Using DOS for emulate games

Here you’ll learn to download and setup DOS console.

DOSBOX

Dosbox is a shell-terminal that allows execute programs designed to run in DOS.

Installing

Note: DOSBox only recognized files, directories inside the path /home/$USER/ whose names only have 8 letters.

sudo apt-get install dosbox
dosbox

Executing games on DOSBOX

1. Run dosbox for first time, .dosbox/dosbox-0.74.conf will be created.

   

2. In /home/$USER/.dosbox creates the directory Games, here we put the directories with the programs executable for DOS.
   Then, modify the file .dosbox/dosbox-0.74.conf:

    [autoexec]
    # mounts C disk the path of ~/.dosbox/Games
    mount c ~/.dosbox/Games
   
    # mounts D disk like CDROM
    # mount d /media/cdrom -t cdrom
   
    # mounts image on the D disk
    # imgmount D /home/$USER/imagenes/game.iso -t iso
   
    # ES keyboard
    keyboardlayout=sp
   

Example

In /home/$USER/.dosbox/Games, copies the game directory and rename to a short name (<=8 letters).

• We use Megaman, just download the Iso game or press here.
• Uncompress on the directory .dosbox/Games and rename the game directory (from mega-man-x to MMX).
• Launch dosbox, if we configure the dosbox-0.74.conf file, just write C: and dosbox show the content of .dosbox/Games content.

Here is the elements in MMX directory:

Then, do this:

Z:\>
Z:\>C:
C:\>cd MMX
C:\MMX>

Here, we run tdujam.exe on DOSBOX, so write:

C:\MMX>tdujam

Select Install Game, on the option “ Install to what drive” write “C”:

Once installed, we run the game:

C:\MMX>MMXRUN

Here I show you an example with Megaman X (one of my favourite games)