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I’d like to focus this time on one special site, which goes so well together with Windows game emulation on Linux that it’s frequently mentioned at WineHQ itself: Home of the Underdogs . “Underdogs”, as it’s commonly referred to, is a site devoted to archiving the forgotten video games of history, from the earliest day to titles as recent as last year, which deserve better recognition. You’re almost guaranteed to find something interesting that you’ve never heard of before. There’s games that just didn’t sell well, games that were released by an obscure company with no promotion, games that were produced by a company that went under, and all sorts of odd bits and pieces. Downloading free abandonware makes for some fun Wine tasting. On a random romp where I just grabbed whatever looked interesting and tried it out, I encountered these gems: Sanitarium While I have yet to have the game go to the second stage without crashing, I might get it fixed. This game is an adventure runner...

DOSBOX RUN DOS APPLICATIONS AND GAMES IN UBUNTU LINUX sudo apt-get install dosbox (Your can use Synaptic Package Manager and search for dosbox) After Installation you can make a folder xxxxx in your home directory (eg: $mkdir mydos) copy your favorite dos programs and games like Turboc, dave, digger etc in this directory Now you can run dosbox by typing dosbox in a terminal or by select it from menu You will get a small dos window with Z:\> prompt in Z prompt type the following Z:\> mount c /home/xxx/mydos This command for mounting your dos directory to C Drive (in my case my dos files are in /home/xxx/mydos ) Now You are ready for running your dos programms Z:\> c: ( change drive to c:) Z:\> dir (this will list your dos files placed in /home/xxx/mydos) if ther is our old famous digger game Z:\> digger and Enjoy it. More Topics : Themes for Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Edit NTFS partitions on Linux (Ubuntu, Debian ...)... Who is Linux Torvalds? Origin: Famou...