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I want to run many old windows [95 - XP] applications and games. If there is a way to have minimal os emulator (at least with all dependencies of that app/game) it would be great to have it as a container for that app.

I tried setting up qemu once by downloading many images. Almost none worked with apps I wanted to run. Also I had a very hard time finding a sane qemu documentation in one place. It's wiki is very messy to go through.

So is there anything to run win 98 to win xp apps in emulator/sandbox/container easily?



I haven't tested it yet, but I recently came across boxedwine[0] which is basically wine + an emulation of the linux syscalls + graphical api forwarded to the host. All that wrapped in SDL.

[0] http://www.boxedwine.org/


From apps and games page it looks like it will run all apps I want. Thanks.


Best I've found so far is dosbox-x at https://dosbox-x.com/


Is there an easy to follow documentation for dosbox-x? And can it work with pre-built images?

I have tried to use it a few times but got overwhelmed by all the options. From the screenshot it looks exactly what I want (only for windows 98 though).




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