I dicovered DosBox a few weeks ago. Discovered pherhaps is not quite the right word as I was actively searching for something like that.
Basically I wanted to play one of my old games (toon struck) and it refused to run under WinXP, wanted DOS. I would have quickly knocked up a DOS 5.1 VM but could I find my DOS install disks anywhere ?, no. When was the last time you used yours ?.
Then the WEB pointed me toward DosBox at http://www.dosbox.com and I gave it a try. What a fantastic utility.
Installed it, installed the game into it, and played it all the way through again ( I kept the cheat sheets :-) ).
Then I though what about all the other old games. Diskworld II could run in DOS, in that went as well. Then I tries Woodruff and the Schnibble, oops, that requires Win3.1 or above not DOS. Installed all 5 Leasure Suit Larry games into it instead and saved the whole setup to a DVD so I can run them later without repeating all the hassles.Must re-enter all the cheat sheets though, and save those on files along with the games, the ones I had printed are really faded now.
Need to do something with Woodruff though, I really like that game as well. Will have to see if that runs in WinXP. I have a Win98 VM but that has no sound, Win98 can’t find sound drivers for VirtualBox. But thats for later…
For now my next project is trying to get openid working in wordpress (the plugin is there, but it just freezes when adding a working openid url to an existing user) and then get openid working in phpBB3 which seems incredibly complicated, and then for my website of course. Although I have just got the third book in David Weber’s ‘safehold’ series that I have been waiting for for so long, might have to read that first.
So little time, and so much to do.
