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The following instructions worked for me for Windows and they use the package the user nuclear uploaded(thanks nuclear):

Get Windows tools to extract files
1) Download 7-zip from here: https://www.7-zip.org/download.html

The direct link I used was: https://www.7-zip.org/a/7z1900-x64.exe

2) Run the 7-zip installer. This should install 7-Zip in the Right Click Menu or the Context Menu of Windows Explorer.


Get PCEm for Windows

3) Download the latest version of pcem for windows from https://pcem-emulator.co.uk

The direct link I used was: https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/files/PCemV15Win.zip
Right click the file PCemV15Win.zip and choose 7-Zip and then Extract to "PCemV15Win\" 
Open the recently extracted folder PCemV15Win and leave it open. We'll copy files there in a later step.


Get the dosdev package

4) Download the Download the package by nuclear here: http://nuclear.mutantstargoat.com/files/dosdev-pcem.tar.gz


Get the package to work with PCem on Windows

5) Right click the file dosdev-pcem.tar.gz and choose 7-Zip and then Extract to "dosdev-pcem.tar\"

6) Open the dosdev-pcem.tar folder and inside, right-click the file dosdev-pcem.tar 7-Zip and then Extract to "dosdev-pcem"

7) Open the recently extracted dosdev-pcem folder

8) Now the PCemV15Win folder from step 3 should be open and the dosdev-pcem folder from step 7 should be open
Copy the file 
From: dosdev-pcem.tar\dosdev-pcem\dotpcem\configs\pentium_dos.cfg
To: PCemV15Win\configs\pentium_dos.cfg

From: "dosdev-pcem\dotpcem\nvr\pentium_dos.430vx.nvr"
To: "PCemV15Win\nvr\pentium_dos.430vx.nvr"

Copy everything in the roms folder here: dosdev-pcem\dotpcem\roms
To here: PCemV15Win\roms
If something already exists, overwrite it.

Copy the file here: "dosdev-pcem\dotpcem\pentium_dos.img"
To here: PCemV15Win\pentium_dos.img
Remember this location. For this example, we'll pretent it lives here: C:\PCemV15Win\pentium_dos.img

9) Edit the file here: "PCemV15Win\configs\pentium_dos.cfg"
Find the line 25 that says : hdc_fn = <HOME>/.pcem/pentium_dos.img
And replace it with the full path to your file, which could look something like:
hdc_fn = C:\PCemV15Win\pentium_dos.img


Run Borland for C/C++

10) Double-click: PCemV15Win\PCem.exe
pentium_dos should appear. Click the Load button. If everything worked, you'll be up and running.

11) The following commands will get you into borland c++.

bcdev

borlandc\bin\bc

12) Now write a game, have fun.