Maybe you're not getting the true retro PC experience if you're not fiddling with settings at an emulated DOS text prompt, but there's something to be said for how easy console emulation has become ...

DOSBox makes it possible to play games and run software designed for MS-DOS on a wide range of platforms. Though this emulator makes interacting with DOS relatively straightforward, the open-source ...

DOSBox makes it easy to play classic PC games on modern platforms by emulating the MS-DOS environment for which they were designed. It’s available in a variety of versions for almost any platform. But ...

DOSBox Pure is a new fork of 'old PC' emulator DOSBox - built to deliver console-like ease of use. Available now, the emulator is also of note as it fits in nicely with the increasingly popular ...

The major benefit I see in DOSBox Pure over DOSBox Classic is a sort of built-in containerization for games. DOSBox Pure creates a separate environment for each game automatically when it's "opened" ...

I learned how to create customized boot menus in DOS batch files just to avoid needing a boot floppy for that game.