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Topic: Dosbox Gaming, Let's see what we can get

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clivesay

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Posted: Mar. 07 2005,14:18

All -

I have been playing with SaidinUnleashed' dosbox extension. I have classic Space Invaders, PacMan and a Virtual Pool (billiards) games running flawlessly as .dsl's with sound!

I have noticed that there are a TON of dos gaming sites and I don't have the time or the knowledge to research and try them all. Some games have not worked in dosbox and I don't know if there is a physical reason for that or if there is something in the game setup I am missing. The thing I like about the dos games is that it (1) takes me back to my youth (2) are VERY small in many cases. They are just perfect for DSL, especially if you want to pack a ton of stuff on a pendrive.

This is an opportunity to learn how to build your first .dsl file. Actually, they all will run from /opt so you will have a tar.gz!

You can d/l the Space Invaders tar.gz in Testing to see how I set it up. You have a dosbox.conf file that you have to edit at the bottom and add to your game directory and then add a special line in the fluxbox menu entry. This will allow you to launch the game directly into dosbox as long as you have dosbox installed.

So, is anyone "game"?

ke4nt1

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Posted: Mar. 07 2005,16:11

Yes, count me IN !!

Hopefully, the .tar.gz's will vaporize soon, as I convert most
of them to 'uninstallable' .uci files ..

I will post specifics of how-to make .uci's from .tar.gz's in the near future,
as well as some guidelines to the new requirements for making tar.gz's and .dsl files for DSL from various sources ..

73
ke4nt

clivesay

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Posted: Mar. 07 2005,16:33

Have we increased the number of .uci's we can run at one time in DSL? Because if I understand correctly, we want to convert ALL tar.gz's regardless of size?

Chris

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Posted: Mar. 08 2005,06:04

I've got a package of Mortal Kombat 2 made, but, as posted elsewhere, I'm unsure of the settings, 'cause whilst it works smoothly on my machine, when I tried it on another machine it ran badly, and the machine had OK specs.

I downloaded a few older, smaller games the other day (eg. Prince of Persia), but haven't gotten around to testing and packaging them yet.

.uci would definitely be good.

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reidar

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Posted: Mar. 08 2005,07:46

I have just started making dsl packages, and I also happen to love the old dos games. I will also try to make some dsl-versions of the old dos-games!

One really good website for old dosgames is:

abandonia.com

This site gives a presentations of hundreds of abandoned dos-games, with nice descriptions, screenshots, etc. And of course you can download them! Another nice thing, is that you can see if the game works in dosbox!

-r

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