Subj : Re: TradeWars 2002 in Dosemu on Linux
To   : Zero Reader
From : apam
Date : Mon Jun 06 2022 11:27 am

 ZR> I managed to get TW2002 running on my Mystic board with dosemu2 this
 ZR> morning. I had to set it to use the standard comm port routines, as it
 ZR> wouldn't display anything to the screen when set to use a fossil driver.
 ZR> Strange, as all my other games use the fossil driver with no issues.

Seems to be a bit hit and miss with dosemu2, but still, some dos games are better than none I guess. Same with dosbox, although I've had much more success with dosbox, there are the odd ones that have weird issues. It's just a pity it doesn't do file locking.

 ZR> There was some dosemu gunk that got printed to the screen as the game
 ZR> closed out, but it seemed to run great otherwise. 

That's odd. are you exiting with exitemu? I know if you just do "exit" it prints some stuff (press a key to exit or something) exitemu so far has exited with nothing printed for me (though I've not setup TW2002 on it).

Andrew

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