Subj : TradeWars 2002 in Dosemu on Linux
To   : All
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Jun 01 2022 12:13 pm

Recently I moved my BBS (running Synchronet) from Windows to Linux.  I had been running my BBS in a Windows virtual machine (on Linux) for a long time and wanted to move it to the Linux host OS so that I could stop running the Windows VM.

I'm using dosemu because Synchronet has built-in support for using dosemu to run DOS doors (and it happens fairly seamlessly so you don't have to explicitly put dosemu in the command line to run the door or anything).

Tradewars 2002 is not successfully running under dosemu though.  It shows a DPMI error and exits.  After searching online, it seems that's a fairly well known issue, and it seems to be a bug in dosemu and nobody has found a workaround.  I'm curious if anyone has gotten Tradewars 2002 to run successfully in dosemu?  I'm a bit bummed because it's a fairly popular door game.

I know there's a dosemu2 available, but currently Synchronet only has support for the previous dosemu.  Currently I'm using dosemu 1.4.0.7-20130105 in Linux Mint.

Nightfox
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