KNOPPIX 7.6.0 and running old games
I found a neat use for the latest Knoppix, i.e. running old DOS games... https://ideas2learn.wordpress.com/notes_gaming/ have fun! Daniel Villarreal
On 11/29/2015 12:11 PM, Daniel Villarreal wrote:
I found a neat use for the latest Knoppix, i.e. running old DOS games...
It's long been possible to run DOS apps on Linux. I have a game called "Railroad Tychoon", from back in the '80s. While it runs fine, because it was intended for old DOS boxes, where VGA was the latest & greatest, it only uses a small portion of my display. I guess, for some reason, the developers didn't foresee 1080p resolution on computer monitors. ;-)
I never played Railroad Tycoon, but there's an open source version called OpenTTD and seems to be in active development. On 29 November 2015 at 12:28, James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:
On 11/29/2015 12:11 PM, Daniel Villarreal wrote:
I found a neat use for the latest Knoppix, i.e. running old DOS games...
It's long been possible to run DOS apps on Linux. I have a game called "Railroad Tychoon", from back in the '80s. While it runs fine, because it was intended for old DOS boxes, where VGA was the latest & greatest, it only uses a small portion of my display. I guess, for some reason, the developers didn't foresee 1080p resolution on computer monitors. ;-) --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 08:44:00AM -0500, Tim Tisdall wrote:
I never played Railroad Tycoon, but there's an open source version called OpenTTD and seems to be in active development.
No that is Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Very different game and came out a fair bit later. Railroad Tycoon only had trains, not multiple types of transportation that OpenTTD has (planes, boats, trucks, busses, trains, etc). -- Len Sorensen
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