This applies DOSBox running on the following OSes:
All I want to do is play sim city 2000 and 3000 on my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.5.8 Everywhere I go online I download the emulated game and it comes are garbled, probably because its a windows download and not a mac download. DOSbox is running fine on my mac but all the sim city games are for windows.
- Windows Millennium Edition (ME) is a closed source operating system that Microsoft released 14th September 2000 which preceded Windows 98 SE, and was succeeded by Windows XP. It was mainly aimed at home usage but a business (and more stable) variant was available called Windows 2000. Support for the operating system ended 11th July 2006.
- Now, you can start DOSBox. Before you can install the game, you will need to execute a couple of commands. You interact with DOS PCs, and therefore DOSBox too, by typing commands and then pressing enter, rather than by clicking icons. The picture below shows a DOSBox session with the C drive mounted as a virtual hard drive.
Dosbox For Windows Xp
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To install Windows 1.0 Alpha you will need:
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- DOSBox installed and running on your machine
A copy of all four Windows 1.0 Alpha installation disks (Can be retrieved from WinWorld or from here if you have access to the BetaArchive FTP)
A disk image mounter or viewer (Usually already a feature of the OS, if it isn't you can search online for some disk image mounting tools that work on your OS. Must support .img files)
An archive manager (If you download the disks from WinWorld, you need an archive manager that supports 7z files, such as 7-Zip or WinRAR)
Extracting the disk image files and setting up the files for use:
This may vary depending on where you originally downloaded the disks from, however, the method should work on most sources. This example uses the files from WinWorld.
- Extract the .img files from the archive using your preferred archive manager, the files should be labelled: disk01.img, disk02.img,
disk03.img and disk04.img, this may differ depending where you downloaded from, but it should be similar to these ones listed here. You can also extract the other files that came with it, however, that is optional. Make sure to read any readme file that comes with it.
- Create a folder anywhere on your computer named 'Drive A' (It doesn't have to be that exact name, but make sure you know that it is the drive letter A).
- Create a folder anywhere on your computer named 'Drive A' (It doesn't have to be that exact name, but make sure you know that it is the drive letter A).
- Now you have to extract the contents from all of the img files and copy it into the same 'Drive A' folder using your disk image mounter. On Windows, MacOS and most distributions of Linux you just have to double click the img file and it will mount it as a drive, you can then copy the files from the mounted drive.
- Create a folder called 'Drive C' (Just like the Drive A folder, it doesn't have to be that exact name) and then copy the WININST.BAT file from the 'Drive A' folder to the new 'Drive C' folder.
Installing Windows 1.0 Alpha on DOSBox:
- Start up DOSBox and type in the following command to mount the 'Drive A' folder: remember to include all of the double quotation marks, it is required if any of the directories leading to the 'Drive A' folder have spaces in them.
- Create a folder called 'Drive C' (Just like the Drive A folder, it doesn't have to be that exact name) and then copy the WININST.BAT file from the 'Drive A' folder to the new 'Drive C' folder.
Installing Windows 1.0 Alpha on DOSBox:
- Start up DOSBox and type in the following command to mount the 'Drive A' folder: remember to include all of the double quotation marks, it is required if any of the directories leading to the 'Drive A' folder have spaces in them.
- Now mount the 'Drive C' folder using the following command:
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same rules apply to this command.
- To begin the installation, use the following commands: keep pressing any key to continue through the installation. When it asks you to insert the four disks, just continue normally since all the files are already there.
- When you come to the screen asking you to select between three different display adapters, make sure you select the first option, the other two do not work and will prevent Windows from starting.
- When the installation is complete, it should successfully start Windows.
- If you want to start Windows again in the future, type in the commands:
- To begin the installation, use the following commands: keep pressing any key to continue through the installation. When it asks you to insert the four disks, just continue normally since all the files are already there.
- When you come to the screen asking you to select between three different display adapters, make sure you select the first option, the other two do not work and will prevent Windows from starting.
- When the installation is complete, it should successfully start Windows.
- If you want to start Windows again in the future, type in the commands:
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- DOSBox installed and running on your machine
A copy of all four Windows 1.0 Alpha installation disks (Can be retrieved from WinWorld or from here if you have access to the BetaArchive FTP)
A disk image mounter or viewer (Usually already a feature of the OS, if it isn't you can search online for some disk image mounting tools that work on your OS. Must support .img files)
An archive manager (If you download the disks from WinWorld, you need an archive manager that supports 7z files, such as 7-Zip or WinRAR)
Extracting the disk image files and setting up the files for use:
This may vary depending on where you originally downloaded the disks from, however, the method should work on most sources. This example uses the files from WinWorld.
- Extract the .img files from the archive using your preferred archive manager, the files should be labelled: disk01.img, disk02.img, disk03.img and disk04.img, this may differ depending where you downloaded from, but it should be similar to these ones listed here. You can also extract the other files that came with it, however, that is optional. Make sure to read any readme file that comes with it.
- Create a folder anywhere on your computer named 'Drive A' (It doesn't have to be that exact name, but make sure you know that it is the drive letter A).
- Now you have to extract the contents from all of the img files and copy it into the same 'Drive A' folder using your disk image mounter. On Windows, MacOS and most distributions of Linux you just have to double click the img file and it will mount it as a drive, you can then copy the files from the mounted drive.
- Create a folder called 'Drive C' (Just like the Drive A folder, it doesn't have to be that exact name) and then copy the WININST.BAT file from the 'Drive A' folder to the new 'Drive C' folder.
Installing Windows 1.0 Alpha on DOSBox:
- Start up DOSBox and type in the following command to mount the 'Drive A' folder: remember to include all of the double quotation marks, it is required if any of the directories leading to the 'Drive A' folder have spaces in them.
- Now mount the 'Drive C' folder using the following command:
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same rules apply to this command.- To begin the installation, use the following commands: keep pressing any key to continue through the installation. When it asks you to insert the four disks, just continue normally since all the files are already there.
- When you come to the screen asking you to select between three different display adapters, make sure you select the first option, the other two do not work and will prevent Windows from starting.
- When the installation is complete, it should successfully start Windows.
- If you want to start Windows again in the future, type in the commands:
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This is my first tutorial, please reply to me if I have made any mistakes.
