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Recompiling old DOS game (polanie1) under linux using DOSbox lib's

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First post, by baqs

Posted on 2006-12-20, 18:16

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I have very slow, and old computer (Pentium MMX 166 mHz, 64 MB RAM, s3virge graphic card). I also like a very old dos game "Polanie I". It's system requierments is very low, and dosbox aupporst it, but for me it still works worse then under DOS. I have it's source code, and this creates an idea in my mind. I want to recompile it udner linux to not need emutale it. I dont want rewrite evry it's call to a dos library, beacouse it's a lot of work, and it's boring. And the idea is to copy some headers from dosbox, change it a little, and include to the source code of "polanie" instead of original dos libraries.

What do you think about this idea? Is it possible? And how to do it 😀 ?

Reply 1 of 3, by bugs_bugger

Posted on 2006-12-20, 18:33

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Did you try Dosemu before? As it only virualizes the CPU, it might be the right thing for you. Recompliling sounds difficult to me, as there might be too many functions rather hardcoded than implemented in libraries.

Reply 2 of 3, by DosFreak

Posted on 2006-12-20, 18:36

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If you insist on using an old computer then why not install MS-DOS on that computer?

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Reply 3 of 3, by baqs

Posted on 2006-12-20, 18:44

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If you insist on using an old computer then why not install MS-DOS on that computer?

Beacouse i'm a programmer and i need linux. I'm also lerning a selinux security system, and it won't work under DOS 😀

Did you try Dosemu before? As it only virualizes the CPU, it might be the right thing for you. Recompliling sounds difficult to me, as there might be too many functions rather hardcoded than implemented in libraries.

I havn't tried dosemu yet. The recompiling souds won't be difficult, beacouse i could only rewrite the header in game which do all that sounds (hmm... i'm not sure, but it can be only system-beeper sounds 😜 ). I'll check the dosemu sourcecode and documentation to see is it possible or not.

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