Favorite DOS games...

doom series - all 4 releases (not shareware version)
police quest series
leisure suit larry series
wolfenstein series (still having control and exit issues with castle wolfenstein in dosbox) but the other 2 work great in ports
retro city rampage

still need to set up:

3 hexen/heretic games

Dominus

Does anyone use controllers for any of the DOS games? I am wondering how good it works?

edmaul69

@Dominus i actually press ctrl and f1 at the same time while in a game to configure the keyboard keys to the controller. I cant get controller dpad to work in several games and in retro city rampage i can only configure 3 buttons to the controller when i need 6 so i have to use the dosbox keyboard config to set up my controller as keyboard functions

Ekstreme

Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
Stunt Racer
Day of the Tentacle

Concat

I just use linuxjoystickmapper... mainly because I wanted to map mouse to a joystick, which you cant do in the dosbox mapper.

edmaul69

@Concat soooooo the shoe is now on the other foot... Please do tell me how i get and use the linuxmapper?

suprjami

@Dominus Apparently DOSBox native joystick support isn't great, but the keymapper is spot on, as per my post above.

suprjami

@edmaul69 I linked his thread above.

edmaul69

@suprjami cool. I actually have joymap for the atari 800 emulator for the 5200 but i downloaded it already preconfigured. I guess i will have to figure out using it. Thanks. I will trifle through that thread and learn all this.

LSolrac2

Doom (2)
Wolfenstein
Daggerfall <3 <3

HPK-de

Ok, i´m a bit of a DOS Freak, i´ve got all my old games up and running, and i´m still buying games from E-Bay or GOG. But most of them are old treasures from my childhood days, which i had lying around....
I bought lots of games back then and in the late 90s i had ( thank god) the idea to make backups of all the floppies on CDs..... I don´t think the floppies are readable anymore....

Besides a Sega Master System, i never had any consoles, so the RPi ist mostly a "DosBox".
Some of these games require ISO Files, some Windows 3.11 installed, some needs a bit tweaking around (Strike Commander, Ultima 7) and some really needs a Raspberry PI 3.....
And my 32GB card is filling rapidly ;-)

Dosbox:
1869
Astrofire
Caesar II
Capitalism Plus
Capture the Flag
Conqueror AD 1086
Conquest of the New World
The Clou
The Patrician
Fugger II (the Guild)
Die Kathedrale (german Text Adventure)
Doom
Duke Nuken 3D
Elizabeth I (Ascaron)
Football Ltd
Grand Prix 2
GTA 1
Gunship 2000
Hanse
Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures (Win 3.11)
Lemmings
Links 386
Mad TV
Need for Speed 1
Oil Imperium (aka Black Gold)
Oldtimer
Pirates Gold
Popolous
Ports of Call
Raptor (Apogee)
Rome AD 92
Ruesselsheim
Sid Meiers Civilization 1
Sid Meiers Civilization 2 (Win 3.11)
Sid Meiers Colonization
Sid Meiers Railroad Tycoon 1
Sim Ant
Sim City
Sim City 2000
Spaceward Ho!
Starttrek 25th Anniversary
Strike Commander
4D Sports Drivin (aka Stunts)
The incredible Machine 2
Theme Park
Ultima 4
Ultima 7
Wing Commander
Wing Commander Privateer
Wolfenstein 3D
Worlds of Ultima - Savage Empire
Worlds of Ultima - Martian Dreams
X-Wing
You dont know Jack (Windows 3.11).

Dos Games via ScummVM:

Broken Sword
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Indiana Jones 3+4
Loom
Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes 1+2
Lure of the Temptress
Mainac Mansion 1+2
Sam n Max
The 7th Guest
The Secret of Monkey Island 1+2+3
Zac Mac Kracken.

coming soon: You dont know jack 2+3 (bought via Ebay, awaited for the weekend ;-)...).

backstander

@HPK-de that's an impressive collection of MSDOS games! I had a Atari 5200, NES, Gameboy & TurboGrafx16/CD so I missed out on owning the other 16bit consoles but I had a good PC to play many of those same MSDOS games! I can remember back in the 90s going to the mall and checking the good old bargain bin and picking up some under the radar games for cheap. I use Dosbox much because I've been catching up on the other consoles I didn't own and playing through some of the classics.

I saw on your list you got Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures running in Win 3.x. I use to have the demo for that game and always wanted the full version. I remember it being a lot of fun.

I loved all the id software games and games that used their engines (like Heretic, Hexen, Strafe) but I use the Linux ports because they typically play better than they do in Dosbox.

Here's what I have tried in Dosbox:

The Elder Scrolls: Arena (now full game is free to download)
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (now full game is free to download)
Death Gate (based on a great book with a great story)
Rise of the Dragon
Formula One Grand Prix
Isle of the Dead (crappy bargain bin game)

Games I plan to install in Dosbox:

Abuse
Alone in the Dark 1, 2 & 3
Arkanoid
Corridor 7: Alien Invasion (I own it but never beat it)
Dark Seed
The Dark Half
Dune
Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures (Win 3.x)
Dungeon Keeper
FlashBack
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Iron Blood
It Came From The Desert
Legend of Kyrandia
One Must Fall 2097
Operation Bodycount (crappy bargain bin game)
Phantasmagoria
Powerslave
Prince of Persia
Quarantine
Stunts
SkyRoads
Street Rod 1 & 2
Stunt Island
Test Drive 1 & 2

My ScummVM list:

Beneath a Steel Sky
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Full Throttle
Indiana Jones 3+4
Loom
Lure of the Temptress
Return to Zork
The Dig

edmaul69

For me scanlines on dosbox and lr-prboom was a must. I have scanlines on all my tv/monitor based systems minus the few with no option.

Concat

What are the benefits to using ScummVM over dosbox for those old point and click games like Beneath a Steel Sky or The Dig?

Actually, I hate separating out ports, Scumm and Dos games in retropie... I've already started moving over the bashscripts to start the ports games from PC. I'd rather just have one folder called Computer Games... also helps the kids make sense of the category because ScummVM is not self explanatory for the layman.

backstander

@Concat well Dosbox is kind of like a one size fits all MSDOS emulator and ScummVM is geared for certain point & click adventure games that use the SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) game engine even though I can play a couple non-SCUMM games. "The benefit of ScummVM is the ease of use for the games it does support, as well as a GUI interface that makes it simple to change graphics and audio settings."

If you had to pick just one then go with Dosbox but the beauty of RetroPie is you don't have to!

Edit: this is something I found describing the difference:
http://siliconangle.com/blog/2014/12/08/dosbox-vs-scummvm-what-plays-old-games-better/