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Contents 1 Dosbox 1.1 Example Games 1.2 MIDI 2 SCUMMVM

[edit] Dosbox

Cross platform dos emulation for dos based games

[edit] Example Games

• Xwing -
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_X-Wing_computer_game_series
  • http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/GAMES:X-Wing
• Panzer General
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_General
  • http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/GAMES:Panzer_General
  • http://www.elisoftware.net/index.php?title=Panzer_General_(PC,_CD-ROM)_Strategic_Simulations,_Inc._-_1994_USA,_Canada_Release
    • rip iso image of panzer general cdrom, put in /usr/local/dosbox/iso
    • mount iso image: sudo mount -t iso9660 -o loop ./iso/panzer_general.iso ./cdrom
    • start dosbox
    • mount c C:\dos
    • mount d /usr/local/dosbox/cdrom -t cdrom
    • install: d:/install
    • play: c:/pg/pg
• Ogre
  • http://www.elisoftware.net/index.php?title=Ogre_(PC,_5_1/4"_Disk)_Origin_Systems_-_1986_USA,_Canada_Release

[edit] MIDI

Background music for many dos based games was MIDI based and relied on MIDI enabled sound cards to play. Most sound cards don't support MIDI in hardware as they once did, but it has to be enabled in sofware.

• http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/MIDI-HOWTO.html
• http://www.lesbell.com.au/Home.nsf/b8ec57204f60dfcb4a2568c60014ed0f/c4b39482154feb03ca256f8100150ad9?OpenDocument

[edit] SCUMMVM

SCUMM is a scripting language and interpreter developed by LucasArts and used by several gaming companies to develop games on multiple platforms in the early 90s. SCUMMVM is an open source interpreter for these games.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCUMM
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScummVM
• http://www.scummvm.org/

• RPM package available for Fedora from, but not for Centos. It is however, easily built.
  • Given an rpm build environment
  • rpmbuild --rebuild scummvm-1.1.0-1.src.rpm
  • sudo rpm -Uvh ./rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/scummvm-1.1.0-1.x86_64.rpm