Prince of Persia!

[ProjectGod]

hi,
this game may be old but it's a classic!

1) at the terminal x@y:/$ sudo aptitude install dosbox
2) create directory /prince with sudo. take ownership and relax all the permissions on that directory.
3) visit abandonia and search for "prince"
4) download it and unzip it into a newly created /prince directory.
5) from the terminal start dosbox (DOS emulator)-- x@y:/$ dosbox
6) within dosbox virtual mount the directory-- z:\> mount x /prince
7) change to that virtual mounted drive-- z:\> x:
8. start prince! x:\> prince

NOTE: the text in bold are the strings to use.
NOTE2: if the game appears slow within the dosbox / game hold down CONTROL and tap F12. you should see the cpu cycles: 3000 increase higher thus increasing the speed of the game
NOTE3: if you can't get out of prince with ALT+TAB just press CONTROL + F1 two times to get a menu and get your mouse to start working again!
NOTE4: CONTROL + F8 to quit!

Kudos.

PS. another classic game is DUNE 2 also found on the same website.

[edemark]

really good idea I was just looking around there and find some really nice games. On the other side I might suggest to use the Official DOSBox Game Launcher that makes life much easyer (in the original dosbox i just could not find : so there was no c: etc) other than that it comes with dosbox 0.65 cvs. The direction is
http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/bla...gl/#futurework

good luck

[MrBlond83]

Now what about Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, Warrior Within and Two Thrones If those could work under Ubuntu i'd be happy

[edemark]

You may have a look on this page http://cedegawiki.sweetleafstudios.c...tegory:Working
it lists two of you three desired PoP game
though it would have an additional cost of 15$ (5$ for at leas three month)

bye

[jdunn]

Originally Posted by ProjectGod PS. another classic game is DUNE 2 also found on the same website.

Dune 2 was such an awesome game. It was my first and is one of the best realtime strategy games I ever played. This truely was the mother of all modern RTS games. Somebody should do a 3D opensource remake of the original.

[adityabankar]

I found a link on installing Latest Prince of Persia, the windows version.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-t...tu-76665.shtml

[BigSilly]

Sands of Time runs OK with WINE. I have it and it's pretty good.

[mingtien]

I'm not sure if I should be thanking you -- as I am now about to waste *colossal* amounts of time -- but Thank you!!!

I didn't know of the existence of dosbox -- or that all these old games were available, and I am now embarking on a very pleasant trip down memory lane -- including even Adventure, which I used to play on my Vic-20 when I was a kid!!! And Dune -- a favourite when I was at Uni!

Cheers!

D.