Run MS-Dos in Linux Ubuntu
Last week I stumbled upon an interesting program called DOSBox. It's a free program of course that lets you emulate MS-Dos , the first program created by Microsoft. Usually I use this program to run old DOS games . Since most of the dos games are free and fun to play, I recommend you this program. It's up to you what you do with it ;)
Installation:
1. open up ubuntu software center located in applications menu
2. search for dosbox and install it.
3 go to applications menu, games and open dos box
4 . the program does not read the contents of your drive so you need to mount it by typing :
mount c /home/(your user name)
5 . now, your " virtual" c drive has the same contents as your /home/(your user name) folder
You can type dir so see the current files that you mounted in step 4. use cd (folder name) to go to your desired directory or cd ../ to go to the previous derectory. to run a game, you can go to this site http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/
Download the game and extract it to the desired directory. Ex: /home/via_cos/dosGames/
Now it's just a matter of navigating through your files in DosBox and executing the right .exe file from your games folder.