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DOSBox for old school DOS emulation
by Jason Clarke Apr 5th 2006
While everyone knows that DOS programs can be run
in any version of Windows in the command prompt, if you've ever tried to play a classic DOS game on your modern system
you may have been disappointed.
If you're really intent on getting that classic version of Out of this World (Another World for our European friends) from 1991 working on your Windows XP box (or Mac OS X, Linux or even BeOS machine), check out DOSBox.
DOSBox can emulate 286 & 386
processors in realmode and protected mode, handles extended memory managers like XMS and EMS, emulates a myriad of
graphics subsystems including Tandy/Hercules/CGA/EGA/VGA/VESA graphics, and of course the obligatory SoundBlaster
emulation.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
