Wild Wizard wrote:

>Stanislaw Flatto wrote:
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>>Hi oldies!
>>Few days ago I posted that I would like to play DOS games through Linux
>>and got series of responses.
>>Listened to ALL of them, installed "dosbox" and "dosemu+freedos" and
>>went to play.
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>Guess what I did the same but only dosbox
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No better performance from the other one.

>Disaster, the "shoot them up" games are so slow that you can sign the
>bullet as it moves toward target across the screen.
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>Well I succeeded with my games, I played MoO until about 2 in the morning
>now thats what I call wasting time
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That what I meant, once you get in a game time flies by, so the reboot
into another OS is no issue.

>Tried wolf3d and Doom1 as they use poor, by todays standards, graphics.
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>You can get doom for linux OpenGL and all :-)
>http://legacy.newdoom.com/
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Tried it sometime in the past, not the same taste.

>So admitting defeat I rebooted into DOS 7 (Windows 98SE) and world
>became normal again.
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>Some of us don't have that luxury XP runs the MS side of my computer old 98
>was too unreliable for any serious work or play
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Sorry that I cannot send on this ng a picture of ~30cm hanging tree
with WinXP CD on it.
It addorns my table as 98 does those things that I need it for.
(You should see the XP fanatics change colors seeing this =-O

Have fun

Stanislaw
Slack user from Ulladulla.