Some DOSBox Fun
DOSBox is an x86 emulator that includes compatibility with MS-DOS programs. The installation is quick and painless, and the ability to easily mount your host directories as drives makes it one of the easiest ways we know of to run some of the lingering DOS programs we have around. Two of my favorite DOS apps are a version of life and a matrix calculator I wrote in '93. Just put the apps you want to run on the hosts filesystem:
srv-5:~/dosbox usr4$ ls -l
total 304
-rw-r--r-- 1 usr4 usr4 17874 Dec 2 2003 486life.lif
-rw-r--r-- 1 usr4 usr4 52016 Dec 2 2003 life.com
-rw-r--r-- 1 usr4 usr4 80447 Dec 2 2003 matmas.exe
srv-5:~/dosbox usr4$
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The above files are available for download.
Right-click (or whatever) on the files above to save and run them.
The .lif file can be loaded once you start life.
Mount the directory the files are in with the mount command:
Here is life running:
Here is the matrix calculator, Matrix Master, running:
As the SuSE folks used to say, "Have a lot of fun!".
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