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Copying Win95 installation files over to your disk image so you can run that installer after you've installed MS-DOS on it.

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This usually involves juggling of virtually inserted 3.5' floppy disk images with DOSBox to format and install on the raw disk image you created.

Install real MS-DOS 6.22 on the image.

you can't just mount a subdirectory on your host machine. This has to be mounted as a disk image, i.e. General steps involved to get Win95 running are:

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Windows 3.1 and later are all picky about what DOS they run on top of and will crash/halt/exit if you're using FreeDOS or DOSBox's DOS emulation. This won't work because most importantly the DOS emulation that DOSBox provides will NOT run Win95 - you'll need to actually install a real MS-DOS version to install and later run Windows. I imagine you simply have a disk image with Win95 on it and you're trying to run it. There are other web pages you can search on the web which will walk you through installation of Windows 95 on DOSBox (e.g.

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There is another project called DOSBox-X which attempts to address some of the quirks that prevent Windows 95 from running on it and as such they have guides on how to do it. I went through the motions several times before I got it to work, but the main issue is that DOSBox doesn't really work out-of-the-box with Win95. Perhaps you could try to revive your childhood.Windows 95 sorta-kinda works on DOSBox. I'll keep you updated with more games as I try them. Hopefully, you have saved all these great oldies on a CD and kept them for a rainy day - or UFO: Enemy Unknown is unique in having both strategic and tactical gameplay, as well as being dark, realistic and Technologies, manufacture hi-tech gadgets, run a solid budget, and finally fight evil aliens in turn-based You must build bases, recruit soldiers, conduct research of alien Responsible for the defense of the planet. As the commander of the Extraterrestrial Combat Unit, or XCOM, you are One of the special traits is seeing your friends blow up in 80Īliens have started invading Earth.

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The default is 3,000Ĭycles I would recommend 12,000-15,000 for smooth gameplay. Shooters, it is advisable to increase the number of CPU cycles used by DOSBox (Ctrl + F12).

Note: For best effect when playing CPU-intensive games, like First Person

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