Dosbox options
Similarly, you can install and run other classic DOS programs. Drive C is mounted as local directory /home/sk/dosprograms. You will see an output something like below. $ ls dosprograms/tc/īGI BIN CLASSLIB DOC EXAMPLES FILELIST.DOC INCLUDE LIB README README.COMĪnd mount the ~/dosprograms directory as virtual drive C:\ in DOSBox. I have save the contents turbo c++ in my ~/dosprograms/TC/ directory.
#Dosbox options how to
$ mkdir ~/dosprograms ~/dosgamesįor the purpose of this guide, let me show you how to install Turbo C++ program and Mario game.įirst, we will see how to install Turbo C++ compiler.ĭownload the latest Turbo C++ compiler, extract it and save the contents file in ~/dosprograms directory. The first directory is for storing programs and latter for storing games. I am going to create two directories named ~/dosprograms and ~/dosgames. Run MS-DOS Games And Programs In Linux Using DOSBoxįirst, we need to create directories to save the programs and games in our Linux system. Let us go ahead and install some DOS programs and games. Hope you learned the basic usage of DOSBox. To go back to normal screen, press ALT+ENTER. Now, DosBox will start in full-screen mode. To start dosbox directly in full-screen window, edit your dosbox-x.xx.conf file and set the value of fullscreen variable as enable. To exit from DOSBox, simply type and hit ENTER: exitīy default, DOSBox starts with a normal window-sized screen like above. To launch DOSBox, run the following command from the Terminal: $ dosbox In this configuration file, you can edit/modify various settings, such as starting DOSBox in fullscreen mode, use double buffering in fullscreen, set preferred resolution to use for fullscreen, mouse sensitivity, enable or disable sound, speaker, joystick and a lot more.Īs I mentioned earlier, the default settings will work just fine. The default configuration file named dosbox-x.xx.conf exists in your ~/.dosbox folder. There is no initial configuration required to use DOSBox and it just works out of the box. On openSUSE: $ sudo zypper install dosbox Configure DOSBox On Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint: $ sudo apt-get install dosbox
On Arch Linux and its variants like Manjaro Linux, run: $ sudo pacman -S dosbox
#Dosbox options apk
Install Dosbox in Alpine Linux: $ sudo apk add dosbox Run MS-DOS Games And Programs In Linux Using DOSBoxĭOSBox is available in the default repositories of most Linux distributions.