Getting old DOS games working. (DOSBox topics belong in DOSBox areas below, not here).

I wasn't sure where to post this. If it's a problem maybe the admin can move this topic to Dosbox section.

Because it's for DOSBox AND DosEmu2, moved to "PC Emulation".

Ok, i gave up making a Distro for Dosbox. It's too dangerous for me not to accidentally delete your Windows or any other Distro's partition.
What you can do is install a x64 Linux Distro, i recommend Lubuntu https://lubuntu.net and add "Launch_FreeDosEmuBox.sh" to the Autostart applications.
Install Linux only if you know what you are doing!

Download FreeDosEmuBox x64:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/k31gp1kedfs8dtf … eta1fix.tar.bz2

Don't forget auto login:
for LXDM, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LXDM#Autologin
for LightDM, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutoLogin

I thought of a similar idea for PCem last year but as to booting a computer straight into a single PCem configuration with a minimal LibreElec core and the configuration remotely configured by SSH (no gui). The application of this is limited without real disk drives however though (especially when I had ARM SoCs in mind, which PCem doesn't really compile for at this moment)

tl;dr: pi3b = XT/AT/286/386/486

Nope. The Pi3 doesn't have enough snoot to comfortably run DosBox at 486 equivalent speeds.

It runs a little better if you disregard its terrible desktop video driver (akin to using a hacky VESA 1.x driver in Windows), if the dosbox core in retroarch through its EGL backend is any indication..... you can almost push 14,000 cycles on the normal core. and that's not even considering the changes in this.

Wow, how did my search not find this post. I was asking this question just the other day. (DOSBox as a Linux Distro)

I'll have to compare OPs method to this (https://github.com/superjamie/lazyweb/wiki/Boot-to-DOSBox), but if your ISO saves me some work I'll gladly switch to this method.

Have you considered not using an x64 kernel? I doubt it matters much for speed, and I would think there are plenty 32bit cpu's that could run DosBox and simple emulators at acceptable speeds.

Hi BinaryDemon!

You should be able to run my "Launch_FreeDosEmuBox.sh" script even on Tinycore Linux x64.
I'm worried about not to delete my or anyone else Partition by accident so perhaps you can make an ISO which works.
x86 in some ways is obsolete, Arch Linux even decided to drop it. And in my package there is DosEmu2 included which runs Quake1 with 1024x768 resolution in 60FPS.
Maybe we can make a Dosbox Distro together?

And i discoverd that on my PC with WINE https://www.winehq.org/ Windows Dosbox runs 3 times faster than native Linux. Can someone validate this? (And why does this happen?)

I'm probably the wrong person to help, I'm still very new to linux. Just excited that others are working on similar ideas. I think I'm going to attempt a combination of what has been done so far. I'm interesting in getting the LIVECD image working so you don't need to install on a harddisk, but you still could if you want to.

Looking at the other instructions: I don't understand they put the C:\Games in the persist user space, anything in those directories should have nothing to do with the OS. I want to try and have a 2nd partition on the flash drive which is fat32 (to simplify adding games also without the 4gb total persistence size restriction), Linux will mount that before launching DOSBox, I dont think LiveCD's have an issue reading or writing to external media so saving games and other minor dos config files changes should save correctly.

If I get that working, I will surely attempt to make an ISO to save others some headache. 😀

Not the Solution to your Questions but:
I once tried the same with own OS and DosBox,but it gave me so many headaches, that i just decided to install Windows 2000 and make DosBox autostart.