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dfxm12today at 3:36 AM0 repliesview on HN

My goal is to get more of this good DOS and early Windows educational software working for my children.

FYI, you can play in the browser on Internet archive: /msdos_Super_Solvers_Spellbound_1993

That meets your stated goal.

A more fun solution might be a Mister. If you're unfamiliar, it's like a hardware emulator. I've been playing gizmos and gadgets on it. If you really want the feeling of swapping disks, I have my Mister installed in a Macintosh iisi case asking with an nfc reader. I put nfc tags on old blank floppies so that when I insert the disk into the case, the nfc reader reads it and software (zaparoo) loads the game based on the tag...