Unless they get some special treatment from GOG or fans, you generally need something like DOSBox to actually run them. Then again, I don’t know what, if anything, would prevent just installing DOS on your PC (to another partition or drive at least).
Also pretty much every Nintendo game excluding Switch 2 titles. For now.
Then again, I don’t know what, if anything, would prevent just installing DOS on your PC (to another partition or drive at least).
Drivers.
Even, maybe especially, during the actual DOS days drivers were something that could take days to weeks, literally, to install. And that’s assuming you got a disk with your device and didn’t buy second hand and just had to call in to the manufacturer and hope they sold the disks separate.
Nowadays nothing you have in your computer has effective DOS drivers. This means outside of the literal command prompt, you aren’t doing much. If it requires sound or direct video access, you’re more likely to directly lay an egg out of every orifice after winning the lottery from a ticket purchased with a golden dollar found on your way to bang a supermodel that recently themselves managed to lay an egg out of all their orifices specifically in front of Abraham Lincoln’s scientifically proven but ironic reincarnation as a black dwarf.
If you have to run literally any software that is not exclusively text based that was meant for dos, just use dosbox.
Old DOS games.
Unless they get some special treatment from GOG or fans, you generally need something like DOSBox to actually run them. Then again, I don’t know what, if anything, would prevent just installing DOS on your PC (to another partition or drive at least).
Also pretty much every Nintendo game excluding Switch 2 titles. For now.
Don’t all MS-DOS games use DOSBox in GOG releases? Still emulation in that case.
Drivers.
Even, maybe especially, during the actual DOS days drivers were something that could take days to weeks, literally, to install. And that’s assuming you got a disk with your device and didn’t buy second hand and just had to call in to the manufacturer and hope they sold the disks separate.
Nowadays nothing you have in your computer has effective DOS drivers. This means outside of the literal command prompt, you aren’t doing much. If it requires sound or direct video access, you’re more likely to directly lay an egg out of every orifice after winning the lottery from a ticket purchased with a golden dollar found on your way to bang a supermodel that recently themselves managed to lay an egg out of all their orifices specifically in front of Abraham Lincoln’s scientifically proven but ironic reincarnation as a black dwarf.
If you have to run literally any software that is not exclusively text based that was meant for dos, just use dosbox.