DOSbox

Qui n'a jamais revé de jouer a ses anciens jeux favoris DOS sous linux ?

La solution existe : dosbox

Ce logiciel permet de lancer un émulateur DOS :

Installation sous ubuntu intrepid :

apt-get install dosbox

Si en plus vous avez le paquet pulseaudio (cas usuel), et que vous voulez du son, il faudra installer le paquet libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio :

apt-get install libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio

Le paramétrage s'effectue dans le fichier ~/.dosboxrc .

Voici par exemple un fichier de conf qui marche :

[sdl]
fullscreen = true
usescancodes=false

[dos]
# xms -- Enable XMS support.
# ems -- Enable EMS support.
# umb -- Enable UMB support.
# keyboardlayout -- Language code of the keyboard layout (or none).
xms=true
ems=true
umb=true
keyboardlayout = fr

[sblaster]
# Sound Blaster related options.
base=220
irq=7
dma=1
hdma=5
enabled=true
adlib=true
cms=false

[speaker]
# pcspeaker related options.
# pcspeaker -- Enable PC-Speaker emulation.
# pcrate -- Sample rate of the PC-Speaker sound generation.
# tandy -- Enable Tandy Sound System emulation (off,on,auto).
# For auto Tandysound emulation is present only if machine is set to tandy.
# tandyrate -- Sample rate of the Tandy 3-Voice generation.
# disney -- Enable Disney Sound Source emulation. Covox Voice Master and Speech Thing compatible.

pcspeaker=true
pcrate=22000
tandy=auto
tandyrate=20000
disney=false

[mixer]
# nosound -- Enable silent mode, sound is still emulated though.
# rate -- Mixer sample rate, setting any devices higher than this will
# probably lower their sound quality.
# blocksize -- Mixer block size, larger blocks might help sound stuttering
# but sound will also be more lagged.
# prebuffer -- How many milliseconds of data to keep on top of the blocksize.

nosound=false
rate=22000
blocksize=2048
prebuffer=10

#mount c ~/dosbox
#mount d /media/cdrom -t cdrom
[autoexec]
keyb fr
mount c /local/vieux_jeux
c: