How To Download Dosbox On Linux Mint !LINK!
Mathilda Haakinson
I'm using DOSBox 0.74, which works properly and can successfully mount a "c" drive. However, I don't know how to mount a dvd drive. I'm trying to install Star Control 3 from a disk so that I can play it with DOSBox, but I can't mount the "d" drive. I've tried mount d /media/cdrom0 -t cdrom which -auto-mount-a-drive-in-dosbox.html claimed would work. I've looked at but I didn't understand what exactly it was saying.
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As an aside, have you tried from a terminal
dpkg --add-architecture i386
apt-get install dosbox:i386
(both of which will probably have to be run as sudo if you can't log in as root)
That might be a way for you to easily get the 32-bit package of dosbox
if it works, but you'll probably need to remove the 64-bit version first.
(I've never tried this myself as I've always used a 32-bit distro of Ubuntu and Mint on my 64 bit system, so no guarantees that there won't be any problems.)
Theoretically, you could use dpkg and the --force-depends option to force the install of a .deb file, but it can be a very, very dangerous thing to do. And should definitely not be done lightly. As in potentially breaking your system, or anything that depends on the package that is being replaced. On Ubuntu, I've NEVER used this command, and on Fedora the very few times I've used the equivalent it has been done only for very minor files, and even then with a lot of concern. (And if I were reckless enough to try this, probably remove the file immediately after compiling just to make sure it doesn't cause problems down the line)
And as the dev library lacks the libsdl-sound, libsdl-dev, and pretty much most of their dependencies' 32 bit versions, dosbox might not compile, or might not work right even if you do manage to compile it.
Personally, I'd be tempted to try setting up a bootable USB with a 32-bit distro of Mint if you only needed the 32-bit version of dosbox just for Carmaggedon. Though you'd probably want to put as many of the files, espcially the game files, on the hard drive instead of the USB drive as the system can be a little slow if it needs to load files on USB.
Though I've had problems using more recent versions of Mint with certain usb creators, and think that I had to use UNetbootin to create a persistent image.
I hope you managed to run your favourite dos game after installing dosbox in Ubuntu and other distros. DOSBox is one of the coolest pieces of software you can use to run any program, such as Turbo C and others.
Please note that dosbox.conf is never manipulated in any way by DBGL, but DBGL does provide a button for launching a text-editor so you can manually edit the file. Changing the dosbox.conf settings is generally not recommended since its defaults are wisely chosen.But system-specific settings - such as the output setting - may be changed from the default if that works better for a particular videodriver/platform combination.
Upon running the profile, DOSBox is started with dosbox.conf as its 'base' settings file, together with [ID].conf containing overrides and autoexec commands to run the game, like so:
DOSBox-0.74-3\DOSBox.exe -conf DOSBox-0.74-3\dosbox.conf -conf profiles\15.conf
DBGL supports setting custom environment variables to globally override certain DOSBox settings, such as dosbox_sdl_output=openglnb or sdl_video_centered=1.
DBGL can log your actions.
DBGL can export your list of games to a file, such as a plain TXT file, a basic .CSV or a fancy HTML page.
DBGL is written in Java. It uses SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit) for GUI rendering. The profile tiled layout is rendered using a special widgetcalled Nebula Gallery. Gif images are loaded using Kevin Weiner's GifDecoder (modified).DOSBox configuration data is stored in .conf files making it possible to start a profile without even using DBGL (dosbox -conf dosbox.conf -conf profiles\lemmings.conf). DBGL configuration settings are stored in settings.conf.All other data is stored in a single human-readable database (db/database.script) using HSQLDB.For reading the contents of ISO files and CUE/BIN file pairs, it makes use of the Loopy library (modified).FAT disk images are processed using Fat32-lib (modified).Communication with RESTful web services is handled using Jersey 2.To conclude, DBGL also uses commons-io, commons-lang and commons-text from the Apache Commons collection of general purpose libraries.
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