Subj : Max/DOS in dosemu
To   : Ryan de Laplante
From : andrew clarke
Date : Sun Apr 29 2007 07:37 am

Sat 2007-04-28 15:46, Ryan de Laplante (1:229/1394) wrote to All:

 RdL> Has anyone tried running the DOS version of Maximus, Squish, BNU
 RdL> and door games inside of dosemu or dosbox?

A few months ago I had a quick play with Telix running under DOSBox.  From 
memory, it worked OK, but would drop characters occasionally, which caused 
Zmodem to fail.  There were probably some configuration settings to fix that.

DOSBox can be set up so it can listen on a TCP port and redirect data to its 
virtual COM port.  In dosbox.conf:

serial1=modem listenport:5000

If you can somehow get the Linux version of Maximus to make an outbound TCP 
connection, you could tell it to start DOSBox and run the DOS door game then 
connect to localhost on the port DOSBox is listening on.

Or you could just run the DOS version of Maximus under DOSBox, and put up with 
whatever limitations it has compared to the Linux version.

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