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. …

Everyone is recommending SSD's. You are asking for an opinion but it looks like you are already set on mechanical drives. Just buy a mechanical drive already. Why do you need anyone to convince you othewise?

Dosbox Game Launcher version 0.83 (with Java 7) works well in Windows XP. If you go to the DBGL website's download section , click the slider "Also show previous versions" and you can get v0.83. Dosbox itself runs in XP. Check out my XP retro time machine here , or this user's r unning Dosbox ECE. …

Wanted to go back to playing the games that I used to play back in the day. 1980 - 1995 is the timeframe so definiteley DOS and C64. Had the C64 and 128 way back, then moved to 286, 386... There's just no way I can justify the prices of vintage machines today. Recently I got a hold of a couple of …

> What I'm driving at is are the games really incomplete as compared to the ones bought. Sorry for the noob question. Yes. The versions included in the game packs usually include the first episode (out of three, or six) of the complete game. That's how it usually worked back in the day, you …

This is just an excellent piece of work. Everything works so far on an elderly Dell Optiplex running Arch Linux. I have a question on the GamePackArchives. Some are Demo, Freeware and Shareware. Are these accurate? If its a Shareware, is it still available for purchase? I see that Heretic can be …