old Dos VM

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 at 19:29, Bill <bstanle at wowway.com> wrote:
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>
> I know the danger of running these old DOS games so I would run them in
> a DOS Virtual Machine.

Don't. Seriously.

[1] It's harder work.

[2] DOS does work in true VMs, e.g. Virtualbox, but it's *extremely*
hard to get anything into or out of the VM.

[3] There's DOSemu, a dedicated DOS VM, but it's intended for working
with DOS apps, not for running games, and it's not very compatible.

No, the answer is to run a DOS emulator intended for running old
games, and luckily for you, there is just such a thing.

https://www.dosbox.com/

It comes complete with its own DOS built-in, and it's FOSS and in the
Ubuntu repos.


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