dos emulator
Forum: myDSL Extensions (deprecated)
Topic: dos emulator
started by: rossjman1
Posted by rossjman1 on Jan. 15 2005,04:30
Is there any dos emulator for dsl? I have a dual booting system, but I'm usually in dsl. My computer has no cd drive(that works), so I have to slit files onto floppies and use rar for dos. Is there anyway I can do this in dsl?
Posted by mikshaw on Jan. 15 2005,04:40
There's RAR for Linux from < http://www.rarsoft.com/ >It's shareware, or trial software or something, but it apparently works.
Posted by rossjman1 on Jan. 15 2005,04:50
Is there any other rar clones or dos emulator, I plan on using the software more than what the trial period is on LinRar ;).
Posted by mikshaw on Jan. 15 2005,05:58
There's DOSemu....I don't know anything about it to recommend one way or the other.< http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosemu/ >
Posted by rossjman1 on Jan. 15 2005,16:54
Do I have to do anything special to run it? I already have it on my system, but when I try to run it, nothing happens... It looks great btw.
Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 15 2005,21:59
Just get linux rar.Enable APT
Open an xterminal
sudo su
nano /etc/apt/sources.list
change "stable" to "testing" in the line that doesn't begin with a "#"
save the file
apt-get update
apt-get install rar
<Y>es, I want to install it.
and you are ready to go.
Posted by rossjman1 on Jan. 15 2005,22:28
I'm not connected the internet on the dsl/dos box. I would rather have the dosemu, so I can play dos games like simcity 2000 or whatever.
Posted by Patrick on Jan. 17 2005,09:22
rossjman1,Did you manage to work with dosemu? (i want to use i too)
Got as far as to apt-get it and run it, but then it want freedos or something....
Posted by henk1955 on Jan. 17 2005,13:34
i think dosemu in not a dos emulator.it is a pc emaulator that enables you to run dos.
so you need some sort of dos.
the easiest way to get it gooing is.
download and extract the dosemu-1.2.2-bin.tgz AND dosemu-freedos-b9r5-bin.tgz from < DOSEMU Stable Code >
Posted by rossjman1 on Jan. 17 2005,18:30
I will try that.
Posted by rossjman1 on Jan. 17 2005,20:07
Random googling on a totaly different subject, I got this < http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DOSEMU-HOWTO.html#toc1 >weird, lol.
This is the debian version of dosemu. Maybe somebody could make a mydsl extension for it? < http://packages.debian.org/unstable/otherosfs/dosemu >
Posted by rossjman1 on Jan. 17 2005,21:55
I just tried to make a dsl my self, but whenever I try to execute the deb2dsl script, I get this error:: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
I still get this message after running this command:
chmod 755 deb2dsl
I was able to do something with apt-get and dpkg -i, but I'm new to linux, and I don't know what it did.
Posted by henk1955 on Jan. 17 2005,22:06
i think you dont need the *.deb.just download the dosemu-1.2.2-bin.tgz AND dosemu-freedos-b9r5-bin.tgz from DOSEMU Stable Code.
extract them in /opt
then tar.gz the /opt/dosemu dir.
thats it.
Posted by rossjman1 on Jan. 17 2005,22:49
Oh, I'll have to try that. What do I do with the tar.gz file when I'm done? Do I just press the mydsl button in elmefm?I already made a .dsl though. It seems to install fine, but the program itself doesn't work (to my knowledge).
Posted by rossjman1 on Jan. 17 2005,23:21
Thanks, it worked. After extracting both tgz files i executed the dosemu file. Now I have to learn how to access my fat16 logical partition where all my dos files are. Thanks again!edit: I figured it out, but when I can't run any dos programs with this. Even Simcity 2000, which is in one of the screenshots, doesn't work! Simcity 2000 is the only prog that doesnt freeze the program, but it gives me an error saying that it didn't detect a video card, and I should reinstall the driver. I tryed the dosemu in and out of x.
Posted by Patrick on Jan. 18 2005,08:15
I did this: Apt-get install dosemu
then downloaded freedos from debian.org (only unstable and testing are available)
Installation (dpkg -i) went without errors...
BUT
a "simple" diskcopy msdos-program like diskcopyfast will freeze the terminal (and so will pqmagic and ghost)
Posted by Patrick on Jan. 18 2005,11:51
http://susehelp.l4l.be/console/dosemu.htmlLooks like there is a lot more possible!!
Posted by rossjman1 on Jan. 18 2005,18:16
I got this to work with just extracting. There are two program files. One is to open in bash (dosemu) and another to open in x (xdosemu). When executing xdosemu, I can run games.
Posted by remo on Jan. 22 2005,14:02
I would recommend dosbox. It works great for playing old dosgames (which can be downloaded for free at abandonia.com and other places) and other dos-programs. Really easy to use, and is available via apt-get if you run hd-install.-r
Posted by clacker on Jan. 28 2005,12:44
Was anyone able to get the vga fonts to install? I had no luck with this, and some of the text is gibberish without it. I read you need mkfontdir, but that doesn't seem to exist.EDIT:
load gnu-utils.dsl
copy the *.gz fonts to the X fonts/misc directory
sudo update-fonts-dir misc