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Re: [News] Running Your Old DOS Programs/Games on Linux

  • Subject: Re: [News] Running Your Old DOS Programs/Games on Linux
  • From: Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:43:31 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • References: <3021431.yRCsZ0xhTd@schestowitz.com>
  • User-agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux)
  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:471542
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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> "DOSBox is a DOS-emulator that uses the SDL-library which makes DOSBox very
> easy to port to different platforms. DOSBox has already been ported to many
> different platforms, such as Windows, BeOS, Linux, MacOS X."
> 
> Windows          0.65   Win32 installer
> Gentoo Linux     0.65   portage
> Source           0.65   Source
> Mac OS X         0.65   dmg (PPC)
> FreeBSD package  0.63   TGZ
> Fedora Core 2 &3 0.63   rpm
> BeOS             0.63   binary (x86)
> OS/2             0.63   port by josch
> 
> http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/download.php?main=1

It is rather good, in fact, although it's not a machine emulator like
DOSEMU is.  You can run CPM86 in DOSEMU, but not in DOSBOX, for example.

Even so, it works really well for those old copies of commander keen,
leisure suit larry, and so on.  

-- 
| Mark Kent   --   mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk  |
To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand
more from her?  You don't want a rose to sing.
		-- Thackeray

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