HOWTO: DosBox

[gunny]

I ran into a problem starting DosBox and then getting the arrows keys to work on my old IBM ThinkPad.

When I tried to start DosBox nothing happened, so I opened terminal and ran dosbox from the command-line.

That returned the following error "error while loading shared libraries: libSDL_sound-1.0.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Searching the forum I found a post from marco which in part said "As it turns out the missing dependencies are: 'sdl-sound.tcz', 'libasound.tcz', and 'libvorbis.tcz'."

I loaded sdl-sound.tcz, libasound.tcz, libvorbis.tcz and DosBox opened.

The next problem I encountered was the arrow keys were not working.

The fix for this was to set usecancodes to false in the dosbox-0.74.conf file.

Afterwards I was able to install Windows 3.1 with sound, video and joy stick drivers.

Now my grandson can play some old school dos and windows games.

Tiny Core Linux Rocks!!!

[Lee]

Thanks for the HOWTO.

I don't suppose you've tested that setup with Red Storm Rising or F19 Stealth Fighter?

Try this for screen shots w/o the terminal window showing:

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( screenshot.sh & ) ; exit

[vinnie]

I wanted to package dbgl time ago but did not succeed 

[OldAdamUser2]

Thanks, gunny. Your tips really helped. I can now use the great DOS word processor--Norton Textra!

[gunny]

Lee,

Thanks for the screenshot tip! 

I added the following to .jwmrc-keys

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<Key mask="A" key="p">exec:screenshot.sh</Key>
 

[OldAdamUser2]

I have one odd observation in my installation of DosBox. When I first boot up, DosBox won't start. If I invoke it through a terminal window, I get the following:

tc@box:~$ dosbox
dosbox: error while loading shared libraries: libasound.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

But if I run Firefox first and then start DosBox, it works just fine. Strange.

[Rich]

Hi OldAdamUser2
That's because  libasound  is a dependency of Firefox, once you run it,  libasound  gets loaded.
Try running  dosbox --help  and see if there is a switch to disable sound if you don't need it.

[vinnie]

with jack is not possible to play multiple audio sources simultaneously?

[OldAdamUser2]

My problem was that I had set up Firefox to load ondemand. Once I changed it to load onboot, Dosbox works just fine. No need to actually start Firefox before Dosbox.

[floppy]

Afterwards I was able to install Windows 3.1 with sound, video and joy stick drivers.

Now my grandson can play some old school dos and windows games.

@gunny. Could you please update that post with..:
- how to install windows3.1 within DosBox
- few  links where to find dos and windows games free of charge
?
I have a small project: change my AMD K6-III into a "playstation" year 198x..!

[flyinghamster]

I got a question for you tinycore dosbox users out there! 

I am thinking about setting up a couple of tinycore usbsticks with extensions/libs to set up an the ipx network that is included in dosbox for network compatibility with certain dos games and was wondering if anyone had experience with this protocol in linux machines?

Specifically wondering if there are any specific libs i need for ipx network compatability.

[gerald_clark]

The only one I recall was MARS nwe.
Martin Stovers Netware Emulator.

[Pseudoman]

You shouldn't need any libs for IPX if you are using DOSBox. DOSBox will emulate IPX over UDP/IP.
Check out:
http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Connectivity

[cast-fish]

this is interesting thread

[flyinghamster]

  thanks, was worried i would have to go through a long process