
Windows 7: press CTRL and ESC (or click start button), type in dosbox and the options file should appear in the search results, click it.This way the games folder and your CD/DVD drive will be mounted automatically when you start DOSBox. As you always will need these virtual drives in DOSBox after installation to play Tomb Raider, it is recommended to put the mount commands in your DOSBox configuration file.Obviously, replace i: with the drive letter of your CD drive This will create a virtual CD drive d: in DOSBox, which will use the CD/DVD drive i: in your system. To mount your CD/DVD drive (in this example drive i:), type in mount d i:\ -t cdrom and press enter.When the name of your games folder contains spaces, you have to use quotes around the folder path and type in mount c "c:\games\dos games" and press enter.This will create a virtual drive c: in DOSBox, which will use the c:\games\dos folder on your hard drive c: To mount the folder in which you will install Tomb Raider, type in mount c c:\games\dos and press enter.To make folders and drives accessible in DOSBox, you need to mount them.Start DOSBox from the desktop or the Windows start menu.


Install and play Tomb Raider 1 from original CD.

In this guide we'll explain how to get the game running in DOSBox, when you use the original installation CD. As the initial resolution of Tomb Raider is very low (320x240), we also have several options to upgrade the resolution of the game.

The first game of the Tomb Raider series is a DOS game from 1996 and therefore can only be played well with DOSBox on systems with Windows 11 or Windows 10, especially when those OS's are 64 bit.
