DOS Games in Windows 8 - Installing DOSBox Emulator and Creating Tiles
20This series of videos shows you how to create Start Screen tiles for all the Old DOS games. Normally, you can't have a tile unless a program is installed through the normal Windows install and it is recorded as an installed program.
Since DOS games pre-date the Windows installer, they simply are located on your hard drive and you run them. In earlier versions of Windows, you could just put a link on your desktop or Start menu and run it from there. To do it in Windows 8, there is a very simple trick to get an icon on your Start Screen.
To correctly run DOS programs on any version of Windows, you need the DOS emulator that sets up a virtual DOS machine on your system. You can download it from http://www.dosbox.com.
Create a DOS directory where you can save and then install DOSBox in. Add in all your old DOS games in the same directory and then follow this video to configure it.
At the end, it demonstrates how to create a icon for the game using Paint so you don't need any other program. Then we have the instruction to configure a shortcut to DOSbox with the correct icon and add it to your Start Screen as a tile with the proper icon.