Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Here it is. A guide to setting up your very on windows machine within DosBox. I'm using 98 Second Edition because:
1: It incudes most of the drivers you already need.
2: Windows 95 crashes all the time and Windows ME? ... Who hurt you?
3: DosBox Pure is far and away the easiest build of DosBox to set up and take advantage of it's feature set.
I probably could have gone over a couple more topics but I was running out of Windows XP music to use. I already had the video rendered when I thought about the XP installation music, and then found the tour music. It was so darn cozy I knew I absolutely had to add it in.
Software:
Dosbox Pure Unleased: github.com/schellingb/dosbox-pure-unleashed
Voodoo 1 Drivers: 3dfxarchive.com/voodoo1.htm
Direct X: 3dfxarchive.com/directx.htm
Win 98 Unofficial service pack (And other things you might find useful): dosbox95.darktraveler.com/important.html
7-Zip: 7-zip.org
0:00 Setting up the initial environment (Google fu ahoy!)
4:00 Cozy Install Speed-run (Velkommen!)
7:03 Dosbox and video settings (Fortunately, DosBox Pure is relatively idiot proof.)
8:13 Fixing the Keyboard (It wouldn't be windows 9x without driver shenanigans.)
9:20 Voodoo 1 Drivers (Old timey drivers were fun. Now days, everything is so... official.)
11:28 The Unofficial service pack (3rd Party fixes were always a cross your fingers and pray to god affair.)
12:25 Oops... I've done borkened-ed it!
12:46 Disabling the network adapter (You're not seriously planning on getting on the internet with this thing are you?)
13:00 DirectX 8 (Seems like forever since Microsoft last touched it's graphics API)
13:37 Adding discs and files to windows (You might end up reconsidering this method when the archive gets to be 35GBs in size.)
14:39 Auto-start (Launching windows 98 just by double click a file is a mood)
14:48 Installing software (He said "It's gamin' time, and then proceeded to game all over the place.)
15:03 Civilization II test (This is where the series peaked. Fight me on this!)
16:37 Descent 3 (Late 90s was when us joystick fans were eating good.)
17:37 Dosbox video settings (A lot of crazy voodoo going on up in here.)
18:29 Descent 3 Cont... (I'm still surprised DosBox is not crying in a corner over this.)
20:10 Setting up joysticks and controllers in Dosbox Pure (If you split your discs into multiple archives, you can have separate configurations per game.)
22:35 Joystick setup in Windows 98 (Because nothing can ever be simple can it?)
25:03 Setting up MIDI playback (Where I waste everyone's time at the end rocking out to passport.mid. I'm clearly a menace that needs to be stopped.)
Here it is. A guide to setting up your very on windows machine within DosBox. I'm using 98 Second Edition because:
1: It incudes most of the drivers you already need.
2: Windows 95 crashes all the time and Windows ME? ... Who hurt you?
3: DosBox Pure is far and away the easiest build of DosBox to set up and take advantage of it's feature set.
I probably could have gone over a couple more topics but I was running out of Windows XP music to use. I already had the video rendered when I thought about the XP installation music, and then found the tour music. It was so darn cozy I knew I absolutely had to add it in.
Software:
Dosbox Pure Unleased: github.com/schellingb/dosbox-pure-unleashed
Voodoo 1 Drivers: 3dfxarchive.com/voodoo1.htm
Direct X: 3dfxarchive.com/directx.htm
Win 98 Unofficial service pack (And other things you might find useful): dosbox95.darktraveler.com/important.html
7-Zip: 7-zip.org
0:00 Setting up the initial environment (Google fu ahoy!)
4:00 Cozy Install Speed-run (Velkommen!)
7:03 Dosbox and video settings (Fortunately, DosBox Pure is relatively idiot proof.)
8:13 Fixing the Keyboard (It wouldn't be windows 9x without driver shenanigans.)
9:20 Voodoo 1 Drivers (Old timey drivers were fun. Now days, everything is so... official.)
11:28 The Unofficial service pack (3rd Party fixes were always a cross your fingers and pray to god affair.)
12:25 Oops... I've done borkened-ed it!
12:46 Disabling the network adapter (You're not seriously planning on getting on the internet with this thing are you?)
13:00 DirectX 8 (Seems like forever since Microsoft last touched it's graphics API)
13:37 Adding discs and files to windows (You might end up reconsidering this method when the archive gets to be 35GBs in size.)
14:39 Auto-start (Launching windows 98 just by double click a file is a mood)
14:48 Installing software (He said "It's gamin' time, and then proceeded to game all over the place.)
15:03 Civilization II test (This is where the series peaked. Fight me on this!)
16:37 Descent 3 (Late 90s was when us joystick fans were eating good.)
17:37 Dosbox video settings (A lot of crazy voodoo going on up in here.)
18:29 Descent 3 Cont... (I'm still surprised DosBox is not crying in a corner over this.)
20:10 Setting up joysticks and controllers in Dosbox Pure (If you split your discs into multiple archives, you can have separate configurations per game.)
22:35 Joystick setup in Windows 98 (Because nothing can ever be simple can it?)
25:03 Setting up MIDI playback (Where I waste everyone's time at the end rocking out to passport.mid. I'm clearly a menace that needs to be stopped.)
