Comments on: DosBox 0.61

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Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:23:43 +0000

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Sun, 25 Apr 2004 18:44:31 +0000

I don’t know what is more sad, that Linux gets games by emulating DOS, or that Linux has better DOS than WinXP. I am off to play Star Control!

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Sun, 25 Apr 2004 17:16:43 +0000

This program is awesome. I can play Lemmings again. Well, I _could_ play it with DOSEmu, but it ran more choppy than one of those knife infomercial chefs chopping onions. Now it runs very smooth and much more resonable.

By: zborgerd

zborgerd — Sat, 24 Apr 2004 18:47:05 +0000

In my experience, it worked surprisingly well when I tried to play Master of Magic a few weeks ago. I wonder if King’s Quest V works pretty well?

By: TheGreenKnight

TheGreenKnight — Sat, 24 Apr 2004 16:39:46 +0000

I tried this after DOSEmu and I have an old Digital Integration/Arcana game called Rotor working with it (and joystick too) and my old favourite Microprose’s M1 Tank Platoon and Gunship 2000 :D Ok you need a beefy computer to play them on but everything works. Apparently Panzer/Fantasy General work too :)

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Sat, 24 Apr 2004 08:30:35 +0000

“Is somewhere to find a howto to use it nice in Linux, can’t find it.”

It’s pretty straight forward. DL the source, un-pack it. Do the usual .configure && make && make install.

Once installed you run it like this:

dosbox /path/to/game/you/want/to/run.exe

There is also a dosbox.conf file that you can use to set certain paramaters, but the default set-up works for most games. :)

http://www.the-underdogs.org/ is a good pace to find abandonware DOS games, if anyone is interested. They have quite a list of titles.

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Sat, 24 Apr 2004 04:51:37 +0000

Star Wars : Dark Forces Wooooorks :-)

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Sat, 24 Apr 2004 04:13:52 +0000

Is somewhere to find a howto to use it nice in Linux, can’t find it.

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Sat, 24 Apr 2004 03:13:40 +0000

Dosbox .61 was released on February 3rd so its been around for a little while. It is, however, quite awesome. I have about 135 DOS games on my Linux box right now, and that number should increase soon because the next version of Dosbox looks like it’ll be able to support Windows 3.1. I’m digging up my copy of Mordor soon.