CAUTION:

This is a test version in ALPHA stadium! You run the virtual machine on your
OWN risk. I am not responsible for damages caused by this virtual machine!

Important notices:

If you insert this vm into vmware for the first time ensure that you do the following
things:

a) Start vmware player, goto "File" "Open a virtual machine" and look for the FreeDOS-games
vmx / vmdk files and add them to vmware.

b) When you are asked if you moved or copied the machine, enter: "I copied it".

c) To enter new files / games into your vm:
 Insert a FAT16 / FAT32 formatted USB-stick (pendrive) in your computer (not necessary
if your Windows system uses FAT16 / FAT32) and look for the drive letter of this pendrive.
Goto vmware "edit virtual machine settings "Options" "Shared Folders". Change the settings to
"Always enabled" - and then goto "Folders" on the right side and add the drive letter (maybe
also with a path) to the drive letter of your pendrive. At "name" enter something like "USB".
The reason: As FreeDOS only recognizes FAT16 / FAT32 partitions it will not find your NTFS
drive or one of its subdirectories!
(Example: Enter "F:\FreeDOS" if your USB-stick (pendrive) has the path F:\FreeDOS).

d) Start the new FreeDOS-games machine in vmware.

e) IMPORTANT: To be able to enter a text you first have to click into the DOS window with
your mouse. To come out of the DOS window again you have to type ALT-CTRL (ALT-STRG) on
your keyboard!

f) To connect your virtual DOS machine with your USB-stick (pendrive) you first have to finish
the menu until C:\> appears. Then type "vmsmount /L:E /LFN" to be connected with your
FAT-formatted USB-stick (pendrive). 

g) "dir" shows you the directory on the pendrive. In the mentioned example "USB" should be
   shown.
   "cd name of directory" changes into this directory. "cd USB" should change to the
   directory USB. Here you should now see the files that are at F:\FreeDOS of your pendrive.
   You can work with them as you want.
   "cd .." changes one step back to the root.
   "cd \" changes back to the root.
   "copy example.exe c:\FreeDOS" copies the file example.exe to c:\FreeDOS of your vm.

The FreeDOS-game vm has the Volkov Commander (NC Clone) on board. This is a comfortable tool
to administrate files and directories with the mouse. To start it type "vc" in the command line.
FreeDOS does not distinguish between small and CAPITAL letters. So there is no difference,
if you type c:\freedos or C:\FREEDOS.

h) To start the games menu again, type either:
aa) menue (for the main menu)
bb) ems (for the ems menu)
cc) noemm386 (for the noemm386 menu)
dd) nohimem (for the nohimem menu)
The games on bb) - dd) may not work properly because of the settings in config.sys / autoexec.bat

i) FreeDOS has no option to shut down the computer as newer OSes have. So simply type
"ALT-CTRL" (ALT-STRG) to come out of the DOS window and close the vmware window. To reboot,
you can type: "fdisk /reboot".

j) Enjoy!