Re: [orca-list] dosemu

["Bill Dengler(arch Gnu/Linux)" <billkd2008 gmail com>]

What about the bsdgames package?

Bill
On 06/20/13 15:39, Thomas Ward wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> Well, for one reason there are many text based games for Dos that one
> can play in Dosemu with Orca. As you know there aren't many accessible
> games written specifically for Linux, but one way of playing games in
> Linux is using an emulator like Dosemu and playing games like Any
> Night Football, Facing the Empire,  Piledriver, as well as various
> other Dos text based games.The only other way I know of to play games
> is to setup Wine with various dependencies like Visual Basic 6 runtime
> libraries, Visual C++ runtime libraries, DirectX, etc and install and
> play games like GMA Tank Commander under Wine 1.4. So games is one
> reason for running a Dos emulator.
>
> Cheers!
>
>
>
> On 6/20/13, Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com> wrote:
> > I am curious:  Why do you wish to run Dosemu?  I am sitting here and I find
> > that I cann't even begin to fathom a need to use something originally
> > written for DOS.  It is now some 18 years since I last used it on a regular
> > basis.  I can't say that I miss it at all.
> >
> > Alex M
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