DOS Emulation Under Linux - a Simple Guide

Duke Nukem 3D by DigiShaman · 2004-01-09 22:53 · Score: 5, Funny

Will it play Duke Nukem 3D....forever?

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Re:Duke Nukem 3D by n3k5 · 2004-01-09 23:08 · Score: 5, Interesting

*i* couldn't get dn3d to run on dosemu+freedos, but it may be possible, particularly if you use, say, MSDOS 6.2 instead of freedos.
DOSBox claims to run Duke Nukem 3D.

By the way, does anyone know if there is a free program like DOSEMU/DOSBox for MacOS?

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Re:Duke Nukem 3D by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-09 23:12 · Score: 4, Interesting

Check out bochs.
Re:Duke Nukem 3D by slux · 2004-01-09 23:39 · Score: 5, Informative

I suggest you try Icculus' Duke Nukem 3D GNU/Linux port if you want to play it rather than fiddling with dosemu or dosbox (which will surely be too slow as it emulates the entire cpu).
The same goes for all the games mentioned in the guide - Quake, Wolf3D, Doom all have versions that can be run natively on GNU/Linux and some are also greatly enhanced. Schorched Earth's original version isn't but several remakes are. The Linux Game Tome is a good starting place if you wish to obtain these.
It's interesting how it might be easier to run legacy Dos apps in GNU/Linux than in Windows (XP) these days. My friend's been dreaming of running a certain old dos game on his WinXP system, but all he has is Dosbox which doesn't run it and even if it did, it would be unplayably slow.
Re:Duke Nukem 3D by Joseph+Lam · 2004-01-09 23:52 · Score: 5, Funny

Ok,
It doesn't run Duke Nukem 3D Forever.
It does run Duke Nukem 3D however.
It can run Duke Nukem 3D forever.
It won't run Duke Nukem 3D smooth or fast or whatever

And if DOSemu doesn't work for some reason . . . by Selanit · 2004-01-09 22:56 · Score: 5, Informative

. . . you can also try DOSbox, which is a virtual DOS machine.

Keen!! by Cyclopedian · 2004-01-09 22:57 · Score: 4, Interesting

Bah, if I'm going to emulate DOS on linux, I'd rather play Commander Keen. =P

-Cyc

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Re:Keen!! by croddy · 2004-01-09 22:58 · Score: 4, Informative

runs surprisingly well, as does duke nukem 2 :-)

Quake?? Doom?? by j-pimp · 2004-01-09 23:00 · Score: 3, Informative

Perhaps he's not aware of the many open source ports of these two for linux with improved EVERYTHING. I reccomend the freedoom wad replacement and legacydoom.

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Re:Quake?? Doom?? by kryptkpr · 2004-01-10 03:26 · Score: 2, Informative

"But I am le tired!
so go take a nap.. THEN LAUNCH THE MISSILES!"

here's a link to the swf referred to, for those of you who don't have friends that compulsively forward everything funny they come across..

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Oh joy... by graveyardduckx · 2004-01-09 23:01 · Score: 2, Funny

CLI emulating CLI. Seems redundant.... or even repetitive.

Oh no by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-09 23:01 · Score: 5, Funny

I see a new era of DOS-resident viruses comming up.

Re:Oh no by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-09 23:22 · Score: 2, Interesting

That's not as much of a joke as you think. I have dos 6.22 disks I just used a few months ago to install a dos box. I hadn't touched the disks in years, but they have a couple of old viruses on them. I even managed to infect my win2k machine.
Re:Oh no by scotch · 2004-01-10 04:31 · Score: 2, Funny

The moderators. They're alwasy right, afterall

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Now if only Windows could do the same thing, right by aardwolf204 · 2004-01-09 23:03 · Score: 4, Funny

Now if only we could get Windows to emulate DOS correctly, maybe then we could Play Duke3d in XP.

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Industrial Programs? by Linus+Sixpack · 2004-01-09 23:04 · Score: 5, Insightful

Has anyone made emulation work with Parallel port Dongles and Hasps? It seems that most of the emulators target dos games -- will they translate com and printer port calls ?

Some programs that "just work" are really a pain to change. I support a few of these that run on dos and I don't think there is a will to port them or replace them.

At this point Linux is much better maintained than dos and it would be a better fit if the programs ran perfectly? I know I'd like to dump dos.

LS

Re:Industrial Programs? by krymsin01 · 2004-01-09 23:10 · Score: 3, Informative

Dosemu does do com and lpt interfacing, and as for the dongles, I'd assume that that would be handled by your software.

Then again, I could be wrong... I need sleep.

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Re:Industrial Programs? by Krunch · 2004-01-09 23:38 · Score: 3, Informative

Something like User Mode Linux ?

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Re:And if DOSemu doesn't work for some reason . . by Joel+Carr · 2004-01-09 23:05 · Score: 2, Interesting

DOSBox has the advantage that it can be run on more platforms than just Linux. It can even run on Windows if need be. I've personally found DOSEMU to be more usable speed wise in the past, however I've had less compatibility problems running dos programs in DOSBox than I have using DOSEMU + FreeDOS

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Or do it the easy way. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-09 23:05 · Score: 5, Informative

In real Linux distributions, click K (or G) > Configuration > Packaging > Install software

Enter root password
search for dos.
Tick the dosbox box. Click install.

All the depencancies are automagically resolved and your done in 10 seconds.

Then click
K > Applications > Emulators > Dosbox

Then volia, the c prompt is here haunt you.

Silly geeks, why do you make your life so hard when it can be so easy now days.

Re:Or do it the easy way. by sholden · 2004-01-09 23:11 · Score: 4, Informative

Or even just:

# apt-get install dosemu
Re:Or do it the easy way. by upside · 2004-01-09 23:34 · Score: 5, Informative

Because we geeks know the commandline is quicker. In Mandrake:

urpmi dosbox

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Re:Or do it the easy way. by sholden · 2004-01-10 00:13 · Score: 2, Insightful

Who said grandma should be able to install Debian?

Grandma can use Redhat/Mandrake/Knoppix/whatever.

And my USB mouse worked by plugging it in, for what it's worth...
Re:Or do it the easy way. by mcbridematt · 2004-01-10 01:23 · Score: 2, Informative

AFAIK aarnet mirror isn't accessible outside Australia and maybe New Zealand.
Re:Or do it the easy way. by Bios_Hakr · 2004-01-10 02:11 · Score: 3, Funny

Real men prefer:

tar -zxvf dosbox.tar.gz
cd dosbox ./configure
Spend 30 minutes to resolve dependencies.
make
sudo make install
Spend 30 more minutes resolving a segfault.
Rebuild glibc with debugging support.
Rebuild dosbox.
This time it works with no segfault, but 50 other apps just broke because you rebuilt glibc.

You know, real men suck. Maybe it's time I try out one of these new-fangaled distribution thingies...

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what's the big deal? by ultrapenguin · 2004-01-09 23:11 · Score: 5, Insightful

Am I the only one who finds the articly higly lacking any useful info?

Sure, I haven't touched DOSEMU since about 1998 but back then I remember all sorts of problems.

Even now, the article mentions nothing about setting up sound, midi playback, etc, is this all handled automatically by dosemu installer (doubt it).

This guide seems to be written by someone who just found DOSEMU yesterday and didn't know anyone used it for years before.

I mean there's even DOSEMU-HOWTO written which is the official linux dosemu howto, what's wrong with that one? It seems to be even kept up-to-date (as popular dos is these days, anyhow).

And most of the games he mentions on the site have way better native linux ports...

Re:WP 5.1!!! by krymsin01 · 2004-01-09 23:12 · Score: 3, Funny

edlin owns them all.

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PCEmu by kasperd · 2004-01-09 23:14 · Score: 2, Interesting

Actually I have written my own PC emulator, but it is far from as usable as DOSemu. I wanted to test a way to do the emulation with only 16 bytes used for ROM. As long as it was fun I kept coding. But eventually I ran into some problems. If I actually wanted to use all the available 255KB of UMB the kernel would Oops when the stack was on the same page as my ROM. I fixed the kernel bugs together with Manfred Spraul and Stas Sergeev. But I never got back to coding on my emulator.

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Re:PCEmu by kasperd · 2004-01-10 00:13 · Score: 5, Interesting

I'm curious to know what are those 16 bytes in the ROM...must have been highly optimized :)

The trick is, that when writing an emulator, you don't need to write a BIOS in 16 bit code. Instead a BIOS implementation is written in 32 bit code, that can execute outside the precious low end address space. Then I just need enough entry points from 16 bit code to 32 bit code. An entry points requires an instruction that will trap from virtual 86 mode to 32 bit user mode. I decided to use the HLT instruction which is only one byte. Because of the segment:offset addressing there are 4096 different ways to address this single byte, that means I have 4096 entry points which is a lot more than I need. The entry point for reboot is sometimes accessed through at least two different addressings, so I avoided to place my HLT instruction there and instead placed the conventional five bytes long far jump instruction there, which jumps to one of my entry points. After this five bytes instruction are eight bytes reserved for the BIOS date written as month / date / year. The last three bytes are three single byte instructions HLT IRET RETF. The HLT and IRET are actually used, the RETF I just placed there because it might come in handy. Because of the DOS memory management and the reboot entry point, there is no way to make the ROM smaller than 16 bytes.

To actually protect the ROM against writing I mark the entire page read only, though it is only the last 16 bytes I really need to protect. This means any write to the first 4050 bytes of this page will trap, those are the traps that I needed to fix in the kernel because they would Oops if triggered by a stack access by an instruction emulated in the kernel. All those traps of course slows down execution, so I might want to sacrifice the last 4050 bytes for a bit of performance. I'm still looking for an efficient way to access the last bytes. If I could put an upper limit to the address accessed by virtual 86 mode, I could switch between a limit just below the ROM and a write protected page, which I belive would speed up execution. Together with my emulator I have put a GPL'ed UMM driver that works with my emulator, quite conveniently this driver does not support the last 4050 bytes of UMB that have been causing problems anyway. EMM386 doesn't work with my emulator, and never will because of braindead Intel design.

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Re:PCEmu by pe1chl · 2004-01-10 00:22 · Score: 2, Interesting

It is a nice idea.
In fact, dosemu already had some interesting possibilities for saving memory. I wrote the network driver for dosemu, it emulates a "PC/TCP packet driver". In a normal DOS system, that driver would be loaded in high memory, but in dosemu there was only a small block of code residing in the BIOS area (required because of the interface definition for packet drivers), and the actual driver code is 32bit.
So, dosemu can be considered to have "PC/TCP packet driver support in the BIOS", and no memory has to be wasted on loading a driver :-)

DOSemu by DarkHelmet · 2004-01-09 23:17 · Score: 4, Funny

Thinking about DOSemu and DOSbox remind me of an old article in Wired about the Turbo Switch on computers.

"Having a turbo switch on your computer is kind of like saying 'I have this really cool ferrari that when I press a button it turns into a pinto'".

I downloaded Dosbox and played some of the old classics at a sluggish pace... They say that an XP 1800 with DosBox is the equivalent of a 386SX-25.

"Look ma! I have this cool little program that makes my Athlon 64 3200 into a 386SX-40! Isn't that swell?"

The sad thing is... I don't think I've ever been so happy about finding a program online.

I suck.

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Re:DOSemu by salesgeek · 2004-01-10 03:47 · Score: 2, Informative

Thinking about DOSemu and DOSbox remind me of an old article in Wired about the Turbo Switch on computers.

Actually, there were a large number of DOS applications that were coded in assembly for a 4.77Mhz PC. Faster computer would make these programs not work - and some were actual business applications and programs that interfaced with hardware that were written this way. The idea that PC archetecture would be around for 20+ years did not even cross the programmer's mind back then! Originally the purpose of the turbo button was to slow your blazing fast 10Mhz 8088 based PCXT clone to 4.77Mhz so you could software written for the stock IBM PC.

By the time the 386sx came out, the turbo button had lost it's function and the pinto analogy was appropriate. It was a great way to slow down games, though!

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Best option... by Markos · 2004-01-09 23:19 · Score: 4, Insightful

The best option is to really just put together an old gaming box. Old hardware that will run dos like a dream is avaiable everywhere. Seems to be the best option instead of messing around with various emulators trying to get them to work with game xy and z.

Re:Now if only Windows could do the same thing, ri by Phexro · 2004-01-09 23:19 · Score: 4, Funny

Or you could just wait. See, the delay with Duke Nukem Forever is that they've hidden the entire series of old Duke games in it as an easter egg, and they want them to work just right in Windows 95^H8^UMe^U2k^UXP.

Re:And if DOSemu doesn't work for some reason . . by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-09 23:20 · Score: 5, Informative

DOSBox will also run on non-x86 machines. Got MacOSX or LinuxPPC? Works.

Why this news? by po8 · 2004-01-09 23:21 · Score: 5, Insightful

OK, I'm not getting why this article made the front page. The "tutorial" seems to consist of saying "download the software and install it", which shouldn't be too hard to figure out on one's own. The bulk of the tutorial content is pointers to four standard DOS games.

BTW, on Debian, the installation is "apt-get install dosemu-freedos". I was about to gloat about how easy that is, but it looks pretty darn easy under Slackware also. :-)

Scorched Earth by ngtni · 2004-01-09 23:26 · Score: 2, Interesting

Probably the best reason to run a DOS emulator is so you can play Scorched Earth (the mother of all games).

The author of the guide says he used to play Scorched in his Sixth Form, and the network admin would join in too... exactly like in my school! This game must have been more popular than I first thought. If you've never played it, you really should...

Re:Isn't this just ... by ottawanker · 2004-01-09 23:40 · Score: 5, Funny

You only waited 3 hours? You got it lucky, I've been waiting 10 years for a guide on how to use DOSEMU.

Re:And if DOSemu doesn't work for some reason . . by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-09 23:43 · Score: 2, Informative

http://www.holwegner.com/software/ has a MacOS X binary of DOSBox.

DOSEMU / FreeDOS useful for embedded support by barries · 2004-01-09 23:48 · Score: 5, Informative

There's still a dusty corner of systems design and programming that takes place on DOS: some embedded programming tools (compilers, flash burners, in circuit emulator debuggers) for some chips still work "best" on DOS.

Only now, we can use DOSEMU to run them under Linux and get the benefit of real development environment when supporting legacy apps. We can open a bash shell and use Perl, gnu make, emacs/vim, etc to drive development, then have a DOSemu / FreeDOS window to drive download and debug.

It can be quite difficult automating the Windows versions of these tools to that same level. Most of our projects use Windowes tool (running in VMware on Linux), but we did one two years ago hosted on DOSEMU and using Bytecraft's (now) excellent compiler for the PIC chips.

Best of both worlds, and many, many thanks to all the hackers that made it work so well.

- Barrie

It's a bit ironic... by DarkDust · 2004-01-10 00:11 · Score: 3, Informative

I'm still playing DOS games from time to time, like Dune 2. Now the ironic part is that I can't get the sound to work in DOS directly (laptop with an SiS chip, no DOS usable driver avaible) neither does the sound work under Windows ME... but it works without problems in Linux using DOSEmu since it emulates an SoundBlaster 16 and a General MIDI card :-)

DOSBox and Mac OS X. by Xenex · 2004-01-10 00:25 · Score: 4, Informative

"By the way, does anyone know if there is a free program like DOSEMU/DOSBox for MacOS?"

There is a DOSBox package in Fink.

A lame question, but... by Trurl's+Machine · 2004-01-10 00:39 · Score: 2, Interesting

...can it be compiled for MacOS X or Linux/PPC - or is it somehow dependent on physical x86?

Re:A lame question, but... by slim · 2004-01-10 00:52 · Score: 2, Informative

DOSEmu relies on a real x86 processor.

You could instead use Bochs to emulate an x86.

Re:Isn't this just ... by InternationalCow · 2004-01-10 00:43 · Score: 3, Funny

I agree - but perhaps it is a good sign that there are now Linux users who need this kind of hand holding :) I remember that, in the old days (eg, a year ago or so) one was supposed to RTFM and figure it out. Not any more?

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Re:It's a bit ironic... - Try VDMsound by Artega+VH · 2004-01-10 00:53 · Score: 5, Informative

May I suggest vdmsound Allowed me to play Dune 2 no problems under windows 2k. Bonus points for it being open source and gpl'ed eh?

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Re:Now if only Windows could do the same thing, ri by Pete · 2004-01-10 00:59 · Score: 2, Informative

I thought it rather amusing that all the classic old DOS games that the guy mentioned are in fact available as source ports for Linux (and probably most other OSs).

But in case you didn't know, you can get a very damn cool version of Scorched Earth in 3d here: http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/ (Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, source, etc.)

I played it with a bunch of friends at a LAN party recently, several of whom had played the DOS Scorched Earth before (I hadn't). Fan-fucking-tastic game. 'Twas a very satisfying moment when I was the first to discover that you could buy mini-nukes as weapons... *evil grin*

Guy who had just been hit with the nuke (along with everyone else who just heard the explosion): "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT???!?!??!"

Pete. :-)

Re:Abandomware by TwistedSquare · 2004-01-10 01:06 · Score: 5, Informative

IIRC, Apogee sell all their old games online on their website www.3drealms.com -quick check- Yep, if you go here: http://store.yahoo.com/3drealms/dowit.html you can find classics such as Duke Nukem (1&2), Commander Keen (various episodes), and lesser known games such as the "cute" Cosmo, Crystal Caves, etc. Those were the days!

Maybe I can put that stack of floppies to use by louzerr · 2004-01-10 01:22 · Score: 2, Interesting

Haven't tried this yet - freedos is still in the process of compiling on my machine - but what the heck, I'll give it a shot.

Right now, I've got a huge box full of old floppies for Dune, ChessMaster, Wolfenstein, and a bunch of other old games that I spent way too much money on, considering all they can do now is collect dust.

Now if they only had an emulator for the Win95 games that no longer work in 2000/XP... Somebody aught to support these commercial products that no longer have an OS to run on!

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Gentoo users: by Trejkaz · 2004-01-10 01:32 · Score: 4, Informative

Who needs a tutorial? Just type emerge dosemu.

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From one WP-5.1 user to another by Anna+Merikin · 2004-01-10 02:10 · Score: 3, Informative

Wp5.1 for DOS was, like all other WP DOS versions, was written in assembly language for "fast keyboard response" according to WP Corp. way back when.

I still use it on DOSemu (easy, start it with -c -k and all the function keys work as expected.)

Re:WP 5.1!!! by njdj · 2004-01-10 02:23 · Score: 2, Informative

Besides that, there were severe graphics issues, you had to have them in the arcane .wpg format.

Actually .wpg is a well-documented format.

About 14 years ago I remember writing a library for outputting charts in .wpg format. It wasn't too difficult because the docs were quite good. This was for vector graphics, though, which probably isn't what you want. There are free (as in beer) Windows programs which convert other formats to wpg; a quick Google turned up Paint Shop Pro, there must be others. On Linux there is ImageMagick which is also downloadable at no charge.

Possible to get full VESA or 'x' video card? by tzanger · 2004-01-10 02:31 · Score: 2, Interesting

The reason I ask is for the old venerable OrCAD 386 SDT and PCB programs... 800x600 just doesn't cut it, and that old program is still way ahead of what they've put out today in terms of ease of use, functionality and keyboard support.

I know about Eagle's cross-platform abilities and all the other win32-only ones but to be honest, none of them seem to have that right mix of keyboard use, navigation and plain old workability. I'm rapidly running out of systems that OrCAD 386 will run on. :-(

I am greatly saddened... by tiger99 · 2004-01-10 02:57 · Score: 3, Insightful

Why? Because I gave away lots of my old but good DOS programs, complete with licence of course, years ago. It would be nice to run almost bug-free, stable things like Word Perfect 5.2 again. (I did find one bug in that actually, but it was not too serious and did not cause data loss). Then there was a magazine cover disk with 50 free utilities, about 20 of which were actually useful and worked, and got used every day, and all the old C programs I wrote, which would compile and run on both DOS and Unix, but not for some reason, Windoze, even in a command window.

It would be nice to run non-bloated code again. I used to be amazed at the speed of spell-checking in WP 5.2 on a 286, it would most probably still beat Word 2000 on my Athlon 2.6GHz. Life was much less troublesome then, before truly abominable software, designed by idiots, for idiots, became dominant.

Now, if DOS could be combined with Unix version 7, that would be almost perfection.

Re:Now if only Windows could do the same thing, ri by lithron · 2004-01-10 03:02 · Score: 2, Interesting

Almost completely legally? So you're saying its illegal, right?

My DosEmu Experience by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-10 03:03 · Score: 2, Funny

Well here was my experience installing it:

tar xzvf dosemu-1.1.99.1.tgz
cd dosemu-1.1.99.1/
make

ERROR:

In file included from /usr/include/linux/pci.h:20,
from /usr/include/sys/pci.h:23,
from ../../../src/include/pci.h:10,
from int.c:44:
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:18: error: parse error before "__u32"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:20: error: parse error before "class"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:21: error: parse error before "driver_data"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:31: error: parse error before "__u32"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:33: error: parse error before "model_id"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:34: error: parse error before "specifier_id"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:35: error: parse error before "version"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:36: error: parse error before "driver_data"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:99: error: parse error before "__u16"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:103: error: parse error before "idProduct"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:104: error: parse error before "bcdDevice_lo"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:105: error: parse error before "bcdDevice_hi"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:108: error: parse error before "bDeviceClass"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:109: error: parse error before "bDeviceSubClass"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:110: error: parse error before "bDeviceProtocol"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:113: error: parse error before "bInterfaceClass"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:114: error: parse error before "bInterfaceSubClass"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:115: error: parse error before "bInterfaceProtocol"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:118: error: parse error before "driver_info"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:135: error: parse error before "__u16"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:138: error: parse error before "dev_type"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:139: error: parse error before "cu_model"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:140: error: parse error before "dev_model"
/usr/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h:142: error: parse error before "driver_info"

But its dealing with Matrox card (which I dont have) so I take it out... 20 files later:
Same error different file

Suddenly I remember:

apt-get install dosemu

1 minute later I am playing X-Com UFO defense! Yea!

Re:WP 5.1!!! by salesgeek · 2004-01-10 03:31 · Score: 2, Insightful

I, for one, don't want to go back to only using fonts that reside in the printer you have currently attached and have everything messed up when the document had to be printed elsewhere.

LOL! How little things have really changed. My current era MS Word, Lotus WordPro and WP 11 all have problems with formatting when I switch from my Lexmark to a Canon ink jet as the Canon supports edge to edge printing where the Lexmark doesn't. WP would have font issues - if a printer wouldn't have a given font in would usually default to 10 Pitch whatever...

Back in the day, as now if you were doing publication ready stuff, you had to use the right tools - and wordprocessors are not and never have been up to the task!

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Re:WP 5.1!!! by iantri · 2004-01-10 03:35 · Score: 4, Informative

You might find it interesting that WP 5.1 WAS ported to UNIX.. unfortunately, it is not available anymore and would probably require a fair bit of modification to get running on anything modern (back to the source code issue).

There were several versions of the graphical WordPerfect available for Linux.. google and you will find a guide to getting them running on a modern distro.

Unfortunately, only the very crippled personal version is available for free, and since Corel killed all their Linux stuff, you can't get it anymore.

ok, it's not a big deal to install it by ammoQ · 2004-01-10 04:12 · Score: 2, Interesting

But the information "You can use this without problems. It works. Try it. It runs your classic games." is valueable enough. I think I would not have tried this without this article. So I did, and yes, it works, and even my good old home-brew pacman works perfectly. Good old time.

Re:Now all I need is a CP/M emulator. by schwaang · 2004-01-10 08:41 · Score: 2, Informative

When I get all nostalgic for my old 8" floppy (drive) I visit the Online Software Museum.

[See "Boot CP/M!" link mid-page.]

My personal favorites (off the top of my head) by CAIMLAS · 2004-01-10 13:18 · Score: 2, Informative

MechWarrior II: 21st Century Combat
Commander Keen
Scorched Earth/TANKS!
Hugo Whodunit (wish I could find a copy of those!)
Raptor: Call of the Shadows/Raptor 2
Descent
Duke Nukem 3D
Command and Conquer (Gold)
Warcraft I and II

Oher than the games listed above, I pretty much missed out on the DOS gaming era - I didn't get a Nintendo until '93 or so, and quite a while longer until I got a PC ('96?).

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