DOSBOX OPTIONS HOW TO
DOSBOX OPTIONS INSTALL

The first step is to mount the location of your DOS goodies. If you don’t, it’s still pretty simple, so long as you have a good grasp of file systems. If you have some familiarity with DOS from times past, this will be pretty simple.

DOSBOX OPTIONS HOW TO

I highly recommend reading through the Intro to familiarize yourself with how to use DOSBox. When you run this, you will be presented a familiar DOS prompt from days past. Just a quick search in your menu and you will see “DOSBox-Staging” available. It looks like the last commit on DOSBox was in June of 2019.ĭOSBox isn’t a large application and is ready to be use in short order. It’s not a rewrite, but a continuation and improvement on the existing DOSBox codebase.

DOSBOX OPTIONS INSTALL

sudo zypper install dosboxĪs an important note, in openSUSE Tumbleweed, the installation of DOSBox installs DOSBox Staging which, according to the project page this is an attempt to revitalize DOSBox’s development process. I can’t speak for any distributions outside of openSUSE, but I imagine it is pretty similar. The installation should be straight forward in most distributions. Multiple stops at various sites with various issues told me it was time to take notes and make a little blathering about it. Hard to find solid information regarding Linux so I did a bit of digging. As I was playing with DOSBox, I couldn’t help but think how much I was enjoying the experience and started thinking, “Can I easily integrate these games in my openSUSE Tumbleweed, Plasma Desktop experience?” The Basics I got the “hankering” to play some old DOS games, specifically Oregon Trail and Sim Ant for some unknown reason, perhaps it was head injury induced, I can’t say for sure. Games like Descent and Doom have been ported to Linux so there is no benefit in running the DOS version. That said, I do have many happy memories of playing DOS based games like Space Quest, Police Quest, Simant and many others. I much preferred Commodore 64 because it was far more colorful, later the Amiga, because it was far better in sound and graphics and I got my first x86 based system in the Windows 98 years where I only used DOS to do gaming. I was never really into DOS all that much in my early computer years. DOSBox is an excellent DOS environment that you can enjoy on modern Linux systems.

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