Help requested: Dosemu/Dosbox

[Lewis Handy]

On 12 September 2011 10:12, Sanjay Arora <sanjay.k.arora at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all
>
> I have an old xbase/clipper program that I need to run on Linux. Tried it
> some time ago on Dosemu on CentOS. Need to run it on Fedora now as the new
> hardware does not load CentOS.
>
> Found that Dosemu is missing from Fedora 15 and Dosbox is there instead.
> However, it clearly states that printing is not a priority for it and I need
> to print out to a Dot-Matrix printer.
>
> Can someone advise why Dosemu has been dropped? And strangely I cannot find
> any repo that I can enable while maintaining fedora with protectbase yum
> plugin....google searches yield rpm search engines with downloadable rpms
> but I can't seem to get to a repo.
>
> Can someone please advise? Graphics & sound are not an issue for me and the
> use case is accounting.
>
> With best regards.
> Sanjay.
>
> You could always try a virtual machine with freedos, that is how I play all
> my old dos games under linux these days.
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