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slackthumbz
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 Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:45 am Post subject: DosBox or DosEmu? |
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| I've been having trouble emerging dosbox (my whole system locks up and crashes) so I was considering giving DosEmu a try, and can anyone point me to a site where I can get old dos games legally either free or purchased... |
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dhris
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:48 am Post subject: |
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It is strange that your system locks up. Did you try compiling it yourself? Anyway, here's where you can get a whack of games. Not all are free, but just about everything pre-1992 is free:
http://www.abandonia.com/index2.php |
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slackthumbz
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:52 am Post subject: |
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| Cheers for the link, no I didn't try to compile it myself I used and about 10 mins later my system locked up and X crashed. I've submitted a report to bugzilla, I wouldn't expect this to happen unless you're on a PPC machine (I've never had any problems emerging dosbox on x86) and I've just found that I can't emerge dosemu because it's masked with '-*'... I guess I'm a bit screwed then as far as dos games go.... |
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Jengu
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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| slackthumbz wrote: | | Cheers for the link, no I didn't try to compile it myself I used and about 10 mins later my system locked up and X crashed. I've submitted a report to bugzilla, I wouldn't expect this to happen unless you're on a PPC machine (I've never had any problems emerging dosbox on x86) and I've just found that I can't emerge dosemu because it's masked with '-*'... I guess I'm a bit screwed then as far as dos games go.... |
I'd try again. There's nothing specific about emerging dosbox that shouldn't be caused by emerging anything else that takes 10 minutes to compile. Could've been a totally unrelated crash. Post your:
Just in case. |
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johntramp
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:55 am Post subject: |
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| from what I understand dosemu is aimed more at gaming than dosbox. |
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slackthumbz
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 8:28 am Post subject: |
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Here's my emerge info
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Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/ppc/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1,
2.6.10-gentoo-r6 ppc)
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System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 ppc 740/750
Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Apr 4 2005, 11:33:0 ]
dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.90.0.3-r4
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.14
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r4
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=G3 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe"
CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=G3 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/
ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac aalib alsa apm audiofile berkdb bitmap-fonts bzlib cdparanoia
cups curl dga dio directfb dvd emboss encode esd fbcon ffmpeg fftw flac fortran
ftp ggi gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg ladcca mad matroska mikmod mime mp3 mpeg
mysql ncurses nls offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre perl png ppc python
readline sdl sndfile sox ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts
unicode usb vcd videos vorbis xine xml2 xprint xv xvid zlib"
Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
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And I've tried a few times to emerge dosbox, it just keeps locking up my system an crashing everything whenever I do  |
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ssokolow
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 6:25 am Post subject: |
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| johntramp wrote: | | from what I understand dosemu is aimed more at gaming than dosbox. |
Actually, it's the opposite. dosemu is slightly more integrated with Linux and uses a copy of FreeDos. DosBox uses it's own fake version of DOS, is completely separate from Linux except for allowing direct mounting of Linux directories as virtual drives. DosBox is more likely to support a game than DosEmu. DosEmu is more for stuff like QBasic. |
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dhris
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| Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Also, once you get DosBox going, there is a great KDE front-end for it called DosBoxFE that allows you to easily tweak the config files for individual games. Can't find the download link at the moment but I'm sure it's easy to get. |
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johntramp
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| Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 4:39 am Post subject: |
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| ssokolow wrote: | | johntramp wrote: | | from what I understand dosemu is aimed more at gaming than dosbox. |
Actually, it's the opposite. dosemu is slightly more integrated with Linux and uses a copy of FreeDos. DosBox uses it's own fake version of DOS, is completely separate from Linux except for allowing direct mounting of Linux directories as virtual drives. DosBox is more likely to support a game than DosEmu. DosEmu is more for stuff like QBasic. |
yes, you are right. I got them round the wrong way  |
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