I dicovered DosBox a few weeks ago. Discovered pherhaps is not quite the right word as I was actively searching for something like that.<\/p>\n
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 ?.<\/p>\n
Then the WEB pointed me toward DosBox at http:\/\/www.dosbox.com and I gave it a try. What a fantastic utility.<\/p>\n
Installed it, installed the game into it, and played it all the way through again ( I kept the cheat sheets :-) ).
\nThen 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.<\/p>\n
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…<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
So little time, and so much to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading