So, I Installed Dosbox... Now What?

[dougeeebear]

I have installed dosbox_0.6.3-3_arm.ipk and there I am.
I know there have been many discussions about Dosbox, but I don't find anything that shows me how to actually use it.

Here's what I would like to do...

I want to be able to use a small Dos shell program called Valet, a Dos editor called Qedit, and the Dos version of Quicken... all of which are small in size, and do not use a lot of system resources.

I think I need a Dos image from somewhere, but I am at a loss as to what to get and where to get it from.
Also, after I get it, how would I copy programs to it and be able to run them?
I want to be able to use space on my SD card and not internal flash.

I'm just not able to understand this at all, so if anyone could walk me through the steps I would really appreciate it.

My info is in my sig.

Thanks, Doug

[lardman]

From the dosbox website, it doesn't look like you need a DOS image.

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php

might be a good starting point. I see you need to start the dosbox application and then mount a linux directory to a DOS drive letter. Scroll down to the bottom of the "Basic Setup and Installation of DosBox" page and it gives a howto for Ubuntu. I'd try something similar to the last few lines of that.


Si

P.S. I've never used dosbox btw

[dougeeebear]

Thanks for the link, lardman.
That info looks promising.

[dougeeebear]

I guess the dosbox ipk from meanie's feed is for the C3000 and C3100 only.
It doesn't seem to want to load up on my C1000.

I get this message in the terminal when I type in dosbox

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/user/local/bin/dosbox: no such file or directoryeven though the file does exist.

I also have libstdc6_1.2.2_arm.ipk installed as per meanie's instructions.

[baallrog]

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So, I Installed Dosbox... Now What?

hum ... format c:
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The only difference between C1000 and C3X00 is the harddrive ... (and the size of the flash for one model but i don't remember which exactly ...)

So if the ipk is made for C3X00 I think you can use it for your C1000. I have a C1000 and i use all the ipk I found ! I have no problem.

It seems like the /user/local/bin/dosbox doesn't exist, but check if it exist in another directory : shell>find / -name dosbox

perhaps it is not in the right directory !

[njefferies]

I have the same problem (on Cacko though)

From another thread it appears that it needs meanies zgcc image to be mounted to overcome some dependencies - haven't tried it yet though!

He's working on a fix but no eta (not that we have any right to expect one or complaiin!).

[dougeeebear]

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This is the part I don't understand.
What is zgcc, where do I get it, and what do I do with it if I did get it?

[dougeeebear]

Ok, I solved the problem and got Dosbox working.
The big problem (I think) might have been a corrupt dosbox ipk file.

You don't need zgcc.

Here's exactly what I did to get it working...

Download dosbox_0.6.3-3_arm.zip and libstdc6_1.2.2_arm.zip from here

These are in zip format so you will have to unzip them before installing.

Install them (I installed libstdc6_1.2.2_arm.ipk first... I don't know if it makes any difference).

Create a Dosbox folder on your SD card.

Enter the following in /usr/local/dosbox/dosbox.conf under [autoexec]
mount c /mnt/card/Dosbox
Add any other dos commands here that you want to be automatically executed when Dosbox is launched.

Copy your Dos programs to /mnt/card/Dosbox.

Click the Dosbox icon to launch Dosbox.

The screen will flicker when Dosbox is launched, so just press the Home button once.

Run your Dos program.

To exit Dosbox, press Shift + Ctrl + Cancel

Additional information is available here

Many thanks go out to Meanie for making it possible to run Dosbox on the zaurus.