DOlson Posted December 31, 2003 Report Share Posted December 31, 2003 If you are familiar with DOSBox at all, then you'll know how cool and easy it is to use. Well, I dug up a copy of my old games called Backstreet Boys Suck and Backstreet Boys Suck 2: Spice Girls Suck, and tried them out in DOSBox... Lo and behold, THEY WORK! Pretty neat stuff, considering these were both MAJOR hassles to get working in a Windows 98 environment even... I haven't played these games for probably over 3 years until a couple of days ago. Anyhow, if you want to try them, you can download them both from the Scapegoat Software website (link in sig). Just extract the zip file, then open a terminal in the directory that you extracted it to, then run dosbox ./ to start the emulator. Then, at the prompt, run the EXE file just like you would on a normal DOS machine. It should work fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted January 1, 2004 Report Share Posted January 1, 2004 wow i was not aware of dosbox have used dosemu which works but not well for me, dosbox plays UFO terror from the deep really well woohoo :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted January 1, 2004 Report Share Posted January 1, 2004 Very interesting. I've got a lot of old dos games and there's always more at the underdogs, but dos emu has always been very cumbersome for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted January 5, 2004 Report Share Posted January 5, 2004 I'm gonna try this! I have a heap of old Dos games that I collected with my brother as kids... Anybody tried it with Monkey Island 1 or 2? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted January 6, 2004 Report Share Posted January 6, 2004 No but on the dosbox site they have a games listing with the working status of each game so have a look. Monkey island 1 & 2 are supposed to work. http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/comp_list.php?letter=a Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted January 6, 2004 Report Share Posted January 6, 2004 Coolness.. and from the site.. it seems that dune2 is supported.. And there is mandrake rpms too.. time to download :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted January 6, 2004 Report Share Posted January 6, 2004 <<< SoulSe starts hitting the Abandonware sites >>> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted January 6, 2004 Report Share Posted January 6, 2004 SoulSe: A bit off-topic but have you tried scummVM for playing monkey island 1 & 2, it rocks. Also works with a heap of other lucasarts games (when they were still good). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted January 7, 2004 Report Share Posted January 7, 2004 SoulSe: A bit off-topic but have you tried scummVM for playing monkey island 1 & 2, it rocks. Also works with a heap of other lucasarts games (when they were still good). Yeah, I have... but I could never get it to run properly in Mandy... haven't tried in Gentoo yet. Apparently some of the Lucas Arts games require ScummVM even if you have DosBox, not sure what that is all about though, I haven't tried any Lucas Arts games with DosBox yet (trying to find 'em). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted January 7, 2004 Report Share Posted January 7, 2004 It's always run fine on my redhat and fedora boxes... :P Anyway, thanks for the tip DOlson, I'll try it as soon as I get some spare time!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendal Posted January 7, 2004 Report Share Posted January 7, 2004 newbie question, is this a kind of alternative to wine?? (only for the old dos games) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted January 7, 2004 Report Share Posted January 7, 2004 It's a DOS emulator where wine is (or isn't depending on your point of view) a windows emulator. If only ever heard of people using dosbox for games however and a quick scan of their site seems to be games orientated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted January 8, 2004 Report Share Posted January 8, 2004 Well, what the hell else would you want to do in Dos? It's only good for playing old games in.... C:\DOS> C:\DOS> Run Run Dos, Run Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendal Posted January 9, 2004 Report Share Posted January 9, 2004 yeah youre right, what was I thinking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted January 12, 2004 Report Share Posted January 12, 2004 Well, what the hell else would you want to do in Dos? It's only good for playing old games in.... believe it or not, there are still companies here in the philippines running legacy applications that only run on dos. :woops: ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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