dosbox for Linux

DOSBox is graphical application that provides rich programming emulation of Intel 8086 real-mode, SVGA and DOS with XMS/EMS (but no DPMI!).

This is very useful for running old good DOS games written for PC/XT/AT that's impossible directly on modern Pentiums, SUN's, PowerPC & etc. At least PII 400MHz is required for comfortable running.

Full list of tested games successfully supported by DOSBox is published on the http://dosbox.sourceforge.net site.

Run it as following:

• dosbox /path/to/game.exe
• dosbox /path/to/gamedir

• dosbox /tmp/old-games/ugh.exe ...maps given directory to drive C: and start given EXE/COM/BAT-file
• dosbox /usr/local/games ...maps given directory to drive C: and start built-in COMMAND.COM

Related links

• My overview of DOS environments (in Russian)
• Lot of small DOS games on this site
• Primary DOSBox site
• Games collection on the FTP site of Joint Institute of Nuclear Researches (always busy!)

RPM packages (source and binary)

Package	Size	MD5
dosbox-0.61-1.i586.rpm	758413	3c6648b9ee0477d7238671e08a4303dc
dosbox-0.61-1.src.rpm	632115	7ef27efedb10edbdda6837a6a7b7047f

Source files

Filename	Size
dosbox-0.61.tar.gz	567200
dosbox-genconf	856
dosbox.conf.sample-header	717
dosbox.conf.sample	4841
dosbox.lang.en	9119
dosbox.ru.1	7622
dosbox-intro.xml	20168
dosbox-install	7575
dosbox.xpm.gz	2108
dosbox-mini.xpm.gz	1098
dosbox-large.xpm.bz2	4940
dosbox.spec	6417

Last changed at 19 February 2004 MSK 05:48
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