Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@vianet.ca> wrote:
> 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 first thing I would try would be Wine since it requires Windows.
Failing that, I'd probably set up a virtual machine with Qemu or
VirtualBox and try installing Dos+Windows 3.1.
Elijah
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