DosBox

http://www.dosbox.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFWCp9OM5Gs

Back in 1995 I brought home my first laptop from work. It was in some sense my first PC. And the very first piece of software I bought for it was Fuzzys World of Miniature Space Golf (on floppy disk of course, there were no cds back then). This wasn’t even a Windows game, it was a DOS game (though it had amazing graphics for the time).

Roughly 15 years have come and gone since then, and something reminded me of the game. I found it, but it is just too old to run on Windows 7’s version of the dos prompt. Well I went through some effort to set up a DOS VM (Virtual machine) that ultimately didn’t pan out. But then I came across an open source dos emulator, DosBox. Within 10 minutes of finding it, with very little fuss, I had my old game up and running, just as good as I remember it. Very fun, very nostalgic!