by jesse

Have a great weekend :)

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by siyb

I recently had a nostalgic backflash of some kind when surfing the net. I found a page containing several DOS games I used to play when I was a small kid. Games like: Wolf3d, Blake Stone, Duke3d and Blood. Surprisingly, some of the games are not free of charge, but luckily you are able to get a shareware version, which contains the first episode of each game, although there are more limitations to that as well (for instance, if you use the cheat ‘dnstuff’ in Duke3d, not all weapons will be given to you).

I decided to use dosbox for the emulation as I have used it before and as it has proven itself to be a capable tool. First of all you will need to install dosbox on your system (kinda obvious Oo), I am using Debian SID, so you might need to alter the commands to fit your needs.

apt-get install dosbox

After dosbox is installed you will need to modify the configuration file so that it fits your needs. The config can be found at /usr/share/doc/dosbox/dosbox.conf.example.gz.

mv /usr/share/doc/dosbox/dosbox.conf.example.gz ~ && gunzip dosbox.conf.example.gz && mv dosbox.conf.example .dosboxrc

Now it’s time to edit the configuration file. You should really modify the cpu settings, otherwise games will run extremely slow. I altered core and cycles, if you know the exact value of cycles your system is capable of specify it, else use the auto setting instead.

core=full
cycles=auto
cycleup=500
cycledown=20

If you want to be able to play games over LAN, you will also need to enable the ipx setting, I have not personally tested network gaming yet, but I suppose it works well.

ipx=true

Now open a terminal and run dosbox. Installing programs is pretty simple. First of all you need to create a directory somewhere in your filesystem. I am using ~/bin/dos/ for instance. After that you need to mount this directory onto a virtual drive.

mount c ~/bin/dos
C:

In this case the dos dir will be mounted onto C: and after that the current dir will be set to C:, you may add those two lines in the [autoexec] section of your .dosboxrc file in order to execute them on startup. Now use ‘cd’ to change to the directory of your desired game and run the installer.

by jesse

Ich habe leider wegen Zeitmangel so gut wie gar nichts geschafft in der letzten Woche, nichts gebloggt und das Design auch nicht zu Ende gebracht. Weiss auch nicht, ob ich das an diesem Wochenende schaffe. Nichtsdestotrotz surft man natürlich durchs Netz und da stelle ich mit Begeisterung fest, wie sich das Netz gegen die erschreckenden Geschehnisse in unserer Innenpolitik formiert. Ich sammle fleissig URLs und hoffe, die am Wochenende mal abzubloggen (lest fefe). Wie dem auch sei, als nunmehr definierter Linksextremist

hab ich mich kurz hingesetzt und versucht, meine Aggressionen gewaltfrei abzubauen…

(grösser)
Edit: An alle die denken, das wäre übertrieben: elementarteile.de lesen!

by jesse

xkcd haben mal die Social Networks auf eine Karte gebracht und wenn man etwas genauer hinschaut findet man uns auch darauf :-)