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Clueless Newbee ; Please Advise And Direct (Emulation)

posted by mceric, Germany, 21.06.2021, 20:35

Hi!

I assume that you already use Windows, Linux or MacOS. So you will first have to find a video screen recording app for that, with sound recording. If possible, freeware and open source.

Next, you want to run DOS inside a window. You can use emulators for entire PC to do that: VMware (closed source), Bochs, QEMU, VirtualBox, PCEM and so on.

VirtualBox is popular, but has some compatibility problems with DOS games, because it is meant to run more modern software.

Alternatively, you can use emulators which target specifically DOS users, such as DOSBOX or DOSEMU2. Those usually come with a minimal DOS pre-installed and you can use a directory in your modern operating system as what will look like your C: drive inside the DOS window, which makes installation of games easier.

In both cases, the emulators can create a virtual Sound Blaster 16, which is important because almost all old games are not able to use modern soundcards.

You could also do recordings by playing the games on a real computer. In that case, you should use a computer which uses a real, old ISA sound card. Which you can get second hand. The problem is that you also need an old mainboard with old CPU and old RAM and so on, so the entire thing will be old!

You could use a normal camera and microphone to record that, or connect the line out of the old PC to the line in of a new one. You can also get hardware to capture the VGA output of the old PC and record it directly.

I think the easiest solution for you would be to use DOSBOX (if Windows) or DOSEMU2 (if Linux) and some suitable screen recording software, without getting any special hardware.

Cheers, Eric

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