Re: [gentoo-user] Which emulators for DOS+Win3.1 games?
> 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? I made good experience using dosbox to run old dos games. I don't know, if Win 3.11 will run in dosbox, but why not, it is a dos game. ;) Wine can only emulate win programs (correct me if I'm wrong), so try this, if you have a win 3.11 game. Sascha signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Which emulators for DOS+Win3.1 games?
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 ($DEITY, those were hell to get running). So I would suggest that you first go by the DOSBox homepage at http://dosbox.sourceforge.net and look at their database (it's very very long), to see if your game is listed, and its run status, by version. Hope this helps. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Which emulators for DOS+Win3.1 games?
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 08:21:23PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote > DosBox is working well for me (although I have not used it for much as yet). > > As far as I can tell, you might well be able to run some Win 3.1 and Win > 95 games under it (since there aren't any Win 3.1 games, they were DOS > games, and half of the Win95 games were just DOS games with a GUI > installer/loader stuck on ($DEITY, those were hell to get running). Finally got it running. Since SDL is hooked into svgalib (at least on my system) I had to... - modprobe svgalib_helper (which creates /dev/svga and /dev/svga1) - chmod u+s /usr/games/bin/dosbox (with the usual security disclaimer) - and remember that svgalib has to be emerged every time I rebuild the kernel My startup messages include... > CONFIG: Using default settings. Create a configfile to change them > ALSA:Can't subscribe to MIDI port (65:0) > MIDI:Opened device:none The config I'll get to later. My question right now is how do I get midi connected. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Which emulators for DOS+Win3.1 games?
Walter Dnes schreef: > > Finally got it running. Since SDL is hooked into svgalib (at least on > my system) I had to... > - modprobe svgalib_helper (which creates /dev/svga and /dev/svga1) > - chmod u+s /usr/games/bin/dosbox (with the usual security disclaimer) > - and remember that svgalib has to be emerged every time I rebuild the > kernel > > My startup messages include... > >>CONFIG: Using default settings. Create a configfile to change them >>ALSA:Can't subscribe to MIDI port (65:0) >>MIDI:Opened device:none > > > The config I'll get to later. My question right now is how do I get > midi connected. > Easiest thing to do is install dboxfe (dosbox frontend) and configure the settings there. What is your MIDI setup (is MIDI currently running on your machine without reference to dosbox)? I should have ALSA MIDI and Timidity set up (I think), but I haven't tested as I don't offhand know what DOS games/apps actually use MIDI. So if you happen to know of a piece of abandonware that does, let me know and I'll try it, and if it works, tell you how I did it (if simply setting DOSBox up correctly doesn't work for you). HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Which emulators for DOS+Win3.1 games?
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:20:05PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote > Easiest thing to do is install dboxfe (dosbox frontend) and configure > the settings there. GUI config tools are for Minesweeper-Consultantants-Solitaire-Experts. Real computer users edit config files. Now that I got it going, I simply ran config, and manually edited the resulting defaults. > What is your MIDI setup (is MIDI currently running on your machine > without reference to dosbox)? I should have ALSA MIDI and Timidity set What the bleep have they done to Timidity??? It *USED* to work out-of-the-the-box in previous versions. Now it's looking for some "current" directory, and dies with an error. If I comment out the line "source current/timidity.cfg" in /etc/timidity.cfg it does attempt to play, but generates a ton of messages like... "No instrument mapped to tone bank 0, program 27 - this instrument will not be heard" I *DID* RTFM the timidity and timidity.cfg and there's *NOTHING* about "current/timidity.cfg" -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Which emulators for DOS+Win3.1 games?
Walter Dnes schreef: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:20:05PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote > >>What is your MIDI setup (is MIDI currently running on your machine >>without reference to dosbox)? I should have ALSA MIDI and Timidity set > > > What the bleep have they done to Timidity??? It *USED* to work > out-of-the-the-box in previous versions. Now it's looking for some > "current" directory, and dies with an error. If I comment out the line > "source current/timidity.cfg" in /etc/timidity.cfg it does attempt to > play, but generates a ton of messages like... > > "No instrument mapped to tone bank 0, program 27 - this instrument will not > be heard" > > I *DID* RTFM the timidity and timidity.cfg and there's *NOTHING* about > "current/timidity.cfg" Here's my /etc/timidity.cfg: # # 1. Change directory to patch directory # 2. Source current/timidity.cfg # # Current patch set will always be symlinked to current, so make sure that the # proper timidity.cfg is in there # # # - source /usr/share/timidity # - source ~/.timidity/current # - Make ~/.timidity/current point to the current patch set, or to whatever #the individual user sets # - If ~/.timidity/current isn't found, it will try #/usr/share/timidity/current # dir /usr/share/timidity dir ~/.timidity source current/timidity.cfg OK. I don't have a ~/.timidity, but /usr/share/timidity is there. As you found, there is no /current directory, but since this whole thing refers to patches, I can only assume that the /eawpatches folder-- which *is* present-- would be what is desired (but what about me, who doesn't have a bloody SoundBlaster? Do I need these patches? Can I use these patches? I don't know). The eawpatches folder does contain a timidity.cfg, further indicating that somebody simply forgot to change the name (either of the folder, to /current, or of the setting, to point to /eawpatches instead of /current). So since you can set the 'patch folder' yourself, I would suggest changing the setting to read source eawpatches/timidity.cfg and that looks like it would work. I know nothing about MIDI or Timidity, so I wouldn't know if it was working anyway; I only installed it because a game I was trying to install plays all the WAV files properly, but not the MIDI, and I thought it might help. However, a) my soundcard does have a Wavetable Synthesizer (so I shouldn't need to emulate Midi); b) I fixed ALSA, which was set up wrong (so the internal Midi should be working); and c) for all I know, it's a Wine/Cedega problem anyway, and nothing to do with ALSA or Timidity. The point being, we have now reached (and passed) the point where you know more about this than I do, but I hope I've been helpful in giving you a boost to a point where you can fix the remaining issues yourself :) . Holly > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Which emulators for DOS+Win3.1 games?
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. "find *eawpatches*" didn't find a directory, but it did find... /usr/portage/media-sound/timidity-eawpatches I emerged timidity-eawpatches. At the end of the emerge was this message... * You must run 'timidity-update -g -s eawpatches' to set this * patchset as the default system patchset. I did that, and timidity now plays just fine. I wonder if there was a similar message at the end of the timidity++ emerge. I did a couple of packages at once, so if there was a message, I missed it. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
