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Old 02-19-2008, 12:10 PM
James Michael Fultz
 
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Default Re: [OT] Old man playing games.

* Stanislaw Flatto <compaid@shoalhaven.net.au>:
> Warning: Unrelated to Slackware! O:-) Being forced by my better half
> to make "some" order in accumulated junk I stumbled on collection of
> ~200 diskettes from my DOS days. Backups of course! Started the
> emotional journey and found some old games that I would like to try
> again. OK, downloaded dosemu+freedos to run under Slack, it does, so
> far everything is good. But I simple cannot CD to the directories of
> my Win98 install, properly mounted on Linux tree, to enjoy it. And I
> don't "want" to dual boot for such simple things, that is NOT "my
> Linux way".
> HHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLPPP PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!

You may want to try DOSBox:
<http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1>

DOSBox is a PC emulator with builtin DOS.

I've tried it, compiled and installed without any problems. VGA
graphics and sound work. Never crashed or locked up. However, I didn't
find the few games I'd tried running to be very playable at the speed
they would run. Perhaps you'll have better luck with it.

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