I don't think we need sn extra Linux Dosbox section.

Yeah, I've always wondered that...why did we drop the talk about arcade emulation? Wait..why was there arcade emulation talk in rhe first place? Did dosbox use to emulate sone home consoles? Or what? Or was that just remnissance of an old section of the Very Old Games On New Systems original boards?

There is the "Console & Arcade Emulation" forum, but I have no idea why the empty original Arcade Emulation has not been deleted. It is a broken redirect, not a forum. As to a Linux, I don't see a need, either. After all, neither Windows nor Mac have their own sections.

Fixed the redirect. Thanks.

The problem with arcade emulation is that you can't do it without ROM's and ROM's are illegal. Console emulation also crosses that line so it probably shouldn't be allowed, either. Console emulation is actually worse because it not only requires game ROM's like arcade emulation, but also dumps of the ROM chips found in the consoles themselves. I think having these sections only encourages discussion of where to find illegal ROM's, whether that discussion be open or more covertly through PM's and shouldn't be encouraged.

Linux emulation is, well.........who emulates Linux for playing games anyway?

The arcade section was rather empty, so it got merged with the console section, hence the name Consoles and arcade.
I left the old section there, as I didn't want to break any links.
When upgrading the board, I stuck with the same idea and it was my intention to redirect arcada to the combined forum. Obviously this failed, but thanks to report of collector, this has been repaired.

The board could be removed, but I don't see emulating Linux as a very good replacement.

For what it is worth, boards are not added because one is removed... Just look at the recent addition of the SoftMPU board.

leileilol wrote:

Linux emulation is, well.........who emulates Linux for playing games anyway?

I think a couple of games on my list (less than 5? I'd have to check) don't run in modern Windows or in Windows run in a VM but they do run using Wine in a VM.

It wouldn't be worth a seperate forum just for this unless Microsoft decides to drop backwards compatibility.

Just to reiterate if my post was not clear - I was suggesting to add a section for help with Dosbox issues running in Linux environment (and not about emulating Linux).

And also would like to know if the following section should continue remaining there :

It's an empty label. Or a non-functional label in other words, (other than to redirect to another with a similar title description, which is situated just above this title) taking up that space. Perhaps this row can be deleted?