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Dangerous Dave in GNU/Linux

13 Feb 2008
Posted by stylesen

Thanks to krish (mukt.in) who gave me a hint on playing dos games inside a GNU/Linux box. Now am able to play Dangerous Dave in my Debian Etch box with the help of 'dosbox'.

I ve played this game in my 6th standard in the school computer labs. This was the first game which attracted me, and still today am very fond of this game. Some of the other games I would love to play are Prince of Persia, Pacman. But I don't want to use 'Doze' for playing these games. 'dosbox' is the best alternative, to play these games I guess.

See a screenshot in the attachment.

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Wow this game is awesome. I

Wow this game is awesome. I have never thought that there is an ability to play games in Dos mode. Now I will be able to have a rest from my work at least for 10 minutes playing this game on Linux. Thanks for publishing it here and I will be waiting for more nice news from you in the nearest future.

Sincerely,

Mike Trunton

Posted by MikeT on Dec 11th, 2009 at 12:51 am.

my fav game too

thanks anna for remaining Dave!(played in 9 std)
i have heard of dosbox but never tried ..here is nice chance :-)
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/U4elQ_VCxNBBxhWchwQ76A?feat=directlink
snap @ Hardy Heron..1up

Posted by Rajesh Pandia on Sep 14th, 2009 at 1:06 am.

I am a John Romero Fan !

I am the maintainer of the opensolaris dosbox port. Guess why :-)

Posted by Ananth Shrinivas on Feb 19th, 2008 at 12:45 am.

Lovely

So your main part of maintaining goes in testing all the available games in dosbox ;)

Posted by stylesen on Feb 20th, 2008 at 11:43 am.