DOSBOX RUN DOS APPLICATIONS AND GAMES IN UBUNTU LINUX
The Fundamental Operating System DOS is still alive. For basic study purpose, DOS is Used in most of the Universities. Now Also people like DOS games. The Famous C language Compilers are woking only is DOS. You can Make a virtual DOS environment Linux.
sudo apt-get install dosbox
(Your can use Synaptic Package Manager and search for dosbox)
After Installation you can make a folder xxxxx in your home directory
(eg: $mkdir mydos)
copy your favorite dos programs and games like Turboc, dave, digger etc in this directory
Now you can run dosbox by typing dosbox in a terminal or
by select it from menu
You will get a small dos window with Z:\> prompt
in Z prompt type the following
Z:\>mount c /home/xxx/mydos
This command for mounting your dos directory to C Drive
(in my case my dos files are in /home/shibu/mydos )
Now You are ready for running your dos programms
Z:\> c: ( change drive to c:)
Z:\>dir (this will list your dos files placed in /home/shibu/mydos)
if ther is our old famous digger game
Z:\>digger and Enjoy it.
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