Wow Sandboxie is really nice!

[Locut0s]

I've been running a lot of old dos and windows games recently and found 2 tools that are amazingly useful for this stuff.

DosBox for the old dos stuff basically it emulates an old x86/Pentium with soundcard,modem,the works! I have yet to find a dos program or game that I can't run (and I've run a lot) in DosBox complete with midi music and sb music.

And Sandboxie for the older Windows games. I don't trust these old games not to mess with critical files. I don't think I'm going to run my web browser permanently sandboxed, I'm not that paranoid, but I can see using it for other files a lot!!

 

[Sam25]

Yup, DosBox is a really handy emulator for running the older games. I remember having a hard time working with it at first but once I got the hang of it, it worked great. The other emulator I use quite a bit is ScummVM.

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: Sam25
Yup, DosBox is a really handy emulator for running the older games. I remember having a hard time working with it at first but once I got the hang of it, it worked great. The other emulator I use quite a bit is ScummVM.

I also can't give ScummVM enough praise! Amazing work they did on that emulator!! It may only run a small collection of games but what a collection! Reads like a who's who of best adventure games of all time. Not only that but it runs them rock solid. I'd say they are more solid on ScummVM than the original titles were on older hardware.