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I want to run many old windows [95 - XP] applications and games. If there is a way to have minimal os emulator (at least with all dependencies of that app/game)
by smusamashah 5y ago
I want to run many old windows [95 - XP] applications and games. If there is a way to have minimal os emulator (at least with all dependencies of that app/game) it would be great to have it as a container for that app.
I tried setting up qemu once by downloading many images. Almost none worked with apps I wanted to run. Also I had a very hard time finding a sane qemu documentation in one place. It's wiki is very messy to go through.
So is there anything to run win 98 to win xp apps in emulator/sandbox/container easily?
- jdmoreira 5y agoBest I've found so far is dosbox-x at https://dosbox-x.com/ https://dosbox-x.com/
- smusamashah 5y agoIs there an easy to follow documentation for dosbox-x? And can it work with pre-built images? I have tried to use it a few times but got overwhelmed by all the options. From the screenshot it looks exactly what I want (only for windows 98 though).
- G4E 5y agoI haven't tested it yet, but I recently came across boxedwine[0] which is basically wine + an emulation of the linux syscalls + graphical api forwarded to the host. All that wrapped in SDL. [0] http://www.boxedwine.org/ http://www.boxedwine.org/
- smusamashah 5y agoFrom apps and games page it looks like it will run all apps I want. Thanks.