MathBlaster, American Girl Premiere, DosBox-X, Win 3.1

dosbox-x-win-3.1.md

Install DOSBox-X

choco install dosbox-x

Download Dos games

https://archive.org/details/mathblasterepisode1 (single mathblaster folder)

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/the-american-girls-premiere-fpd (iso's preinstalled in windows 3.1)

https://archive.org/details/amgirl-prem-1sted (only the iso files)

Download and unzip the archives.

Run Dos programs

Opening DoxBox-X is really nice on Windows 11+. It's a great interface. Usually I just use

DOSBox-X > Main > Quick Launch Program

And then navigate to where I have a dos exe to run.

But for these that require a Windows install, I mount an extracted Win 3.1 install to the C: using

DOSBox-X > Drive > C > Mount folder as harddrive

The abandonware link above has a full install of windows plus the american girls game and the two disks.

Besides mounting the c drive, you also need to mount the iso of the second disk

DOSBox-X > Drive > D > Mount a disk or CD Image

AmGirl\cd\AMGIRL2.iso

Launching Windows

c:
cd WINDOWS
win

Capture the Mouse

DOSBox-X > Main > Capture Mouse (Ctrl f10)

Mouse Speed

I had to turn down the mouse speed in the Windows Host, so that it was slow enough for the tiny dosbox windows (even in full screen). Maybe there's a setting in dosbox to adjust the speed, but I didn't find it yet.