Dosbox?

From: Richo (m.richardson_at_utas.edu.au)
Date: 11/17/04 

Date: 16 Nov 2004 17:03:36 -0800

Dosbox is a Dos emulator that lets you play DOS abondon ware.
(I am quite fond of lots of old DOS games...)
I have used it successfully on WIN2000 machines to run old DOS games.

Trying to install Dosbox on my Mandrake 9.1 Linux machine.
I have the archive file.
I can unpack it to a directory under my home directory.
(just "click" on it and the archive program fires up - very nice..)
I found a "make" script.
(I found heaps of files telling me the names of the authors etc but
nothing useful saying "do this, this and this "...)
I can execute the make script (Not from galeon - I dont know why - but
if I open a terminal and type the name of the script it runs...)
The script busilly does its thing until it stops with an error message
saying it cant find ISL (or something like that)
I havent got the least idea what ISL (or whatever it is) *is* and how
to find it.
There doesnt seem to be any help I can find.
Any ideas?
In general if some installation says "cant find xyz" where should I
begin looking?
Perhaps I have "xyz" on my machine somewhere (Mandrake has everything
and the kitchen sink generally...) and I need to set a path to it?

This is basic stuff I know.
Any help appreciated.

Mark.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: DOS Printing from Windows Server 2003 TS?
    ... STAT-NT03 is the TS server name. ... We will see if it works for the 5 remote users over the Internet. ... We have a customer who is still using and old DOS version of software ... could not find anything except a Kixstart script. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services)
  • Re: DOS Printing from Windows Server 2003 TS?
    ... TS2003 you wont be able to print to LPT1 if you are not an administrator. ... We have a customer who is still using and old DOS version of software ... them to move to the Windows version). ... could not find anything except a Kixstart script. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services)
  • Re: Domain information through vbs
    ... Sadly we do not have/use Active Directory so I am stuck using dos (for now ... >> me with the basics on how I can do this type of script. ... > script would have to parse through this to find the member names, ...
    (microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript)
  • Re: Search c drive and copy files of a certain extension
    ... to a standard maintenance problem that can be resolved in a single line ... his head at your "verbose" DOS. ... a 1 line batch script wasnt really an option because user permissions ...
    (microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript)
  • Re: [ Attn: Randy ] Ad-hoc Parsing?
    ... also the ia32 instruction set. ... Copy a 20 year old DOS port of sed to the current ... by a program (the shell). ... if you have a bash script and ...
    (alt.lang.asm)