(on Wikipedia)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/
http://www.dosbox.com/

A DOS emulation program.

Absolutely essential for emulating DOS not just within Windows or a traditional Linux environment, but within ARM/Linux as well, for palmtops and phones.

For games I've played via it, see /tag/dosbox-games (although the tag is new and not populated well)

• http://www.vogons.org/viewforum.php?f=53
• http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/index.php?page=dosbox.conf

• Cacko and DOSBox:

  • http://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=18686&pid=138659&st=0&

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• 2009-12-30 - 0.7.3 on Unity Linux 64bit-beta1
• 2005-03-xx (date unknown) - (version not recorded) on PCLinuxOS (version not recorded)

• I had been using it for some time.

2009-12-30 - 0.7.3 ∞

Grabbed it from source. ./configure had one dependency:

smart install lib64SDL-devel

mv -f .deps/core_simple.Tpo .deps/core_simple.Po
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../..  -I../../include -I/usr/include/SDL -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -D_REENTRANT  -g -O2  -MT core_prefetch.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/core_prefetch.Tpo -c -o core_prefetch.o core_prefetch.cpp
g++: Internal error: Killed (program cc1plus)
Please submit a full bug report.
See <https://qa.mandriva.com/> for instructions.

.. this also reproducibly crashes Firefox! Neat!

2005-03-xx (date unknown) - (version not recorded) ∞

PCLinuxOS has it installed by default. It works perfectly. It's pretty crappy though.. with sound dropouts and nasty speed issues.

Usage ∞

Running a command ∞

Something simple:

nice -n -10 dosbox \
  -c "mount c ./" \
  -c "c:" \
  -c "$1" \
  -c "exit"

This works:

dosbox -c "mount c /dos/" -c "c:" -c "C:\dos\edit.com test" -c "exit"

But how do I pass parameters if this were an alias? This fails.

alias edit='dosbox -c "mount c /dos/" -c "c:" -c "C:\dos\edit.com $1" -c "exit"'

Make it a procedure instead..

edit() {
  dosbox -c "mount c /dos/" -c "c:" -c "C:\dos\edit.com $1" -c "exit"
}

Or maybe you want to do something cool like this:

edit() {
  dosbox -c "mount d /" -c "mount c /dos/" -c "c:" -c "C:\dos\edit.com $1" -c "exit"
}

Last updated 2022-12-12 at 23:30:00