Re: dune2 on debian

[Chris Roddy <croddy@emory.edu>]

Frank Lanitz wrote:
> Am Freitag 07 April 2006 10:01 schrieb Lubos Vrbka:
>> is there any way how to play good old dune2 (by westwood) and maybe
>> other dos games on debian?
> 
> There is a big number of software, that emulates DOS or other "former" 
> systems. Maybe you look at dosemu or dosbox. But which one ist better, I 
> realy can't say, because I don't have any usage for them at this point

I'm not familiar with Dune 2, so I can't recommend one specifically.
Dosemu requires some version of DOS to be present (e.g. MS-DOS, DR-DOS,
or FreeDOS) and is pretty flexible -- it can even be used to run DOS BBS
doors over stdio.

For "graphic-intensive" DOS games, Dosbox tends to be the better choice.
Dosbox also does not require any actual DOS command interpreter, as it
provides its own. With some tuning, I've gotten games based on the
original Doom engine to run on my Athlon 64 3000+ system.

There are other options, such as qemu, which may help if you run into
compatibility problems. In this case you would have to install DOS on a
virtual machine and then run software from within that.


cmr