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Ard Righ Guru
Joined: 24 Jun 2002 Posts: 337 Location: Wellington, NZ
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 8:48 am Post subject: Playing old DOS games in Linux |
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How do,
I am hoping someone here might be able to tell me if it is possible to emulate DOS in a Linux environment, just for playing old DOS classics (X-Wing and TIE Fighter).
They both require EMS memory to run (only 8MB really), and sound blaster support for sound.
Does anyone here know if Linux can emulate DOS with EMS memory for a start ? I know linux has filetype support and all that, but I am curious if anyone can get X-Wing or TIE Figher running under Linux
[edit]I just had a thought, would this maybe work under Wine or WineX ? [/edit] |
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TheMole Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 76 Location: Belgium
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 9:42 am Post subject: |
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http://www.dosemu.org/
dunno if it supports EMS and so forth, and I'm afraid sound emulation isn't quite there yet, but it's worth a try. (And I do believe it's in portage, although I can't be sure, @ work ATM) _________________ "Nevermore" - The Raven |
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nephros Advocate
Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 2139 Location: Graz, Austria (Europe - no kangaroos.)
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 5:29 pm Post subject: why not run them natively? |
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I haven't checked with the games in question, but I have been able to run a bunch of old DOS classics using FreeDOS http://www.freedos.org/.
They offer a livecd, or you can install it on your hd and start tweaking CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT again.
I had it installed on my linux swap partition, as not to repartition my drive just for DOS. To get rid of it again, just mkswap /dev/foo again, and you have your swap back (in the meantime I went with a swap file under linux.)
There is also a MSDOS 6.22 bootdisk at http://www.bootdisk.com/, if you just need basic DOS and a CDROM driver. _________________ Please put [SOLVED] in your topic if you are a moron. |
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Ard Righ Guru
Joined: 24 Jun 2002 Posts: 337 Location: Wellington, NZ
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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Great thanks. I will give DOSEmu a try first, since the docs do mention configuring EMS support. DOS boot disks are the last resort |
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gwydion Apprentice
Joined: 26 Nov 2002 Posts: 151 Location: Michigan, USA
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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might I request/suggest that you post your results? I'd like to run some of my old games for kicks as well (Duke Nukem and King's Quest come to mind) but I don't have time atm to fiddle with it too much. Some pointers on anything you find out would be greatly appreciated. _________________ Linux User #223670 |
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Ard Righ Guru
Joined: 24 Jun 2002 Posts: 337 Location: Wellington, NZ
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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Sure, if I get the games working, I'll post here how I did it |
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gwydion Apprentice
Joined: 26 Nov 2002 Posts: 151 Location: Michigan, USA
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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2003 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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much obliged, danke _________________ Linux User #223670 |
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nephros Advocate
Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 2139 Location: Graz, Austria (Europe - no kangaroos.)
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 6:39 am Post subject: |
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There are also other alternatives using emulation:
For Sierra games, check out these two
For Lucasfilm/Lucasarts games, plus Simon the Sorcerer, look at
EDITED: the original post said sarien had an ebuild. This is wrong, corrected. _________________ Please put [SOLVED] in your topic if you are a moron.
Last edited by nephros on Mon Mar 03, 2003 11:26 am; edited 1 time in total |
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karl420 Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 30 Nov 2002 Posts: 142 Location: Nashville, TN, US
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 11:06 am Post subject: |
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speaking of old classics such as kings quest, etc (thanks nephros), does anyone know of a way to play the old zork's? zork 1 especially, the text only one. lol |
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nephros Advocate
Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 2139 Location: Graz, Austria (Europe - no kangaroos.)
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 11:23 am Post subject: |
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nephros@scourge nephros $ emerge -s frotz
Searching...
[ Results for search key : frotz ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* app-games/frotz
Latest version available: 2.43
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 157 kB
Homepage: http://www.cs.csubak.edu/~dgriffi/proj/frotz/
Description: Curses based interpreter for Z-code based text games
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SpoonMeiser n00b
Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 62
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Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 12:37 am Post subject: |
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There's a masked e-build for dosbox in portage too, it aims to emulate a dos environmet especially for games. It's far from complete at the moment, but it does have some level of sound support, ems, xms etc.
It's worth giving it a go, although I couldn't get the speech in Return to Zork to play (the music worked fine) which was a little disappointing. I think this'll be a vital piece of software for every retro gamer once it's a little more mature. |
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Ard Righ Guru
Joined: 24 Jun 2002 Posts: 337 Location: Wellington, NZ
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Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2003 1:38 am Post subject: |
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Just a note, I have been playing around with programs in Win2K/XP to get old DOS classics to work.
VDMSound is a very good package for doing just this, it's hosted on Sourceforge I believe. It can emulate Sound Blaster sound, and control the memory etc just like you would need. |
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BlastM Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 07 Mar 2003 Posts: 133 Location: Newcastle, Australia. 7487 miles south-west of America.
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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2003 7:01 am Post subject: |
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gwydion wrote: | I'd like to run some of my old games for kicks as well (Duke Nukem and King's Quest come to mind) but I don't have time atm to fiddle with it too much. |
I'm not sure about King's Quest, but there is a Duke Nukem I remake called Dave Gnukem.
It's GPL'd and the website is http://www.scorpioncity.com/djgame.html
I've used DOSbox before, and must say, it's really easy. You type "dosbox" to bring up the dosbox command line, and type "mount /mnt/dos c:" and DOS programs can be invoked just by typing their names. Wolfenstein 3D and Jill of the Jungle work under it, but Doom and Ken's Labyrinth don't.
Speaking of which, there is a port of Ken's Labyrinth to Linux at http://icculus.org/LAB3D
And while it isn't a DOS port, I highly reccomend Orbital Eunuchs Sniper at http://icculus.org/oes for some retro overhead shooting action. |
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gwydion Apprentice
Joined: 26 Nov 2002 Posts: 151 Location: Michigan, USA
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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2003 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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I probably should've been more specific when I mentioned duke nukem - I actually never got into the first/original one too much. I started out on duke 3d as far as "first person shooters" go. Looks like this thread took off - I can't wait to get home and try some of these programs out _________________ Linux User #223670 |
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ReKleSS n00b
Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 17
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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2003 7:00 am Post subject: |
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Back to Zork 1,2,3, the undiscovered underground, zero, and whatever else (text mode), you need a Z-machine emulator. I can't recall any ATM, but look for the Interactive Fiction Archive. Look around, they're not that hard to find.
-ReK |
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Swishy Guru
Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 491 Location: NZ
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 8:03 pm Post subject: Re: Playing old DOS games in Linux |
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Ard Righ wrote: | How do,
I am hoping someone here might be able to tell me if it is possible to emulate DOS in a Linux environment, just for playing old DOS classics (X-Wing and TIE Fighter).
They both require EMS memory to run (only 8MB really), and sound blaster support for sound.
Does anyone here know if Linux can emulate DOS with EMS memory for a start ? I know linux has filetype support and all that, but I am curious if anyone can get X-Wing or TIE Figher running under Linux
[edit]I just had a thought, would this maybe work under Wine or WineX ? [/edit] |
could also try Xdosemu (its in portgage ) Ive had a bit of success with does games running under this
Cheers
Dale. _________________ Theres no substitute for C.I. |
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relyt Apprentice
Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Posts: 238 Location: Massachusetts
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2003 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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karl420 wrote: | speaking of old classics such as kings quest, etc (thanks nephros), does anyone know of a way to play the old zork's? zork 1 especially, the text only one. lol |
I seem to remember Slackware 2.3 actually coming with "dungeon", which was the original game that was broken up into Zork I, II, and III. That's most likely still out there.
Edit: found it-> Dungeon
Edit: or, better yet Dungeon. |
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