DOS emu and games

[Cyber Source]

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I really wish there a better alternative than gnumoney, because I am in
the same boat. Anyone know of a viable Linux money package?

On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 12:05, JJ Neff wrote:

> I was coming to that conclusion...  I was gonna format a smallish partition
> ~750MB with Fat and use a DOS bootdisk.  Still have to reboot to play but don't
> have to be in Windows...
> 
> Oh well. I haven't given up entirely, I want to try DosEMU with a DOS boot disk
> (still having trouble even getting a CDROM loaded in DosEMU) I may be having
> some problems with Supermount and dosemu and the cd not sure yet...
> 
> I actually thought I was the only Daggerfall player ever!  :-)  I have
> Battlespire as well but didn't enjoy it as much.  
> 
> Come to think of it some of my favorite games EVER were DOS, Tombraider,
> Daggerfall, BioForge,  but of course that leaves out Half-Life and RTCW (which
> I consider Linux games:-).  
> 
> I hope to try NWN tonight as I downloaded the Linux Resources and Linux client
> and Linux updates - but to free up enough space I'll have to format my Windows
> Partitions :-O !!!  (Now that I have VMware running Win98 that is not as
> scary... Have to be able to use MS Money)
> 
> 
> JJN
> --- Greg Neumann <dadneumann at adelphia.net> wrote:
> > Wow!  Another Daggerfall addict!  Hey, Daggerfall is tricky enough to 
> > get to run in native DOS, let alone an emulator!  My solution is to just 
> > have a DOS partition.  Of course, I'm very much resigned to having 
> > Daggerfall crash in DOS at least once every session.  Running it in 
> > Win98 works about the same, and getting sound support is iffy at best.  
> > I gave up on Win95.  I rather doubt you'll ever get good Daggerfall 
> > performance in an emulation, as the game itself is far from stable.  If 
> > you have any luck, please post.
> > -Greg
> > 
> > JJ Neff wrote:
> > 
> > >I tried Wine, DOSEMU and FreeDos, I just can't seem to get DaggerFall to run
> > in
> > >Linux.  It's a Dos6 game that came out prior to Win95.  
> > >I tried DosBox and that site has a note specifically about Daggerfall that
> > it
> > >segfaults and sure enough it did.
> > >
> > >Wine started the install but then froze and wouldn't let me click anything
> > >(mouse problem?) and Dosemu doesn;t seem to want to find the CDrom to run
> > the
> > >install.
> > >
> > >Any help? easy to follow web sites or suggestions?
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >
> > >JJN
> > >
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