If you're a retro kind of guy or gal, you've likely been frustrated by your inability to play old DOS-based games. DOS is long gone from Windows--the command prompt inside Windows isn't truly DOS anymore. Many old games simply won't run from the Windows command prompt. They need true-blue DOS.
You can't buy DOS any more, but you can get the free DOSBox, which does a great job of emulating it. Install and run the program, then run any DOS game--or DOS application, for that matter--inside it. When you run DOSBox, it automatically sets any sound-system related variables, so that your sound system will work properly with your old games.
--Preston Gralla
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