Works well.
If you use a Performance Edition. Drivers needed to be installed manually using the Windows 2000 drivers for everything except the sound drivers.
Just to point out I do have a valid Windows key and am only running the one copy.
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I wanted all the software that was better on the linux system. Particularly xmame, xmess and ScummVM. I also wanted to be ble to play many of the original DOS games at full speed. Sites like abandonia and Home Of The Underdogs has lifted my desire up to a frenzy.
My plan was to install Debain linux onto a large partition, leave some space on the drive, then install MS-DOS 7.10.
Easy Peasy.
Debian is *very* easy to find.
Search for MS-DOS 7.10 on torrent sites, or just google for it. Download the CD ISO image and burn it to disk.
I also used FreeDos CD ISO image.
I installed Debian using the guide above. I used manual partitioning and set up a 3.9 Gig partition with about a 350 Meg swap partition. /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2/.
I then set up the rest of the space as a vfat partition and set it to be mounted on /dos.
This is from memory. I sadly was not taking notes.
I initially tried just booting up with the disk installed. Booted up fine. Told me it could not find any suitable disks to install on. I dropped down to a dos shell. It dropped me at the A: drive, which I suspect was some kind of RAM drive. The D: drive was the CD. All the files on the CD seemed to be compressed and not really accessible.
The A: drive did not contain the fdisk or format commands.
I booted up with FreeDOS in the CD. And installed it. I can’t remember if I actually had to drop to the shell and go for the FDISK followed by FORMAT C:, I may well have done. The FreeDOS 1.0 release works very well. Is currently what I am using. Sound card was awful to set up though. Nick the relevant lines from my autoexec.bat file
I chose NOT to overwrite the Master Boot Record.
I booted into Debian and changed the /boot/grub/menu.lst to let me boot into DOS.
title DOS rootnoverify (hd0,2) chainloader +1 makeactive
It booted fine. For some reason I didn’t like FreeDOS though. I *wanted* MSDOS 7.10.
Booted again. This time I ignored the message about failing the drive check. Just skip it and install to C:\DOS.
Install all the supplemental stuff. Except the chinese add on.
Away you go.
Module Size Used by
ipv6 229892 6
ds 17796 4
af_packet 20872 2
parport_pc 33348 0
parport 37320 1 parport_pc
pcspkr 3816 0
rtc 12088 0
8139too 23936 0
8139cp 19072 0
mii 4864 2 8139too,8139cp
yenta_socket 19200 1
pcmcia_core 63028 2 ds,yenta_socket
joydev 9536 0
snd_ymfpci 58180 0
snd_ac97_codec 59268 1 snd_ymfpci
usbhid 28864 0
snd_pcm_oss 48168 0
snd_mixer_oss 16640 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 85384 2 snd_ymfpci,snd_pcm_oss
snd_opl3_lib 9728 1 snd_ymfpci
snd_timer 23300 3 snd_ymfpci,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
snd_hwdep 9092 1 snd_opl3_lib
snd_page_alloc 11144 2 snd_ymfpci,snd_pcm
gameport 4736 1 snd_ymfpci
snd_mpu401_uart 7296 1 snd_ymfpci
snd_rawmidi 23204 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 7944 2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd 50660 11 snd_ymfpci,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 9824 1 snd
uhci_hcd 29328 0
usbcore 104164 4 usbhid,uhci_hcd
tsdev 7168 0
mousedev 9996 1
evdev 9088 0
capability 4872 0
commoncap 7168 1 capability
psmouse 17800 0
ide_cd 38176 0
cdrom 35740 1 ide_cd
ext3 109544 1
jbd 54552 1 ext3
ide_generic 1664 0
piix 12448 1
ide_disk 16768 3
ide_core 125028 4 ide_cd,ide_generic,piix,ide_disk
unix 26036 80
font 8576 0
vesafb 6688 0
cfbcopyarea 3840 1 vesafb
cfbimgblt 3200 1 vesafb
cfbfillrect 3712 1 vesafb
# XF86Config-4 (XFree86 X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page.
# (Type “man XF86Config-4″ at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xfree86 package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xfree86
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following commands as root:
#
# cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.custom
# md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 >/var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum
# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
Section “Files”
FontPath “unix/:7100″ # local font server
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
FontPath “/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc”
FontPath “/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic”
FontPath “/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled”
FontPath “/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1″
FontPath “/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID”
FontPath “/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo”
FontPath “/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi”
FontPath “/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi”
EndSection
Section “Module”
Load “GLcore”
Load “bitmap”
Load “dbe”
Load “ddc”
Load “dri”
Load “extmod”
Load “freetype”
Load “glx”
Load “int10″
Load “record”
Load “speedo”
Load “type1″
Load “vbe”
EndSection
Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Generic Keyboard”
Driver “keyboard”
Option “CoreKeyboard”
Option “XkbRules” “xfree86″
Option “XkbModel” “pc105″
Option “XkbLayout” “uk”
EndSection
Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Configured Mouse”
Driver “mouse”
Option “CorePointer”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option “Protocol” “ImPS/2″
Option “Emulate3Buttons” “true”
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5″
EndSection
Section “Device”
Identifier “NeoMagic Corporation NM2200 [MagicGraph 256AV]“
Driver “neomagic”
EndSection
Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Generic Monitor”
HorizSync 28-38
VertRefresh 43-72
Option “DPMS”
EndSection
Section “Screen”
Identifier “Default Screen”
Device “NeoMagic Corporation NM2200 [MagicGraph 256AV]“
Monitor “Generic Monitor”
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection “Display”
Depth 1
Modes “800×600″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 4
Modes “800×600″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 8
Modes “800×600″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 15
Modes “800×600″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 16
Modes “800×600″
EndSubSection
SubSection “Display”
Depth 24
Modes “800×600″
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Default Layout”
Screen “Default Screen”
InputDevice “Generic Keyboard”
InputDevice “Configured Mouse”
EndSection
Section “DRI”
Mode 0666
EndSection
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX – 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (AGP disabled) (rev 03)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
Memory at (32-bit, prefetchable)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Neomagic Corporation NM2200 [MagicGraph 256AV] (rev 20) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 831b
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 128, IRQ 9
Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at fe800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Memory at fed00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities:
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
I/O ports at fcf0 [size=16]
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
I/O ports at fcc0 [size=32]
0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
0000:00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-744B [DS-1S Audio Controller] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 831b
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
Memory at fecf8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
I/O ports at fc40 [size=64]
I/O ports at fcec [size=4]
Capabilities:
0000:00:0c.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c478 (rev 03)
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 831b
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 9
Memory at 10000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=04, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 10400000-107ff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 10800000-10bff000
I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff
I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
0000:00:0c.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c478 (rev 03)
Subsystem: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 831b
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 9
Memory at 10001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=08, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 10c00000-10fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 11000000-113ff000
I/O window 0: 00004800-000048ff
I/O window 1: 00004c00-00004cff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
0000:01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: Surecom Technology: Unknown device 0428
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9
I/O ports at 4000 [size=256]
Memory at 10800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Capabilities:
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I saw it cheap on eBay for only 99 GBP from icex plus a wee bit to boost the RAM.
I wanted to build a system purely for emulating older systems. 8 bit concoles and the old home computers, zx spectrum and commodore 64, as well as playing Scumm games.
I also thought I would try emulating DOS and running other classic games using dosbox. Turned out I did not read the man page for dosbox well enough. You still need a fairly powerful machine (Over 1 GHz) to emulate a very old PC. I may just purchase a bigger hard drive and simply install DOS on a partition.
Intel Pentium 266mhz MMX processor # Mine was actually a Pentium 2 300 Mhz ! Whoo Hoo :) 64MB RAM (sdRAM pc66mhz) # mines is 192 MB RAM PC100 4.3 GB hd # The drive in my machine was 6.4 GB, Apparently BIOS limit is 30 GB 12.1" TFT screen - 800x600 resolution Integral DVD/CD rom UK keyboard with touchpad # A very poor touchpad Soundblaster compatible sound 2x type II PCMCIA (cardbus) slots serial, parallel, PS2, infra red, VGA ports USB port Li-ion battery & charger
I think there ae a few different model revisions of the CF 27. Please tell me if there are any significant differences.
In short. Debian 3.1 no problems. Under an hour.
Right I have had to reinstall from scratch after my dos and win2k experiments. I had some problem with the installer not finding my network card (pcmcia). I had to use the following line to boot the debian installer :
linux26 acpi=off noapic nolapic pci=usepirqmask
I have no idea how many of them are needed.
The linux 2.6 kernel seems to be need to work with the pcmcia slot, if the pci=usepirqmask option is not used the system hangs when I try to use my network card. I think the noapic and nolapic options may be entirely superfluous. I am currently running Puppy Linux with just the pci=usepirqmask option. It works very very well.
A brief guide on how I got them both working on the same system.
I tried using the Dapper Drake release of Ubuntu, it was a no go. The installer hanged. I never actually tried the boot options above, please leave feedback if you have any info.
Here is the final version of Osmose. I will be absent from October 2005, for more than one year, with no possibility to write a single line of code (*cough*). That why i do this final release. Writing this emu was really a funny experience, especially with the help of SMSPOWER guys :-)
Have changed to running Meka on the DOS partition, for that instant gratification. Osmose worked well for the time I used it.
I use dgen to emulate the Sega Genesis (or Mega Drive). As it is easily installed via apt-get. It no longer seems to be supported though so I will include links to other emulators. Feel free to leave comments about how good they are, or are not.
In the bad old days before OS X and cheap Macs, I used Linux. The operating system isn’t exactly known for its wide library of games, so back in ’98 I took the open-source DGen Sega Genesis emulator for Windows and ported it to the SDL library, bringing the joys of Genesis emulation to Linux, FreeBSD, BeOS, and other minority platforms.
Other emulators
Generator – The Sega Genesis Emulator
his is a modified version of Generator by James Ponder based on version 0.35. It is known to work on FreeBSD, NetBSD and Linux.
Have gone over to using generator on the DOS partition.
ZSNES is a Super Nintendo emulator programmed by zsKnight and _Demo_. On April 2, 2001 the ZSNES project was GPL'ed and its source released to the public. It currently runs on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and DOS. Remember that this is a public beta so don't expect this to run on your machine.
ZSNES also runs on DOS. There don’t seem to me and many graphical fripperies, but it works well.
Can play GB and GBC games without any problem. Not quite powerful enough to play GBA games. Not that I tried particularly hard.
Gone over tousing KIGB on the DOS partition. I think it only plays GB/C games.
Fuse is by far the best spectrum emulator I used. You need to do some extra work to get the binaries. Links are provided in the download section.
Fuse – the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator
Fuse (the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator) was originally, and somewhat unsurprisingly, a Spectrum emulator for Unix. However, it has now also been ported to Mac OS X, which may or may not count as a Unix variant depending on your advocacy position.
Have gone over to RealSpec on the DOS partition.
Plays the older games and systems without much trouble. Anything too recent runs into problems. I strongly suggest using AdvanceMenu as a frontend. It makes life much much easier.
[AdvanceMENU http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/menu-readme.html]
AdvanceMENU is a frontend for AdvanceMAME, MAME™, MESS, RAINE and any other emulator.
I am about to start using Gargoyle as it is so pretty. From the site:
"Gargoyle cares about typography! In this computer age of typographical poverty, where horrible fonts, dazzling colors, and inadequate white space is God, Gargoyle dares to rebel!"
I was also using zag though this requires Java
Zag 1.06, a fully featured implementation of Glulx 2.0.0 in Java, by Jon Zeppieri. Requires Sun JRE 1.4 or better. Archive includes source and compiled class files.
Work on the original gargoyle has stopped. It is beng continued here:
I currently can not get it to run on Debian stable. There again I have not tried that hard :)
You may also want to see the Debian Toughbook.
Tech details for the machine can be found on the Debian Toughbook page.
Because it boots up in a few seconds and has lots of oldish emulators and games ‘freely’ available for it.
MSDOS 7.10
Nice and easy. FDISK followed by FORMAT C:\ then install.
I tend to use FreeDOS now. Works very well.
A brief guide on how I got them both working on the same system.
I wiped the hard drive and installed Windows 98 SE. Post install configuration was difficult. I used the Win 95 drivers. Got them to work eventually. I may post a guide but probably not.
Following this I installed FreeDOS which detected the Win 98 installation and gave me a nice boot menu to select between the two.
RockNES 8 Bit Nintendo Emulator
Seems to do the job. Still actively maintained as of March 2006. Have not really tested it very much.
MEKA is a multi-machine emulator for MS-DOS, MS-Windows and maybe GNU/Linux. The following machines are supported by MEKA:
* Sega Game 1000 (SG-1000) * Sega Computer 3000 (SC-3000) * Sega Super Control Station (SF-7000) * Sega Mark III (+ FM Unit) * Sega Master System (SMS) * Sega Game Gear (GG) * ColecoVision (COLECO) * Othello Multivision (OMV)
I like this one. Very nice setup. The updates seem to be coming a bit slower.
ZSNES is a Super Nintendo emulator programmed by zsKnight and _Demo_. On April 2, 2001 the ZSNES project was GPL'ed and its source released to the public. It currently runs on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and DOS. Remember that this is a public beta so don't expect this to run on your machine.
Still actively maintained. It runs the Starfox 2 beta quite happily.
Have just downloaded it. Seems fine so far.
RealSpectrum is intended as a high-fidelity Spectrum emulator with no compromises. It reproduces the Spectrum hardware with a previousely unseen accuracy and it has been designed to support the most advanced features for the most realistic audiovisual experience. You will be using the closest thing to a real Spectrum machine :-)
Works very well. Nice menu gui setup to make life a little simpler
Still maintained. Essential for all those Commodore 64 classics.
Project seems to be dead. After getting the roms have had it up and running but not realy tested it. Have no idea how useful or fast it is in practice.
http://www.atari.st/pacifist/ Download From Here]
No longer updated. As with the amiga emulator tested it enough to get it up and running but no futher. Reuires TOS images. You know where to look !
DEVICE=C:\DOS71\HIMEM.SYS DEVICE=C:\DOS71\EMM386.EXE NOEMS I=B000-B7FF BUFFERS=20,0 FILES=20 DOS=UMB LASTDRIVE=D FCBS=4,0 DOS=HIGH DEVICE=C:\DOS71\ECHO.SYS W/E/L/C/O/M/E /T/O MS-DOS 7.10... DEVICE=C:\DOS71\ECHO.SYS C/O/P/Y/R/I/G/H/T M/I/C/R/O/S/O/F/T C/O/R/P. A/L/L /R/I/G/H/T/S /R/E/S/E/R/V/E/D. REM DEVICEHIGH /L:1,17408 =C:\DOS71\SETVER.EXE DEVICEHIGH /L:0;1,8112 /S =C:\DOS71\POWER.EXE REM DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS71\VIDE-CDD.SYS /D:IDE-CD DEVICEHIGH /L:1,18112 =C:\DOS71\DISPLAY.SYS CON=(,,1) COUNTRY=001,437,C:\DOS71\COUNTRY.SYS SHELL=COMMAND.COM /P /E:640 STACKS=9,256 SET PATH=C:\DOS71;..;C:\DOSOFT\YAMAHA
@ECHO OFF PROMPT $P$G SET DIRCMD=/4 MODE CON RATE=32 DELAY=1 REM MODE CON CP PREPARE=((437)EGA.CPI) REM MODE CON CP SELECT=437 REM KEYB US,,KEYBOARD.SYS LH /L:1,2912 KILLER DOSKEY REM DOSLFN /Z:C:\DOS71\CP437UNI.TBL REM MSCDEX /D:IDE-CD REM C:\DOSOFT\DVU\SETVMODE.COM 103 REM SHARE NLSFUNC LH /L:0;1,16400 /S SMARTDRV LH /L:0;1,3328 /S CTMOUSE /3 /P /N REM For compatiblity purpose: CTMOUSE > NUL ECHO. REM For locking volumes to enable "direct disk access": CALL LOCKDRV BREAK ON LFNFOR ON ECHO Now you are in MS-DOS 7.10 prompt. Type 'HELP' for help. ECHO. SET CTSYN=C:\SOUND SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E MODE:0 SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6 C:\DOSOFT\YAMAHA\LOADTSR.BAT PATH=C:\DOS71;..;C:\WINDOWS;C:\DOS71\norton;C:\FW
Modules using memory below 1 MB:
Name Total Conventional Upper Memory -------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- SYSTEM 25,488 (25K) 9,568 (9K) 15,920 (16K) HIMEM 1,120 (1K) 1,120 (1K) 0 (0K) EMM386 4,320 (4K) 4,320 (4K) 0 (0K) POWER 80 (0K) 80 (0K) 0 (0K) KILLER 400 (0K) 400 (0K) 0 (0K) DOSKEY 3,968 (4K) 3,968 (4K) 0 (0K) NLSFUNC 3,872 (4K) 3,872 (4K) 0 (0K) SMARTDRV 29,120 (28K) 29,120 (28K) 0 (0K) CTMOUSE 3,328 (3K) 3,328 (3K) 0 (0K) POWER 4,672 (5K) 0 (0K) 4,672 (5K) DISPLAY 18,064 (18K) 0 (0K) 18,064 (18K) IFSHLP 2,864 (3K) 0 (0K) 2,864 (3K) COMMAND 7,424 (7K) 0 (0K) 7,424 (7K) Free 645,168 (630K) 597,328 (583K) 47,840 (47K)
Memory Summary:
Type of Memory Total Used Free ---------------- ----------- ----------- ----------- Conventional 653,312 55,984 597,328 Upper 96,784 48,944 47,840 Reserved 0 0 0 Extended (XMS) 200,115,696 2,541,040 197,574,656 ---------------- ----------- ----------- ----------- Total memory 200,865,792 2,645,968 198,219,824 Total under 1 MB 750,096 104,928 645,168 Largest executable program size 597,104 (583K) Largest free upper memory block 45,280 (44K) MS-DOS is resident in the high memory area.
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