Play DOS Games on Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 with DOSBox The ultimate solution to play DOS games on your PC with Windows 10, Windows 8.1, 8, 7, Vista or XP is DOSBox. DOSBox emulates DOS and the environment in which DOS ran in the past (like an old pc), including memory management and sound configuration, but with the power of your. In dosbox, emulator, legacy windows, tutorial, windows - on 10:42 PM - 160 comments Looking at how OS had marvelled over these three decades starting from the 90s somehow makes me reminiscent the good old days of Win 3.1, Win95 and Win98. If you never got the chance to use Windows 2000, you can now give it a go. Download Windows XP for free. Windows 7 comes with Windows XP Mode, a compatibility feature designed to run XP and its.
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Theoretically, you can't. However..
- Ron Miller here at Stars! AutoHost has permission from Jeff McBride (the author) to give away serial codes in exchange for a small donation to Stars! AutoHost. See this thread in the forum for details.
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Note: The game executable file itself is freely available. It is only the serial code that is an issue.
- NoteNote: Ron checks his Stars! AutoHost email every few days usually, so don't get upset if you don't receive a serial code immediately after donating. It's not an automatic process.
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Note: The game executable file itself is freely available. It is only the serial code that is an issue.
{{#shtml:SAHDonate}}Please donate between $2 and $6 per serial needed.
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- Details and links for older versions can be found on the Patches and versions article.
- Third-party utilities can be found on the Utilities article.
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Stars! has no installation program, instead you simply unzip it to the directory you wish to keep it (e.g. C:GamesStars!). Some additional recommended steps:
- Right-click on stars.exe and select Send To-Desktop (create shortcut) for easy access. There are a variety of command line options you can use to create customised shortcuts.
- Edit your stars.ini to set options including extended reporting, a default password and additional backups.
- For multi-player games via Stars! AutoHost, consider using AutoHost Client
Because Stars! was designed to run on Windows 3.11 or Windows 95, you may experience problems running it on later Windows versions or other operating systems.
In particular version 2.7 (the retail version) requires wavemix.dll, which can be found on the downloads article.
Windows
3.11
Stars! was designed for this OS. There are no issues using Stars! that I am aware of.
- stars.ini
- stars.ini is located in the windows directory (%WINDOWS% - C:Windows or wherever you installed windows too)
95/98/ME
- wavemix.dll
- Required by v2.7 only. To 'install' it, simply copy it into your C:Windows directory(or wherever you installed Windows.) Wavemix.dll under Windows 9x tends to cause Stars! to crash when other sounds, such as mp3s, are played at the same time Stars! is running. This is not an issue with later versions of Windows.
- stars.ini
- stars.ini is located in the windows directory (%WINDOWS% - C:Windows or wherever you installed windows too)
NT/2000/XP 32bit
- wavemix.dll
- Required by v2.7 only. To 'install' it, simply copy it into your C:Windows directory(or wherever you installed Windows.)
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- stars.ini
- Because stars.ini resides in the windows directory (%WINDOWS% - C:Windows or wherever you installed windows too), Stars! needs to be run by a user with administrator rights for stars.ini to be created. Once created, granting write access will allow all normal Stars! functions. If you do not have and cannot borrow admin rights, Stars! will run just fine without stars.ini, but you will lose the benefits stars.ini provides i.e. you'll have to re-enter your serial every time Stars! is run, Stars will not remember your window layout, zip orders, saved queues or custom fonts.
- General issues
- Occasionally the cursor will disappear when over the map pane. Closing all instances of Stars! and restarting Stars! will fix this.
- If Stars! will not start or causes an error, try using task manager(ctrl-shift-esc) and ending the ntvdm.exe,wowexec.exe and any stars.exe processes (or just the whole ntvdm.exe process tree).
- If Stars! will not run due to an error with the 'win16 subsystem'. Reboot(restart) the computer.
XP 64bit
As with Vista 64bit and Windows 7, requires emulation to work. The simplest solutions are either Win3.x running in DOSBox (below) or MS Virtual PC.
Vista
- 32bit
- Same general issues as NT/2000/XP. In addition, stars.ini is located at: [drive]:users[user]AppDataLocalVirtualStoreWindows and no longer requires administrator rights to be created/used.
- 64bit
- As with XP 64bit and Windows 7, requires emulation to work. The simplest solutions are either Win3.x running in DOSBox (below) or MS Virtual PC.
Windows 7
Windows 7 explicitly does not support legacy 16bit applications, which includes Stars!. The best workaround solutions that have been found are to either:
- Install and use XP Mode of the Windows Virtual PC or
- This solution does not work with Windows 7 Home as XP Mode requires Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise or Ultimate.
- Use an complete OS emulator eg Windows Virtual PC[1], DOSBox (below) or VirtualBox
In addition, stars.ini is located at: [drive]:users[user]AppDataLocalVirtualStoreWindows. Mkv to mp4 1 4 150.
Windows 8
LittleEddie posted that after going from Windows 7 Home 64-Bit to Windows 8 32-Bit Release Preview, with 16-bit mode enabled:
- Stars! Version 2.7 crashes on the BattleBoard with 'Wavemix.dll' being the problem.
- Stars! 2.6j has been running fine with no crashes so far.
NeilHoward points out this is a known issue, as described inhttp://wiki.starsautohost.org/wiki/Patches_and_versions#2.6_vs_2.7
Additionally:
- Stars! Notebook, AutoHost Client both run with no problems.
- Xtreme Borders, will not start, 'Tabctl32.ocx' is a problem.
Android
Stars! will run on Android using the DOSBox setup below.
- Install DosBox Turbo and DosBox Manager
- Expand the archive somewhere on your SD card (or emulated storage)
- You may need to download it to a PC, extract it and zip it for transfer - rar doesn't always expand properly on Android
- Open DosBox Manager, add a new profile and 'Edit Config', 'DosBox Settings' (Advanced DosBox configuration), 'Autoexec' (Edit autoexec.bat) and put in the following:
mount c: /storage/emulated/0/DOSBox/DOSBoxC
c:
windowswin /n c:starsstars.exe -x
exit
- where
/storage/emulated/0/DOSBox/DOSBoxC
is where you have extracted the above rar
- Add your Stars! serial and you're golden.
Linux(WINE)
Screen shot of the Tutorial running under WINE in Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope(guest) on VirtualBox on Windows XP(host)
Stars runs well under WINE.
- 'magic' entry for stars! files (at HWF)
Ubunutu or Debian
Steps to get Stars! running under Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, all typed into a shell:
- Install WINE
sudo apt-get install wine
- make stars executable
chmod +x stars.exe
- run
./stars.exe
Notes
- Sound is sometimes an issue in Wine configuration. It helps to have sound turned off, or use v2.6 rather than 2.7
- At least one user has noticed that the serial number gets prompted for very often under Wine. This is only a minor convenience, and is probably because Stars! keeps detecting what looks like hardware changes. If this is happening players are advised to be careful of triggering the Copy Protection Features i.e. delete your .x file before your final save and submit.
MacOS 9/X
Historically, Macintosh users haven't been able to play Stars! (except by having another machine ..). However, with the recent Macintosh hardware using the x86 CPU, and Wine being ported to MacOS X, this should now be possible, as Stars! runs well under Wine.
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OS/2
No reported issues have been found.
DOSBox
Stars! runs just fine and is very playable under DOSBox.
Install Windows 2000 In Dosbox Emulator Mac
- stars.ini is located in DOSBox's drivewindows directory
StarsWine (Windows)
StasWine was creatd by user raptor on the HWF.Stars! runs just fine and is very playable under Wine for Windows. It actually starts up faster than the DOSBox Stars! above.
- stars.ini is located in the otvdmwindows directory
Portable VirtualBox
Windows 98
A Portable VirtualBox installation of Win98 with Stars! on it. It's setup with a shared folder that can be accessed from the host operating system (tested with WinXP host system). The guest OS is setup for 1024x768 resolution and high color mode.
Runs on a flash drive, 282MB uncompressed.
- see #95/98/ME above for OS details/issues.
- Unzip to the root dir of your flash drive.
- Run Portable-VirtualBox.exe
- When it tells you to install the VirtualBox Ethernet adapter, say Yes, as you'll need that to access the shared Stars folder.
- VirtualBox (the first time it runs) will connect to virtualbox.org and tell you that there is a newer version available. Do not get the newer version. You may want to turn off the VirtualBox update feature in the Options.
- After the VirtualBox window comes up, Start the Win98 Virtual Machine.
- There will be a window telling you how to handle mouse/keyboard inside the virtual environment, and how to transfer control of the keyboard/mouse back to the host computer. VERY IMPORTANT to know. otherwise you'll find your mouse/keyboard locked inside the Win98 VM and can't move out of it.
- At the login prompt, just press Enter (no password). After Windows 98 comes up, you'll see a text file on the desktop which contains instructions on how to access the shared Stars! folder from your host Windows operating system.
- Note that I did not find a way to have the shared folder AND guest Internet access at the same time. Also, the guest Win98 cannot access host system shared folders that I know of, only host access guest Win98 shared Stars! folder.
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Installing DOS Games on Windows 7. To install DOS games on Windows 7, you will first need a DOS emulator. The DOSBOX is one of the best DOS emulators that works with.
I figured this might deserve its own thread since I've been asked / heard this question a number of times. This post has been created in response to this thread: *WARNING: The following instructions delete all data on the hard drive. They may be modified to retain data, but I take no responsibility for data loss.
*KNOWN LIMITATIONS: • Using DOS requires that the drive be formatted in FAT32. It is possible to convert to NTFS later on, but I'll leave that decision up to you.
• Your system must bet set to boot from the floppy drive. A QUICK NOTE: Many users can avoid installation from DOS by using the bootable floppy diskettes provided by Microsoft. You can find them here: The information given will allow the following to happen: 1.) Install Windows 2000 (XP?) if you do not have a bootable CD-ROM. Doesn't W2k/XP setup need files from the subfolders in i386? 'copy *.*' does not take subdirs with it. There is also no need to make the HD bootable or to install the CDROM drivers manually. Download custom Windows 98SE bootdisk from 2.
Download Dosbox
Make the floppy 3. Boot from the floppy. Create and format a partition for w2k setup.
It should be 600MB+ is you skip point 7, 1.2GB+ if not. All the tools you need are on the floppy. Reboot from the floppy 6.
Run smartdrv from the floppy to make things go faster 7. (Optional) use the xcopy command to transfer the i386 folder to the HD.
/E switch is for transferring subdirectories. Run winnt.exe from the CD (or HD if you did the copy thing).
My W2K Pro CD has a directory containing the programs and files required to extract to floppy and create the “boot disks” all 4 of them. With instructions. (like NT used) The Directory is called “MAKEBOOT” And the program called “makeboot.exe” run it and Follow the instructions. Vlc media player 3 0 8 portable. It will create the 4 boot disk set.
To install the OS just Put disk 1 into the floppy drive set your PC to boot from Floppy and reboot then follow the instructions. It'll take you through the install but copy the initial driver pool from the floppies then load the CD after it is done with them.
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Dosbox Install Windows 98
Boot your computer using a Window 98 boot disk. You may need to add Smartdrv.sys to the floppy, to use on older systems. You can find Smartdrv.sys in the TOOLS, OLDDOS directory of a Windows 98 install disk At the A prompt type FDISK, follow instructions to delete an existing partition, or create a partition. At the A prompt type FORMAT C, follow instructions At the A prompt type Smartdrv, press enter At the A prompt type CD E: where E: is the CD ROM Place the OS install CD in the CD Drive At the A prompt type CD i386, press enter At the A prompt type winnt, press enter, follow on screen instructions That's it! Heaven forbid if you have to install any Microsoft OS using floppy disks. I remember installing Windows 95 from floppies.
[*]Enter the command edit C: config.sys [*]Type the following: DEVICE=C: OAKCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD001 [*]Save and exit as you did before [*]Remove your floppy disk, insert the Windows CD and restart the computer. If you have a swappable floppy/CD-ROM, exchange the floppy for the CD drive and insert the Windows 2000 or XP CD. In order for DOS to detect the CD-ROM, it is very important that you have the CD in before your computer boots next time. [*]Your hard drive is now bootable and will now have CD-ROM support[/list] 3.) Getting the Windows 2000 / XP setup started • The Windows 98 logo will appear. Your computer should now boot into DOS at command prompt again.