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After clicking continue, make it a (VDI) Virtual Disk Image). Hard DiskД¬hoose Create a virtual hard disk now. MS-DOS 6.22 supports a maximum of 64MB of RAM, so lets max it out.

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if youвЂ™re unsure of what to do, the manual should have all you need. The installation of VirtualBox is pretty straight forward so IвЂ™m not going to clutter up this post with lengthy instructions. Everything is self-contained and will have no effect out side of the VM, so donвЂ™t be afraid to experiment!

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Virtual Box is a free and open-source application used for installing operating systems in to a вЂњvirtual environmentвЂќ. MS-DOS 6.22 installation floppy disk images.DOS 7.0, which shipped with Windows 95, and subsequent releases were mainly used to bootstrap the Windows GUI and offer a layer of backwards compatibility with existing software. Released sometime in 1994, MS-DOS 6.22 was the last of the вЂњstand aloneвЂќ Disk Operating Systems that Microsoft would release. Honestly, I used it mostly to play Doom 1, Wolfenstein 3D, and a handful of other classics like Quake 1 and Oregon Trail. In my case, DOS was the first вЂњmodernвЂќ OS I had ever used and this would be a nostalgic trip through early 90s computing. Restart the virtual machine and you should be good to go.Probably not so much for profit, but wether its to play some retro video games, a curiosity and interest in vintage computing, or maybe just a stroll through tech-nostalgia, getting DOS 6.22 setup in a virtual machine is a wonderful way to spend 45 minutes. Click on the floppy disk icon, and select 'Remove disk from virtual drive.' When you are prompted to remove disks, switch to VM Manager, and, as before, click on 'Storage' and then select the disk image. Repeat the 'disk swap' procedure to 'insert' setupdisk3.img. Press ENTER and you should see the progress bar continue to about 2/3 mark.ДҐ. Click on OK and switch back to your virtual machine. Make sure it's still the same virtual floppy drive (Floppy device 0).Д¤. Click on the setupdisk1.img to select the drive, and then click on the little floppy disk icon, to navigate to setupdisk2.img, and select this.

When it prompts you to insert the next disk, switch back to the Oracle VM Virtualbox Manager, and click on 'Storage'.

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The machine will reboot, 'format' the drive and install the first disk. Don't worry about formatting your drive - it's just the virtual drive you created previously.ДЈ. Press ENTER to continue with installing MS-DOS. The machine will boot up, and you will be presented with the blue installation screen. Click on OK, and then click on the green 'Start' arrow to run your virtual machine. Choose setupdisk.img as per above instructionsДў. OK, Step 5 gets a little confusing for someone who hasn't played with Virtualbox before.

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If you need serial support, you need to check the check box 'Enable Serial Port', and if you need two ports, go to the 'Port 2' tab and uncheck the same box. This is optional: Next to go the 'Serial Ports' page. I don't know if DOS can access the internet, but this is the setting you would need to perform for any virtual machine to access the internet and the network. Go to the 'Network' tab and choose 'Bridged Adapter', then choose your network adapter. Next go to the 'Audio' page and make sure it is set to SoundBlaster 16.

In the windows that pops up, click 'Leave Empty'. Next go to the 'Storage'В page and click on the 'Add Controller' button. I used 8 MB, but you can use pretty much any amount above the red. Next go to the 'Display' page and set the amount of video memory. Go to the 'System' page and click on the 'Acceleration' tab. (I renamed mine DOS because I already had one nme DOS 6.22) Right click on the virtual machine you just created and click settings.