Thanks for the detailed replies DosFreak. I took time to read some stuffs about Dosbox on web. The one thing that I discovered as you may already knew about is that programs like Dosbox requires substantially more CPU power and this greatly affect the software running in the emulator. I also read …

Thanks for the replies hal-9000 & DosFreak. I simply have the old Pentium lying around so it is a waste to chuck it out. Actually, it runs the X-COM games fine, no problem with speed - when it was originally running under Win98. But then I decided to chuck out Win98 alltogether so I could run under …

Addendum: After tinkering around, I managed to get UFO to work by running the BAT file "UFOCD" from the D: cdrom drive in the DosBox emulator. (1) It worked, but it seems to be running slow in Debian GNU/Linux compared to when I ran it on Win98 platform a couple of years back, on the same PC. (2) I …

Hi all, interesting! I am running GNU/Linux Debian on Pentium x86 PC. I came across DosBox as it is in Debian rep, so naturally I tried it out for first time tonight. I have the original X-COM: UFO Enemy Unknown game, one of them on a CD diskette. So far in the DosBox emulator, I managed to mount …