vwbusguy, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

It took a bit of work but I got it running on #Fedora #Linux 39 with #wine and a little help from @lutris . Had to get wine to emulate Windows 3.1.

#QBASIC

vwbusguy, 3 months ago

@lutris Oh dang, we're going really deep with this one!

#QBASIC

sfalken, 3 months ago

@vwbusguy @lutris wouldn't DOSBox have been even easier?

vwbusguy, 3 months ago

@sfalken @lutris Maybe? Absolutely no part of what I'm doing is practical in any way. I'm reading floppies from the early 90s on a machine running modern Linux on 16 threads and 64GB of memory.

vwbusguy, 3 months ago

@sfalken @lutris It turns out #wine is also using #DOSBox for this? TIL.

sfalken, 3 months ago

@vwbusguy @lutris running DOSBox through wine is just silly =P

vwbusguy, 3 months ago

@sfalken @lutris Nah, wine uses DosBox under the hood when you set target windows version to an early DOS based one.

lutris, 3 months ago

@vwbusguy @sfalken there are plenty of options to run old PC software!

• Dosbox Staging
• Dosbox Pure in Retroarch
• MAME
• PCem / 86box
• Qemu

vwbusguy, 3 months ago

@lutris @sfalken I think I might have an even better idea!