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Emulators and front-ends

Old games are not easy to run on modern systems. To make life easier for retro gaming fans, there's a plethora of software available, often for free. The DOS games available on Abandonware need an DOS emulator to run and DOSBOX is by far the most popular of them all. Front-ends are programs that help with emulators that don't include a graphical interface.

Most popular emulator games

D-Fend Reloaded

applicationWindows XP/98/95

DOSBox

applicationWindows XP/98/95, Linux

DBGL: DOSBox Game Launcher

applicationWindows XP/98/95

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D-Fend Reloaded

Windows XP/98/952008freeware4.3/5

D-Fend Reloaded it's one of the most user-friendly front ends for the popular DOS-BOX emulator. The installer download includes the latest versione of DOS-BOX and is available for free for Windows
DBGL: DOSBox Game Launcher

Windows XP/98/952017freeware4.4/5

DBGL is a free and open-source frontend for DOSBox available for many platforms, developed in Java.
DOSBox

Windows XP/98/95Linux2002freeware4.2/5