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How to Play Dos Games on Android with DosBox Turbo

How to Play Dos Games on Android with DosBox Turbo

Original "Beginning DosBox Turbo for Newbies" main page click here

More help and device specific questions can be found in the FAQ here

Download Free DOS Shareware games here

This guide will teach you how to play the popular Dos game DOOM on Android:

Step 1) Install DosBox Turbo or aFreeBox onto your Android device:

DosBox Turbo Play Store (Paid)

Or

aFreeBox Play Store(Free but Slower)

Or

Magic DosBox Play Store (Free)

Step 2) Download Dos Games:

-In this example, we will be using the free DOOM Shareware package

-Click here to download the "doom19s.zip" shareware to your computer or Android device

-Most DOS games arrive in a zip archive, some need to be unpacked with a .bat file into a seperate folder

-Once you've completed this guide Download the DOS Freeware/Shareware game of your choice here

Step 3) Unzip your Game folder:

-On PC unzip the archive using a program like WinRAR or WinZip

-The "doom19s.zip" will unzip to a folder on your PC called "doom19s"

Or

-On Android use the ZArchiver app here to unzip the Dos games directly into the "Download" folder.

Step 4) Copy the game folder to your Android Device:

On PC-Plug your Android device into your computer via USB cable and locate the "Download" folder in the root directory of your internal storage.

-Copy the "doom19s" folder and other games into the "Download" folder

-On Android- The files should already be in the "Download" folder

(Optional)Create a new folder called "dos" where you can put all our DOS games to keep them organized

-This is very helpful but do it once you're familiar with navigating DOS

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Step 5) Setup the GamePad app or a Game Controller:

-If you don't have a controller install and Enable the free GamePad application on your Android Device to get cursor controls here

-Once installed click the GamePad icon and follow the steps to enable it on your Android device

-Then follow the video for instructions on how to mapping the keys to play doom

Note: The instructions for mapping buttons on the gamepad are the same as mapping an actual controller (Xbox360, Nvidia Shield, Xperia Play). Follow this video to setup the controls for playing doom on Android

Step 6) Start DosBox Turbo and configure the game settings:

-Start the DosBox Turbo app and when you see the dos prompt (c: \)

-Now you will need to bring up the Keyboard and begin typing

How to bring up the keyboard:

In Portrait Orientation: At the top of the screen, you'll see a keyboard icon, click this to show/hide the keyboard.

In Landscape Orientation: There will be no icon bar at the top of the screen. You can swipe down (from top to bottom) to bring up the icon bar with the Keyboard icon. Swipe Up to hide it again.

In ANY orientation: You always have the option of swiping (from LEFT to RIGHT) across your screen to bring up the "Quick Menu". From the Quick Menu you can enable/disable the keyboard.

Finally, after you brought up the keyboard we're ready to input dos commands

Many games will need to be unpacked before launching

Type the following to unpack the files for doom

c:\> cd doom19s

c:\doom19s> install

-You will be asked "which drive to install to? (example:C)" press c

-It will ask "Enter directory name to copy into:" by default its "DOOMS" press enter to confirm

-Next "That directory does not exist! Create it?" press y

-You'll be asked about the setup keep pressing enter till the game launches.

-A new folder will be created called "DOOMS" @ c:\DOOMS and the game's data will be extracted there

DOOM should now launch. If you are using the free GamePad keyboard, switch from the keyboard to the gamepad by swiping from left to right across the keyboard itself. You can also run the setup.exe if you want to change the DOOM settings. The procedure is basically the same for most Dos games.

The next time you launch doom you will need to direct Dos to the newly created "DOOMS" folder:

c:\> cd dooms

c:\DOOMS> doom

To run the doom setup again do the following:

c:\> cd dooms

c:\DOOMS> setup

How to Launch other Dos Games:

-To launch other games replace the doom folder and exe names with ones from your desired game.

c:\> cd "game folder name here"

c:"game folder name here"> "game .exe or .bat name here"

Basic Dos Commands you will need full list here and here and here:

cd "your folder here" = change directory to the specified location

cd.. = change directory back one folder in the file system

cd\ = Takes you back to the root directory (c: in this case)

dir = list all the files in the current directory

-If you don't know the name of the file to launch a game or unpack an archive type dir to list the files

-Any files listed that end in .exe or .bat are the ones to input, for example, install.bat, SETUP.exe DOOM.exe

How to Quick Launch Games with DosBox Manager:

-Click here for and a great guide for setting up games with Dosbox Manager app

-You can use the DosBox manager app here to create and store multiple dosbox.conf files like the one I've posted below.

-These can be used to quickly launch games

-You create a profile for each game that saves your settings and makes an auto exe for Dos commands

-Watch the instructional video

Auto exe Examples:

Fallout 1 Auto exe:

mount c: /storage/emulated/0/Download/

c:

cd fallout

fallout

DOOM Auto exe:

mount c: /storage/emulated/0/Download/

c:

cd dooms

doom

Get the Hackers Keyboard with useful Arrow<^> keys:

Get the free Hackers Keyboard here from the Play Store

-It has a better layout for playing games and includes directional keys.

-Click to see the pic.

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How to use Virtual On Screen Buttons:

DosBox Turbo has 4 programmable virtual buttons that can be used for additional in-game controls.

-Click to see the pic.

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-In the DosBox settings menu check “Overlay Buttons”.

-Open “Button/Controller Maps” and choose “Add button Mapping”.

-A new label will appear, click it “Map custom Button (x)”

-At the top select 1 of 4 custom buttons to map

-Now select “Dos key mapping” and assign a key to the button.

-Once done select ok and repeat this for all 4 buttons.

-A good setup for playing fallout would be:

-Btn A=space, Btn B=b, Btn C=I, Btn D=s

-space=end turn, b=change hands, i=inventory, s=skill index,

-There is a Fast Forward button at the very bottom of the “Dos key mapping” menu, scroll down all the way.

-Map this key and you can hold it down to increase the cycles.

-This helps to speed up long load times, but note it will distort any audio that is playing.

How to play Games Fullscreen (No Black Bars):

-To play games fullscreen you'll need to disable the default Aspect Ratio setting

-This will stretch images to fill your display and remove the black bars from the sides of the screen

-Go to DosBox Settings/Keep Aspect Ratio remove the checkmark

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How to Enable MIDI support:

-Open the dosbox.conf files and make the following changes

[midi]

# Only enable MIDI if you have the necessary MT32 ROM files

mpu401=intelligent

mididevice=mt32

mt32.thread=on

mt32.verbose=off

How to Play Classis GOG.com Dos Games with 3Dfx Glide Support:

-You will need to have 3Dfx support enabled in DosBox Turbo app

-Open the settings menu from either the pull-down menu at the Top or left side swiping menu

-Go to “DosBox Settings/Advanced DosBox Config” check “3DFX Glide Support” restart the app before these changes will take effect

-For games to play Dos Games with 3Dfx glide support (Blood, Tomb Raider,ect) you will need to download and extract this glide2x.ovl file into your game folder here

How to Use DosBox Turbo with GOG.img files and ISO's in Dos Games:

-Download pre-made configs for Blood and Tombraider with auto exes to launch the games here

Mounting ISO and IMG files with Dosbox Turbo:

1) Run DosBox go to “DosBox Settings/Advanced DosBox Config” check “3DFX Glide Support” and “Manual Mode”. You must restart the app before these changes will take effect.

2)Some games have ISO or IMG files that must be mounted in order to play the games. GOG games have data image files called "game.gog", you will need to mount these in order to play your GOG games. I suggest you add a line to your DosBox Turbo config file. You can do this by opening up your dosbox.conf file and adding the following lines. Note you can also manually type these commands into Dosbox Turbo but you will need to repeat this each time before launching the game. In addition, you can use the free Dosbox manager to create a quick launch profile with the auto exe lines and ISO/IMG file commands.

imgmount d: /sdcard/[path_to_game]/game.gog -t iso

or

imgmount d: /sdcard/[path_to_game]/gamename.iso -t iso

In this example the game data is located on your Android device in a folder named "tomb".

imgmount d: /sdcard/tomb/game.gog -t iso

In this example the game data is located on your Android device in a folder named "blood".

imgmount d: /sdcard/blood/game.gog -t iso

How to play the Elder Scrolls II - Daggerfall on Android:

How to Benchmark Dosbox Turbo:

Dos Doom Shareware Benchmarking:

Download the Doom and Quake Shareware package for Dosbox Turbo here

The Doom 1 timedemo 3 is used as the main benchmark for Dosbox turbo. To keep the results accurate across devices users should use the Doom1 Shareware v1.9 in conjunction with a preset Dosbox config file. The config file will automatically run the test and display the results.

Doom time demo results will be displayed as gameticks and realticks. In order to calculate the average Frames per second (FPS) we will enter these results into this equation 35(gameticks/realticks). The gameticks will always be 2134 for the Doom Shareware V1.9. If you have a different number then you aren’t using this version and results will not be comparable. Compare your results with those on the Dosbox Turbo performance page here

1) You will need to have the DosBox Turbo app installed on your Android device. Run DosBox Turbo and open the settings menu from either the pull down menu at the Top or left side swiping menu. Go to “DosBox Settings/Advanced DosBox Config” check “Manual Mode”. You must restart the app before these changes will take effect.

2) Download the Doom v1.9 shareware and config with Auto exe. Copy this file and folder into the root directory of your internal storage space. This is the area that opens by default from your computer with the USB cable, all your Android data is located here. The folder should be called doom and have all the data contained within. You can manually run the test by launching Doom, bringing up the console by pressing (`)and typing “timedemo demo 3”.

3) Launch the Dosbox Turbo app from your device and Doom will start and run time demo 3. Once complete you will see your results that you can calculate your average FPS from. Round up your results to the nearest 0.1FPS.

-Click to see pic.

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4)Compare your results with the chart on the DosBox Turbo Performance Page here

Multiplatform benchmarking with Quake 1 in Win9x and Dos:

You can benchmark the Quake 1 timedemo in both Dos and win9x. This will allow you compare performance between Dos, win9x and win9x with Glide 3Dfx support. Results will be displayed as average frames per second (FPS). Dosbox Auto exe configs can be used for Dos benchmarks and automated benchmark shortcuts are used with win9x.

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1) You will need to have the DosBox Turbo app installed on your Android device. Run the DosBox Turbo app and open the settings menu from either the pull-down menu at the Top or left side swiping menu. Go to “DosBox Settings/Advanced DosBox Config” check “3DFX Glide Support” and “Manual Mode”. You must restart the app before these changes will take effect.

2) Download the Quake shareware demo and config files. Copy the Quake folder into your devices internal storage space. This is the area that opens by default from your computer with the USB cable, all your Android data is located here. The folder should be called quake and have all the data contained within.

3) To run the Quake 1 Dos benchmark, copy the Quake Dos config from the folder onto your device. Launch the Dosbox Turbo app from your device and Quake will start and run the time demo via the auto exe. Once complete you will see your results as an average FPS. If it doesn’t start you can manually run the test by launching Quake, bringing up the console by pressing(`) and typing “timedemo demo1”.

4) To run the Quake win9x benchmark copy the Quake win9x config from the folder onto your device. Place the Quake shareware demo folder into your HDD image, save it and transfer it to the device. This is the same procedure covered in the video for playing PC games with Dosbox Turbo. Launch the app to start win9x, open the shortcut to D and find the Quake folder. Inside this folder you will find several benchmark shortcuts for both regular quake and GL quake. Two Quake mods have been added to the folder to enable 3DfX glide support, Pro quake and Joe quake. Run one of these shortcuts to automatically start the benchmark and display results once complete. Note Pro Quake is the recommended benchmark for Quake in win9x. Joe Quake displays more of the screen and is, therefore, harder to run but is more enjoyable for playing the actual game demo. All comparable benchmark results should be done with either Pro Quake or Pro Quake GL. Note the shortcut links expect the game data to be located @ D:\quake.

Quake Benchmark Shortcut Legend:

-wqpro-Benchmark (Pro Quake Software Benchmark)

-glpro-Benchmark (Pro Quake GL Benchmark)

-joequake-Benchmark (Joe Quake Software Benchmark)

-joequake-gl-Benchmark (Joe Quake GL Benchmark)

-winquake-Benchmark (Default software Benchmark)