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WineX (& DOSEMU and everything in between)
lazygamer:
Hmmm I see. Well here is what I want. I want to be able to run Dos GAMES with a good compatibility rate and all the goodies IE:no quirks, full sound. I want to do this from Linux directly, no reboots. I want something that has superior compatibility with Dos games to Windows XP, and at least even compatibility with Windows 95, possibly even exceeding it.
Can I get this? Or am I pipedreaming? :D
Speed is meaningless, my system would has so much power(for dos), that even in an emulated enviroment, some of those old games would STILL need a slowdown program!
Calum:
i don't know how realistic that is.
i will soon be trying out dosemu though, nd will post here. why don't you do the same?
i don't know if i will be able to answer yr sound q though, as i have a sis7018 snd card, you likely have a more soundblastery one...
voidmain:
Not all of WineX is proprietary (closed source that is). You can download the CVS source for free. I did and installed StarCraft using WineX and it plays perfectly. But I don't particularly like the concept of Wine and WineX. I would rather have application/game vendors put out native Linux ports. Having wine gives them less incentive to port. On the other hand it gives you a way to run some of the apps written for MS OSs until there is a port, or for those that have no plans of porting.
[ November 20, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
Crunchy(Cracked)Butter:
Why can't another games company (like did Loki) just start up again and say "Hello, we do linux ports of windows games"!
Calum:
lazy: just donloaded dosemu (and dosemu-freedos) it is very very easy to install and run, and very satisfactory in many ways however it doesn't properly emulate DOS. It's free and is a small download though, and will enable you to DOS without rebooting for no money, so it is well worth your download. you need to get dosemu-xxxxx.tgz and you need to also get dosemu-freedos-bin.tgz, put them in the same directory as each other and do 'tar -xvzf name' for each one. then cd into the directory called 'dosemu' and type './dosemu -home' and you will find a working DOS which can access the A: drive, and your linux home directory will be on drive D:
Enjoy! i couldn't get my sound working of course, but i can't in DOS anyway...
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