Walter Dnes schreef: > Going through some old backup CDs, I found a few obscure DOS games and > Chessmaster 3000 (I still have the original install floppies!). I don't > want to have to dual-boot or dedicate a machine to them. What are the > recommended emulators to use under Gentoo? The DOS games probably bang > away directly at IO ports, and Chessmaster 3000 could run under either > Win3.1 or Win95. > > Browsing through /usr/portage/app-emulation, I see dosemu and wine and > a whole bunch of others. Are dosemu and wine the ones to use, or are > some of the others (which I have no clue about) preferred? >
DosBox is working well for me (although I have not used it for much as yet). As far as I can tell, you might well be able to run some Win 3.1 and Win 95 games under it (since there aren't any Win 3.1 games, they were DOS games, and half of the Win95 games were just DOS games with a GUI installer/loader stuck on ($DEITY, those were hell to get running). So I would suggest that you first go by the DOSBox homepage at http://dosbox.sourceforge.net and look at their database (it's very very long), to see if your game is listed, and its run status, by version. Hope this helps. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
