Dos games on Ubuntu ?

[Bragador]

Or maybe it's older than dos... actually plaring it on dos is worse and using a Z-Machine interpreter is recommended.

Anyway I really want to try A Mind Forever Voyaging. It seems it was a big in in the 80s and I want to know why. And since I'll only have time for it this summer and since I also want to switch to linux this summer... Could I do both at the same time ?

I know there is Frotz http://www.cs.csubak.edu/~dgriffi/proj/frotz/ and I wonder if it works with wine or something.
And if you want to know where to get the game, it's here http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=14

Thanks whoever wants to help !

[LordBug]

Search is your friend :)

WINE is really meant for Windows stuff. I don't know how well (if at all) it emulates DOS. For that, I'd recommend DosBox first, Bochs if necessary.

[kudu]

DosBox works for me. It's in synaptic.

Regards,
kudu

[Bragador]

Oh boy I forgot to search :rolleyes:

Sorry about that, I thought nobody would have asked that.

Thank you guys.

[charlieg]

There are tens of thousands (if not more) people registering and posting here... it's very rare that a problem has not previously been encountered unless you're living on the edge (Dapper).

[handy]

Try here:

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1

[BoyOfDestiny]

DOSBox is great... As for frotz there is a native linux version (and many other versions). It's in the ubuntu repos (make sure to enable universe in sources.list)