DOSBox
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About
DOSBox is an open source DOS emulator for BeOS, Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2, and Windows. Primarily focuses on running DOS Games.
Installation of DOSBox
DOSBox is included in most distributions. Use your GNU/Linux distributions package management system to install.
On Gentoo Linux:
emerge dosbox
How to run it ?
It can be started from the console or from a KDE/GNONE run menu with the command:
dosbox
After that, type help for a list of shell commands and intro for a brief explanation of how to use DOSBox.
Easy Front End for DOSBox
It is very easy to use all featues that DOSBox provide through a nice FrontEnd. Currently the best DOSBox front end for Linux is DBoxFE. It will require Qt 4.1
On Gentoo Linux:
emerge dboxfe
Configuration files
See dosbox.conf. Most configuration options are simply passed to the dosbox executable from the command line or link. Emerging DOSBox does not automatically create a dosbox.conf. Type:
config -writeconf dosbox.conf
inside DOSBox to generate the config file.
Fullscreen mode
In order to switch to fullscreen mode press ALT+ENTER.