If emulating classic DOS games seems like a pain, there's a DOSBox fork 'aiming for simplicity and ease of use', now standalone for the first time

Run the likes of Civilization and Daggerfall as God intended, now easily loaded directly from ZIP files.
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5 DOSBox Forks That Are Better Than the Vanilla Release

DOSBox makes it possible to play games and run software designed for MS-DOS on a wide range of platforms. Though this emulator makes interacting with DOS relatively straightforward, the open-source ...