
You would then enter the game's folder at the dos prompt or dos windows in 95, 98 for 16nit not 8bit to run the game by entering the name of the game's executable file. The setup for a good number of old 8bit as well as 16bit dos games would see that done by simply unpacking the folders onto the local C drive.

For any old Legacy games something like that would be needed unless the files can be unpacked onto the local drive to run as stand alone folders where then you would be able to run them with DOSBox. Windows 3.1 and 95 are seen in that regard.Īs for cd based Duke 3D being a popular Legacy dos to W9x title saw an emulator that will even work on the 64bit Windows.

Even if you had a 98SE VM running you would likely run into problems with the cd based games while some of those games may actually be seen available to play in your web browser.
