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Old 08-03-2012, 06:06 PM   #1179 (permalink)
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OK this is a question for anyone who has experience with DOS emulators:

I just downloaded DOSBox and am trying to run games on it but can't for the life of me figure out how to get it work. I've tried running it un-extracted on DOSBox, which gave me an 'illegal command' message, and I tried extracting it and then running the application, where I get an error message telling me the application is not compatible with my version of Windows.

Can anyone walk me through the steps?

I'm getting the games from this site by the way:
Best Old Games | Old Games : Free download [eng]
What version of Windows are you running? I've been having similar problems with DOS Box... Windows 7 64 bit, with Service Pack 1 here.
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