Thanks Herman….

Some people may not like the fact that neither their Aspire One netbook nor the linux operating system will allow them to play modern games.

So, why not play some old favourites on the Aspire one? I am a fan of the FPS genre and Doom and Quake are classics that made FPS what it is today. Both are DOS based games and will therefore only run under a DOS emulator.

So first we need to install DOSEMU which happens to be part of the Mint Linux Synaptic Package Manager. Open the Package Manager (in Mint’s “Adminstration” menu folder) and do a “quick search” for “dosemu” and it finds version 1.4. This is quickly installed and can be found back in the System Tools menu as DOS emulator.

In Mint Linux two drives are recognised C: and D:. The D: drive is where you can access data, files etc. So let’s install Quake. Go to http://www.idsoftware.com/games/quake. Select Quake from the submenu and download the demo “Quake106.zip”.

Doubleclicking the file will open it in the file archiver. Extract it in a place where you can easily find it from within your Dos emulator. In the Dos emulator navigate to the drive and directory where the unzipped files reside. You can use the “cd” command to change the directory.

Run the install.bat file, indicate you want the files to be installed on the D: drive and let the program make a directory called “quake_sw”. The rest is easy. Use a video size of 800×600 for best results and press Ctrl+Alt+F to maximise the Dos screen.

Doom is installed very much in the same way although you will not find a Doom (1st episode) demo on the idsoftware page. Instead go to http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/doom/.

Is FPS not your cup of tea and you prefer the curves of Lara Croft (aka Tomb Raider)? I installed Tomb Raider effortlessly in the same way.

Have fun!

Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/netbookjohn

Thanks Herman….

Some people may not like the fact that neither their Aspire One netbook nor the linux operating system will allow them to play modern games.

So, why not play some old favourites on the Aspire one? I am a fan of the FPS genre and Doom and Quake are classics that made FPS what it is today. Both are DOS based games and will therefore only run under a DOS emulator.

So first we need to install DOSEMU which happens to be part of the Mint Linux Synaptic Package Manager. Open the Package Manager (in Mint’s “Adminstration” menu folder) and do a “quick search” for “dosemu” and it finds version 1.4. This is quickly installed and can be found back in the System Tools menu as DOS emulator.

In Mint Linux two drives are recognised C: and D:. The D: drive is where you can access data, files etc. So let’s install Quake. Go to http://www.idsoftware.com/games/quake. Select Quake from the submenu and download the demo “Quake106.zip”.

Doubleclicking the file will open it in the file archiver. Extract it in a place where you can easily find it from within your Dos emulator. In the Dos emulator navigate to the drive and directory where the unzipped files reside. You can use the “cd” command to change the directory.

Run the install.bat file, indicate you want the files to be installed on the D: drive and let the program make a directory called “quake_sw”. The rest is easy. Use a video size of 800×600 for best results and press Ctrl+Alt+F to maximise the Dos screen.

Doom is installed very much in the same way although you will not find a Doom (1st episode) demo on the idsoftware page. Instead go to http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/doom/.

Is FPS not your cup of tea and you prefer the curves of Lara Croft (aka Tomb Raider)? I installed Tomb Raider effortlessly in the same way.

Have fun!

Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/netbookjohn

Thanks Herman….

Some people may not like the fact that neither their Aspire One netbook nor the linux operating system will allow them to play modern games.

So, why not play some old favourites on the Aspire one? I am a fan of the FPS genre and Doom and Quake are classics that made FPS what it is today. Both are DOS based games and will therefore only run under a DOS emulator.

So first we need to install DOSEMU which happens to be part of the Mint Linux Synaptic Package Manager. Open the Package Manager (in Mint’s “Adminstration” menu folder) and do a “quick search” for “dosemu” and it finds version 1.4. This is quickly installed and can be found back in the System Tools menu as DOS emulator.

In Mint Linux two drives are recognised C: and D:. The D: drive is where you can access data, files etc. So let’s install Quake. Go to http://www.idsoftware.com/games/quake. Select Quake from the submenu and download the demo “Quake106.zip”.

Doubleclicking the file will open it in the file archiver. Extract it in a place where you can easily find it from within your Dos emulator. In the Dos emulator navigate to the drive and directory where the unzipped files reside. You can use the “cd” command to change the directory.

Run the install.bat file, indicate you want the files to be installed on the D: drive and let the program make a directory called “quake_sw”. The rest is easy. Use a video size of 800×600 for best results and press Ctrl+Alt+F to maximise the Dos screen.

Doom is installed very much in the same way although you will not find a Doom (1st episode) demo on the idsoftware page. Instead go to http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/doom/.

Is FPS not your cup of tea and you prefer the curves of Lara Croft (aka Tomb Raider)? I installed Tomb Raider effortlessly in the same way.

Have fun!

Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/netbookjohn

Thanks Herman….

Some people may not like the fact that neither their Aspire One netbook nor the linux operating system will allow them to play modern games.

So, why not play some old favourites on the Aspire one? I am a fan of the FPS genre and Doom and Quake are classics that made FPS what it is today. Both are DOS based games and will therefore only run under a DOS emulator.

So first we need to install DOSEMU which happens to be part of the Mint Linux Synaptic Package Manager. Open the Package Manager (in Mint’s “Adminstration” menu folder) and do a “quick search” for “dosemu” and it finds version 1.4. This is quickly installed and can be found back in the System Tools menu as DOS emulator.

In Mint Linux two drives are recognised C: and D:. The D: drive is where you can access data, files etc. So let’s install Quake. Go to http://www.idsoftware.com/games/quake. Select Quake from the submenu and download the demo “Quake106.zip”.

Doubleclicking the file will open it in the file archiver. Extract it in a place where you can easily find it from within your Dos emulator. In the Dos emulator navigate to the drive and directory where the unzipped files reside. You can use the “cd” command to change the directory.

Run the install.bat file, indicate you want the files to be installed on the D: drive and let the program make a directory called “quake_sw”. The rest is easy. Use a video size of 800×600 for best results and press Ctrl+Alt+F to maximise the Dos screen.

Doom is installed very much in the same way although you will not find a Doom (1st episode) demo on the idsoftware page. Instead go to http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/doom/.

Is FPS not your cup of tea and you prefer the curves of Lara Croft (aka Tomb Raider)? I installed Tomb Raider effortlessly in the same way.

Have fun!

Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/netbookjohn

Thanks Herman….

Some people may not like the fact that neither their Aspire One netbook nor the linux operating system will allow them to play modern games.

So, why not play some old favourites on the Aspire one? I am a fan of the FPS genre and Doom and Quake are classics that made FPS what it is today. Both are DOS based games and will therefore only run under a DOS emulator.

So first we need to install DOSEMU which happens to be part of the Mint Linux Synaptic Package Manager. Open the Package Manager (in Mint’s “Adminstration” menu folder) and do a “quick search” for “dosemu” and it finds version 1.4. This is quickly installed and can be found back in the System Tools menu as DOS emulator.

In Mint Linux two drives are recognised C: and D:. The D: drive is where you can access data, files etc. So let’s install Quake. Go to http://www.idsoftware.com/games/quake. Select Quake from the submenu and download the demo “Quake106.zip”.

Doubleclicking the file will open it in the file archiver. Extract it in a place where you can easily find it from within your Dos emulator. In the Dos emulator navigate to the drive and directory where the unzipped files reside. You can use the “cd” command to change the directory.

Run the install.bat file, indicate you want the files to be installed on the D: drive and let the program make a directory called “quake_sw”. The rest is easy. Use a video size of 800×600 for best results and press Ctrl+Alt+F to maximise the Dos screen.

Doom is installed very much in the same way although you will not find a Doom (1st episode) demo on the idsoftware page. Instead go to http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/doom/.

Is FPS not your cup of tea and you prefer the curves of Lara Croft (aka Tomb Raider)? I installed Tomb Raider effortlessly in the same way.

Have fun!

Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/netbookjohn

Thanks Herman….

Some people may not like the fact that neither their Aspire One netbook nor the linux operating system will allow them to play modern games.

So, why not play some old favourites on the Aspire one? I am a fan of the FPS genre and Doom and Quake are classics that made FPS what it is today. Both are DOS based games and will therefore only run under a DOS emulator.

So first we need to install DOSEMU which happens to be part of the Mint Linux Synaptic Package Manager. Open the Package Manager (in Mint’s “Adminstration” menu folder) and do a “quick search” for “dosemu” and it finds version 1.4. This is quickly installed and can be found back in the System Tools menu as DOS emulator.

In Mint Linux two drives are recognised C: and D:. The D: drive is where you can access data, files etc. So let’s install Quake. Go to http://www.idsoftware.com/games/quake. Select Quake from the submenu and download the demo “Quake106.zip”.

Doubleclicking the file will open it in the file archiver. Extract it in a place where you can easily find it from within your Dos emulator. In the Dos emulator navigate to the drive and directory where the unzipped files reside. You can use the “cd” command to change the directory.

Run the install.bat file, indicate you want the files to be installed on the D: drive and let the program make a directory called “quake_sw”. The rest is easy. Use a video size of 800×600 for best results and press Ctrl+Alt+F to maximise the Dos screen.

Doom is installed very much in the same way although you will not find a Doom (1st episode) demo on the idsoftware page. Instead go to http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/doom/.

Is FPS not your cup of tea and you prefer the curves of Lara Croft (aka Tomb Raider)? I installed Tomb Raider effortlessly in the same way.

Have fun!

Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/netbookjohn

Thanks Herman….

Some people may not like the fact that neither their Aspire One netbook nor the linux operating system will allow them to play modern games.

So, why not play some old favourites on the Aspire one? I am a fan of the FPS genre and Doom and Quake are classics that made FPS what it is today. Both are DOS based games and will therefore only run under a DOS emulator.

So first we need to install DOSEMU which happens to be part of the Mint Linux Synaptic Package Manager. Open the Package Manager (in Mint’s “Adminstration” menu folder) and do a “quick search” for “dosemu” and it finds version 1.4. This is quickly installed and can be found back in the System Tools menu as DOS emulator.

In Mint Linux two drives are recognised C: and D:. The D: drive is where you can access data, files etc. So let’s install Quake. Go to http://www.idsoftware.com/games/quake. Select Quake from the submenu and download the demo “Quake106.zip”.

Doubleclicking the file will open it in the file archiver. Extract it in a place where you can easily find it from within your Dos emulator. In the Dos emulator navigate to the drive and directory where the unzipped files reside. You can use the “cd” command to change the directory.

Run the install.bat file, indicate you want the files to be installed on the D: drive and let the program make a directory called “quake_sw”. The rest is easy. Use a video size of 800×600 for best results and press Ctrl+Alt+F to maximise the Dos screen.

Doom is installed very much in the same way although you will not find a Doom (1st episode) demo on the idsoftware page. Instead go to http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/doom/.

Is FPS not your cup of tea and you prefer the curves of Lara Croft (aka Tomb Raider)? I installed Tomb Raider effortlessly in the same way.

Have fun!

Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/netbookjohn

Thanks Herman….

Some people may not like the fact that neither their Aspire One netbook nor the linux operating system will allow them to play modern games.

So, why not play some old favourites on the Aspire one? I am a fan of the FPS genre and Doom and Quake are classics that made FPS what it is today. Both are DOS based games and will therefore only run under a DOS emulator.

So first we need to install DOSEMU which happens to be part of the Mint Linux Synaptic Package Manager. Open the Package Manager (in Mint’s “Adminstration” menu folder) and do a “quick search” for “dosemu” and it finds version 1.4. This is quickly installed and can be found back in the System Tools menu as DOS emulator.

In Mint Linux two drives are recognised C: and D:. The D: drive is where you can access data, files etc. So let’s install Quake. Go to http://www.idsoftware.com/games/quake. Select Quake from the submenu and download the demo “Quake106.zip”.

Doubleclicking the file will open it in the file archiver. Extract it in a place where you can easily find it from within your Dos emulator. In the Dos emulator navigate to the drive and directory where the unzipped files reside. You can use the “cd” command to change the directory.

Run the install.bat file, indicate you want the files to be installed on the D: drive and let the program make a directory called “quake_sw”. The rest is easy. Use a video size of 800×600 for best results and press Ctrl+Alt+F to maximise the Dos screen.

Doom is installed very much in the same way although you will not find a Doom (1st episode) demo on the idsoftware page. Instead go to http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/doom/.

Is FPS not your cup of tea and you prefer the curves of Lara Croft (aka Tomb Raider)? I installed Tomb Raider effortlessly in the same way.

Have fun!

Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/netbookjohn

Thanks Herman….

Some people may not like the fact that neither their Aspire One netbook nor the linux operating system will allow them to play modern games.

So, why not play some old favourites on the Aspire one? I am a fan of the FPS genre and Doom and Quake are classics that made FPS what it is today. Both are DOS based games and will therefore only run under a DOS emulator.

So first we need to install DOSEMU which happens to be part of the Mint Linux Synaptic Package Manager. Open the Package Manager (in Mint’s “Adminstration” menu folder) and do a “quick search” for “dosemu” and it finds version 1.4. This is quickly installed and can be found back in the System Tools menu as DOS emulator.

In Mint Linux two drives are recognised C: and D:. The D: drive is where you can access data, files etc. So let’s install Quake. Go to http://www.idsoftware.com/games/quake. Select Quake from the submenu and download the demo “Quake106.zip”.

Doubleclicking the file will open it in the file archiver. Extract it in a place where you can easily find it from within your Dos emulator. In the Dos emulator navigate to the drive and directory where the unzipped files reside. You can use the “cd” command to change the directory.

Run the install.bat file, indicate you want the files to be installed on the D: drive and let the program make a directory called “quake_sw”. The rest is easy. Use a video size of 800×600 for best results and press Ctrl+Alt+F to maximise the Dos screen.

Doom is installed very much in the same way although you will not find a Doom (1st episode) demo on the idsoftware page. Instead go to http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/doom/.

Is FPS not your cup of tea and you prefer the curves of Lara Croft (aka Tomb Raider)? I installed Tomb Raider effortlessly in the same way.

Have fun!

Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/netbookjohn

Thanks Herman….

Some people may not like the fact that neither their Aspire One netbook nor the linux operating system will allow them to play modern games.

So, why not play some old favourites on the Aspire one? I am a fan of the FPS genre and Doom and Quake are classics that made FPS what it is today. Both are DOS based games and will therefore only run under a DOS emulator.

So first we need to install DOSEMU which happens to be part of the Mint Linux Synaptic Package Manager. Open the Package Manager (in Mint’s “Adminstration” menu folder) and do a “quick search” for “dosemu” and it finds version 1.4. This is quickly installed and can be found back in the System Tools menu as DOS emulator.

In Mint Linux two drives are recognised C: and D:. The D: drive is where you can access data, files etc. So let’s install Quake. Go to http://www.idsoftware.com/games/quake. Select Quake from the submenu and download the demo “Quake106.zip”.

Doubleclicking the file will open it in the file archiver. Extract it in a place where you can easily find it from within your Dos emulator. In the Dos emulator navigate to the drive and directory where the unzipped files reside. You can use the “cd” command to change the directory.

Run the install.bat file, indicate you want the files to be installed on the D: drive and let the program make a directory called “quake_sw”. The rest is easy. Use a video size of 800×600 for best results and press Ctrl+Alt+F to maximise the Dos screen.

Doom is installed very much in the same way although you will not find a Doom (1st episode) demo on the idsoftware page. Instead go to http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/doom/.

Is FPS not your cup of tea and you prefer the curves of Lara Croft (aka Tomb Raider)? I installed Tomb Raider effortlessly in the same way.

Have fun!

Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/netbookjohn