Prelude76 Posted May 23, 2003 Share Posted May 23, 2003 i have a vast collection of old DOS games. How can I run them in Linux? should i just copy them to a folder and try running them? what about DOS drivers? do I use Wine? basically, is it possible, and if so, how. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted May 23, 2003 Share Posted May 23, 2003 On the face of it, the answer is you will need wine or another emulation program.However, note that although wine has gotten better, it is not perfect and some games will never run on it.I would strongly suggest you go through the wine man files, and documents. You do not want to arbitrarily start changing things without understanding what the changes may do.Some games worked and others I just ended up really frustrated. I personally got tired of trying to get some of my favorites to work on wine and just use Windows and/or DOS to run them. Since many old DOS games talk directly to the video and sound, and allocate memory in old ways, it really makes some of them a REAL challenge.Having said that, maybe some other users may have tried the newer wine and may have had greater success than I have with some of the old DOS games.Generally I go out and see if their is a port for Linux for the games I like before trying to get them to work in Wine. Some have been ported, others will never be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prelude76 Posted May 23, 2003 Author Share Posted May 23, 2003 actually, i googled it and i think "dosemu" and "dosbox" are 2 DOS emulators for linux that handle mouse and EMM drivers beautifully. but dosbox doesnt handle Dos Protected Mode games, and dosemu has 60/40 chance of running in Dos Protected Mode. Anyone use these programs? i'm gonna check them out. I use Suse (want to make it main OS), win98 for DOS games, and WinXP for windows games. if i can run most of my favorite games in SuSE, i can eliminate my win98 partition and hand it over to SuSE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prelude76 Posted May 23, 2003 Author Share Posted May 23, 2003 250th POST!!! hehehe.. sorry, had to throw this post in as filler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted May 23, 2003 Share Posted May 23, 2003 Hi Prelude,I´m no gamer myself so do not know the fine things about this. But I found an article in an old magazine about Amiga emulators they seem to play Amiga games under Linux, also ¨XFellow 0.03¨ ( whatever that is ) ported from DOS. If this is the kind of things you´re looking for I can search the article for links and post them here.Just let me know, and give me some time to read the 5 pages and note down the links. Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prelude76 Posted May 23, 2003 Author Share Posted May 23, 2003 Amiga games? just how old do you think i am? i started in the 386 era. i'm looking to play some DOS games such as Warcraft 1 and 2, and Warlords 1 & 2. maybe some of those old DOS flight sims like Red Baron and Aces over Europe. oh, and Star Control as well. gonna cross my fingers and try some of the DOS emulators. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Posted May 23, 2003 Share Posted May 23, 2003 Amiga games? just how old do you think i am Looks like you missed out all the fun years then :DWell, anyway it should give you hope that, if they even can play those under linux, something recent as Warlords has to be possible as wel !! Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ThunderRiver Posted May 23, 2003 Share Posted May 23, 2003 You can try BOCHS, it is the native FREE DOS emulator, which works the best as DOS anyway hehhttp://bochs.sourceforge.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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