Subj : Re: TradeWars 2002 in Dosemu on Linux
To   : Nightfox
From : Zero Reader
Date : Thu Jun 02 2022 09:03 am

On 01 Jun 2022, Nightfox said the following...
 
 Ni> Tradewars 2002 is not successfully running under dosemu though.  It
 Ni> shows a DPMI error and exits.  After searching online, it seems that's a
 Ni> fairly well known issue, and it seems to be a bug in dosemu and nobody
 Ni> has found a workaround.  I'm curious if anyone has gotten Tradewars 2002
 Ni> to run successfully in dosemu?  I'm a bit bummed because it's a fairly
 Ni> popular door game.

It looks like there is a non-DPMI version available. Have you tried that one?

http://wiki.classictw.com/index.php?title=Application:TradeWars_2002_v3

There's also a guide to installing TW with dosemu on the Arcadia BBS page. I don't know if it's still valid:

https://www.arcadiabbs.com/setting-up-tradewars-on-linux/

For what it's worth, I run dosemu2 for door games (I had to switch to dosemu2 to run the latest Usurper -- one of my favorites) and it seems to work fine. 

I don't run the DOS version of TW, I run TWGS as a service using WINE under Linux, and it seems fine. It was really as simple as installing wine and clicking the TWGS installer. That's all I had to do!

Hope you get it going!

-ZR

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