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pcem or box86 with freedos, for somewhat accurate experience.

dosbox-x or dosbox-staging for playing games specifically.

These are both forks of dosbox, as that is dead and has been for a decade or so. They've had releases, but no real progress.

They're actively hostile to outside collaborators (thus the forks), and basically censor the vogons forums they moderate to hide the existence of forks[0]. Scummy.

[0] https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging/issues/217

Wordperfect is available on WinWorld:

https://winworldpc.com/product/wordperfect/5x-dos

That said, I know for fact that WP is not abandonware, so I'm not sure about the legality of this.

The entire download of the executable is less than 4MB! and the manual is 26.2 MB! :)

Lotus 123 for spreadsheets.

WordPerfect for a different word processor. Bonus points if you start Word Perfect in full screen text mode. http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/wpfullscreentextmode.gif

QuarkXPress for desktop publishing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7360076

dBaseII for databases.

Elite for games, but don't forget to turn off Turbo.

Run Dosbox https://www.dosbox.com/ and checkout FreeDos http://www.freedos.org/