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  From: Richard Webb                     Dec-09-07 02:40:48
  To:   all                              Dec-08-07 21:18:32
  Subj: linux dos emulators for bink/max/squish anyone?
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Below is a forwarded message from a previous discussion on DOS Box.

You can set up virtual modems in DOS Box, and there're a number of Linux
ports (FreeBSD, Fedora, Gentoo).

You can also use VMware. 

* Original Area: MUFFIN
* Original From: andrew clarke (1:343/41)
* Original To  : Ryan de Laplante (1:343/41)

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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