Hi folks. I am running the latest version of DBGL on Linux Mint 21.2. My kids each have their own Linux laptops and my intention is to make it easy for them to launch various educational and adventure games. The issue I am having is consistently getting results from Moby Games. For example, I am trying to get it to pull information for this game: https://www.mobygames.com/game/1199/freddi-fi … ing-kelp-seeds/
But, regardless of how I search, it always returns no result:
Information: MobyGames returned no results for "Freddi" !
Information: MobyGames returned no results for "Freddi Fish" !
Information: MobyGames returned no results for "Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds" !
Any tips for getting it to pull the information? Thank you.
Hi snoad,
You don't get any results because this is not a DOS game. By default, DBGL filters out all results which are not either DOS or PC BOOTER. If you want to change that, look in File->Preferences, Web Information Archives tab, last field.
Ronald
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Statistics: Posted by DosFreak — 2024-03-17, 16:30
Statistics: Posted by SIM — 2024-03-17, 15:19
How does one set up DBGL to work with these DOSBoxes?
It has something to do with how Flatpaks are sandboxed. Use the non flatpak version of Dosbox-Staging. Download, uncompress and point to it in the config. Dosbox-X does not provide a portable version for Linux but you can compile it yourself.
Edit: have you tried entering the flatpak command on the executable line?
I was able to get DOSBox-X to work but had no luck at all with DOSBox-staging.
For DOSBox-X I created a script named dosbox-x and made it executable:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=dosbox-x com.dosbox_x.DOSBox-X $@
...and used that as the executable.
I used ~/.var/app/com.dosbox_x.DOSBox-X/config/dosbox-x for the config file location.
Statistics: Posted by Calab — 2024-03-17, 14:38
But, regardless of how I search, it always returns no result:
Information: MobyGames returned no results for "Freddi" !
Information: MobyGames returned no results for "Freddi Fish" !
Information: MobyGames returned no results for "Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds" !
Any tips for getting it to pull the information? Thank you.
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How does one set up DBGL to work with these DOSBoxes?
It has something to do with how Flatpaks are sandboxed. Use the non flatpak version of Dosbox-Staging. Download, uncompress and point to it in the config. Dosbox-X does not provide a portable version for Linux but you can compile it yourself.
Edit: have you tried entering the flatpak command on the executable line?
Statistics: Posted by Cameo5767 — 2024-03-12, 13:58
I have created a script to start each DOSBox and it works from the CLI. The scripts are in /usr/bin, named "dosbox-x" and "dosbox-staging". The script for DOSBox-X looks like this:
#!/bin/sh
flatpak run com.dosbox_x.DOSBox-X $@
If I try to find my DOSBox installations in DBGL I am told that the installations cannot be found.
I have tried to manually add these two DOSBoxes to DBGL but it just doesn't work. What I am entering for DOSBox-X is as follows:
Title: DOSBox-x
Path: /usr/bin/
Executable: dosbox-x
Config File: ~/.config/dosbox-x.conf
Entries for DOSBox-staging are similar.
How does one set up DBGL to work with these DOSBoxes?
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Statistics: Posted by bill2reg — 2024-03-11, 19:47
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- Dual Monitors under DOS
http://www.asm32.com/ (Click on shareware link)
http://www.rdrop.com/users/boothby/SHARE.HTM
... please be so kind as to attach them to a post in How to get a secondary monochrome monitor working in DOS and how to connect it to a modern display? and continue any further discussion on the matter there or in like posts? TIA
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Statistics: Posted by Tom.. — 2024-03-04, 21:56
Gives an example of installing a multi-disc game :
imgmount a: "Alone In The Dark [1992] [3.5] [1 of 4].ima" "Alone In The Dark [1992] [3.5] [2 of 4].ima" "Alone In The Dark [1992] [3.5] [3 of 4].ima" "Alone In The Dark [1992] [3.5] [4 of 4].ima" -t floppy
Changing floppy disk image via shortcut CTRL - F4
Thanks a lot!
I managed to install many old games with this method!
Now I have Dune2, X-com 1-2 and other shinies installed and works perfectly!
There is only one game I cannot made to install => Raptor - A call of the shadows
Not the method you shared nor anything else could made it install so far. Full, registered version should it be...
I am not sure if this is legal or not:
Can anyone help me to install the game (I send the zip archive) then zip it installed and send me?
After installation the directory and it's place means nothing, thanks for DosBox's mounting procedure.
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