settings differently. For instance, let's see the configuration setting of C++
application and here you can see the directories path which are store in the configuration
file and path are referring to c:\TC\BIN and TC\Library folder. So to avoid this conflict
and to run C++ properly, I placed it inside the TURBOC folder, so after mounting it into
Dosbox the actual path will automatically become TC\BIN not TURBOC\TC\BIN.
You cannot mount another folder into the same mounted drive.
For instance, if now I want
to mount the POP folder located on local drive C then either I have to mount it into another
drive in dosbox or unmount the current mounted drive c and then mount the POP folder. In
both cases, choice is yours. If the application configuration files do
not get conflicted if you mount them as D drive then you can go ahead and can mount
that folder as D drive and the command will go like this:
Mount d c:\POP Now to access the POP folder, type D: and
hit the Enter key and then run your favorite application or game.
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