Subj : Re: Linux dosemu2
To   : Analog
From : ryan
Date : Tue Aug 11 2020 11:35:03

 An> Any hints on dosemurc file contents for DPMI compatibility with TW2002,
 An> etc...?

Very cool - maybe there's a way to make a recipe here for other people to use.

In /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf I have the following uncommented and configured
lines (everything else commented out):

$_cpu = "80486"
$_cpu_emu = "vm86"
$_hogthreshold = (10)
$_external_char_set = "utf8"
$_internal_char_set = "cp437"
$_layout = "us"
$_rawkeyboard = (0)
$_joy_device = ""
$_speaker = ""
$_sound = (off)

Now, keep in mind that dosemu2 doesn't have any concept of autoexec.bat or
config.sys. You can make a c:\userhook.bat and treat it like an autoexec.bat,
but just know that if you launch something as a command line arg when
invoking dosemu2 it won't launch userhook.bat, so you may need to put a call
to c:\userhook.bat in your door startup batch files.

Also, the way it enumerates directories is weird. I didn't want my doors dir
to be like k:\ or something, so what I did was make symlinks - my
~/.dosemu/drive_c/doors is symlinked to my ~/dosdoors directory, for example.

For tw2002, install the dpmi version within dosemu2. I use the following as
my actual batch file to launch the game:

@echo off
c:
cd \doors\tw2002

SET TWNODE=%1

tw2002.exe

-- snip --

Note that I am not using a fossil driver here - whether or not fossil drivers
do much is unclear to me, so I've only been installing them when I feel
they're necessary :)

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