Want to play DOS games (like Jazz Jackrabbit, quake 2 , doom etc) in Linux.. Yes, it is absolutely possible in linux using a software called dosbox To install the dosbox in fedora , first you have to compile dosbox from sources Follow these steps to compile dosbox in fedora core 1. Download this source file dosbox-0.72.tar.gz 2. Do tar -zxvf dosbox-0.72.tar.gz in your home directory 3. cd dosbox-0.72 4. Issue the following command ./configure 5. Compile the sources by issuing make 6. su - 7. Give the root password 8. Goto the directory where you issued ./configure command in step 4) 9. make install 10. Now you have the dosbox executable in /usr/local/bin This complets the installation part. Now we will concentrate on how to play games in dosbox Invoke the /usr/local/bin/dosbox as shown in the figure  2. Create a folder named games in your home directory For eg. /home/joyce/games 3. Download your favourite game from the website http://dosgames.com 4. If the games is a packaged in a .zip file, create a folder in /home/<username>/games and unzip the .zip file into this folder Eg. $ cd /home/joyce/games $ mkdir jazz $ unzip jazz.zip 3. Type the following command in Z: mount C /home/<username>/games Eg. mount C /home/joyce/games 4. Type the following command to change to C: Z:> C: 5. cd jazz 6. jazz  Happy gaming in LINUX !!!!! |