In this scenario however, we’d probably recommend just buying a digital version of the game instead, which is at the very least guaranteed to install on Windows 10. If you’re really desperate, you could run an older version of Windows in a Virtual Machine and install the game through that. One possible solution is to run the installer as an administrator (see below). You can find a comprehensive list of these games here (opens in new tab)). If your CD-based game is made to run with an older version of Windows, things get a bit more complicated, because old Windows installers (particularly from the ‘XP’ era and back) often aren’t compatible with modern Windows versions (as a sidenote: the few CD-based games using the SecuROM DRM won’t work in Windows 10 (opens in new tab) either. So, your command line should look something like: Z:\>D:įinally, follow the installer instructions to install your game. On the next line, enter the command corresponding to the game installer on the CD (you may need to open the CD in File Explorer to check this, but it’s usually ‘install’, ‘setup’ or ‘dos4gw’). With your CD drive now mounted in DOSBox, change the active drive in DOSBox to the CD drive by entering the command ‘D:’. Assuming this is drive ‘d’ on your PC, the command you need to enter into DOSBox is: Mount d d:\ -t cdrom -ioctl
Next, you’ll need to mount your CD drive to DOSBox.
To install a DOS-based CD-ROM game, first create the folder in Windows where you’d like to install it (we’ll use ‘c:\DOSGames’ as an example), then enter the following command into DOSBox: mount c c:\DOSGames If you have a DOS game on CD-ROM, don’t add it to your kitschy CD wall mirror just yet, because you can install it using DOSBox.
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