A few days ago. I posted a simple tip that outlined how to manually install a DOSBox driver on Windows 10. By manually installing a DOSBox driver on Windows 10, you can play DOS games on your computer.
These DOS games aren’t real DOS Games; they’re modified, pre-made, converted games. One of the most popular DOS Games is Half-Life, the successor to the first-person shooter Half-Life. I didn’t run into any trouble installing the DOSBox driver to allow me to play Half-Life. Nor was I able to run any other DOS games.
However, while installing the DOSBox driver and seeing a rather large list of titles and system requirements. I kept thinking, “How can I get Half-Life and a few other DOS games to run smoothly on Windows 10?”
The answer is surprisingly easy.
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Half-Life, and all DOS games for that matter, run on the HLE (Halftrack eXecutive)-Audio Engine. Which was written by BioWare and was used in the original Doom. Since HLE, unlike regular game engines, is fully capable of running off of a DOS cartridge. I wasn’t too concerned about finding a program in Windows that used this engine.
There are programs available for Windows that will open up a DOSBox emulator window. And let you select from a menu of games and run them. As far as I know, this was how Half-Life was playing when I played it. But the feature may not be available on Windows 10.
DOSBox uses the game DOSBox.exe, a DOS game emulation utility. Using this program, you can run any DOS game.
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DOSBox.exe has a very small amount of resources on your computer. If you’re running Windows 10, I’d recommend running DOSBox.exe in a case-sensitive file system (think Z:\ instead of C:\). In other words, the space DOSBox.exe is using is only occupied by the code and doesn’t take up a lot of room.
By running DOSBox.exe in a case-sensitive file system. It will open a window with different program files each marked with the file name instead of the name of the program. With the proper path and directory structure. You can use the mouse to select a file and view its name instead of what it’s called.
These names are simple, and descriptive, and are a great help when you’re looking for a DOS game. I’m listing them below in case you need to know where to look.
DSP.EXE — The DOS version of the PhysX engine. Which is a highly optimized, DirectX 9 engine that greatly simplifies asset creation for game developers. You can choose either the 32-bit or 64-bit version of DOSBox.exe.
CUS.EXE — The DOS version of the Virtual Game Station, an emulator-based database, multiplayer network game. And portal that allows players to play network games.
NERDUP.EXE — The DOS version of the Network-Driven Program Storage and Dynamical Dependent App Representation. An emulator that supports the Windows driver model for a two-way data-discovery protocol in which each program can declare the type of information. It wants to share between processes on the same system.
LADE.EXE — The DOS version of the Level Editor for Windows, an executable programming application that allows you to create and run single- and two-player games. Including the original Doom and Half-Life. LADE.EXE runs on DOSBox.exe under Windows.
SCEN.EXE — The DOS version of the Sound Editor for Windows. Which was the second of the first-ever sound editors for Windows.
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PAGE.EXE — The DOS version of the Paint application, a rudimentary graphics editor, that displays black and white graphics. And is necessary to create some of the iconic game art from the early DOS era.
SORT.EXE — The DOS version of the Scanline library. Which allowed players to create, render, and use the very first wave beat block technology that games such as Quake started using for real-time 3D. SORT.EXE runs on DOSBox.exe under Windows.
Thanks to this list of DOS games that are built into DOSBox.exe. I’ve been able to find games to run on Windows 10 that require very few resources on my Windows 10 machine. The list below shows what I’ve used to run a list of 20 games and Half-Life (on Windows 7), along with some additional details.
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