old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64
Finally unpacking after my move and I came across some old games I'd
like to play. I had them when my IBM ValuePoint 486 was screaming HOT.
Now I have an AMD Athlon 3800+ with 1 GB ram, run Debian Etch amd64 with
the nVidia driver in icewm.
I have the dos 6.3 set of 5 floppies and the Windows 3.11 set of 6
floppies. I also have the Harpoon for windows CD.
The question is what app to run to make it work. The choices seem to be
dosbox
qemu
bochs
The system requirements on the Harpoon CD are:
386 PC
Dos 5.0 or higher
Windows 3.1 or higher
2 MB ram
hard disk
VGA graphics card and monitor
Sound Blaster or compatible
CD-ROM drive
MS compatible mouse.
I've checked the list archives and there hasn't been a discussion on
this since 2003 so I was wondering what the current consensus is.
Right now I don't have a hard drive small enough to work with the IBM's
BIOS (it doesn't even see the 6GB I have, yet alone not boot from it).
Getting a CF card and reader for it is another project.
Doug.
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