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Dosemu v1.0 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the have-fun dept.

Several people have noted that Dosemu has version 1.0 on their ftp servers. The comment that most people had was to test whether it could run Duke Nukem 3D *grin*.

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  1. Cool by Zico · · Score: 5

    Nothing like using a rehash of a 30-year old OS to emulate a 20-year old OS.

    Linux Community, thy name is creativity. Hats off to ya.

    Cheers,
    ZicoKnows@hotmail.com

  2. Dosemu is a time machine by Uruk · · Score: 5

    Aaah, it takes me back to the time when I was about 14 years old, I had gotten my first computer, (it was a 486SX2 with 4MB) and I was using DOS as it was a REAL operating system. Sure, those other quiche eating wimps may use Windows 3.1, but I'm a real man (at 14, yeah right) who uses a REAL system. A CLI.

    I remember playing Doom, Doom ][, (always done with the backwards brackets) using some obscure phone program to dial my favorite BBS (it was called "Cyberia" -- how lame is that :)

    I remember ridiculing edlin. I didn't think that it was possible to have an editor that was worse than edlin. Surely, edlin was the most pathetic program ever written. (Well, it wasn't, but I thought it was at the time. In all actuality, the most pathetic programs ever written were my early attempts at QBASIC)

    And then all of the tricks shared with friends, like putting high-ascii characters in filenames so they couldn't be deleted by conventional means, (because you couldn't type the filename) and looking at virus source code trying to figure out what the hell "mov" and "cmp" stood for.

    My progression went from Dos->windows->linux. It reminds me of a Pearl Jam song ("I'm Open") -- "Illusion was traded for Reality...no tradebacks. So this is what it's like to be an adult".

    Dosemu is a total time machine for me. I use it every now and then to go back to my "roots" of computing. It's a personal thing, and probably isn't interesting to many people, but it's a holy shitload of fun for me. :-)

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  3. Unfortunately... by jd · · Score: 5
    All these modern P3's, with Linux, run FAR too fast to play many of the older DOS games. Wing Commander II was bad enough on a 486dx-33, -without- the Turbo button.

    However, I have a solution to this problem. Simply run the user-land version of Linux under Linux. Then, run the Archimedes version of Linux under the xarch emulator under the user-land Linux. Then, run an xterm over to the original Linux layer, in which you run dosemu.

    You will now have a computer that will run at the "classic" 8086 speed, so that you can play all of your favourite games, without seeing just a horrible blur.

    (It'll also allow you to extensively test all these emulators for bugs, whilst you're at it. :)

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    1. Re:Unfortunately... by gleam · · Score: 5

      Why not just download Mo'Slo?

      It's described on its homepage as a set of "CPU Slowdown Utilities".

      It's crippleware, but the only thing the cripple keeps you from doing is slowing down in fractional increments. A friend of mine uses moslo extensively on his win box, unregistered, and it works fine.

      I would bet it works under dosemu as well.

      They actually have two copies, Mo'Slo Deluxe, and Mo'Slo BIZ. It even has in-program speed adjustment.

      Really. Check it out.

      -ed fisher

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