Elite is one of the most famous and legendary computer games of all time, and it’s possible to the play the space trading game on the Linux Version of the Acer Aspire One using DosBox.
To install DosBox:
- Right click on the desktop to display the advanced menu.
- Choose system
- Choose Add/remove Software
- Enter your Admin Password
- Click on the search tab
- Search for DosBox
- Select and install DosBox
DosBox is now available in the system area in the advanced menu.
Elite (and Elite Plus) is freely and legally available from Ian Bell’s Website who co-wrote Elite.
- Download the version of Elite you want to play from http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/pc/index.htm
- using XAchiver extract the files to your DosBox folder (eg /home/user/dosprog)
- Launch DosBox from the Advanced Menu and map the c: drive to your DosBox folder (eg mount c ~/dosprog).
- Switch to your mounted drive.
You can now launch Elite from the Dos prompt in DosBox
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September 22nd, 2009
John
I’ve been looking for a golf game for the Acer Aspire One, and wasn’t having a great deal of success, until I found my installation CD for LINKS 386 for my old PC.
It’s a game I used to play when I was at college and used to really enjoy it, and fortunately it runs really well on DOSBox on the Acer Aspire One.
I was able to copy the directory of an installed version of LINKS386 into my DOSBox dos directory on my Acer Aspire One.
I can map C: straight into the LINK386 directory and run it through DOSBox.
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To run classic PC games you need to create a directory on your Acer Aspire One which will be used as the DOS Drive in the DOSBox Emulator.
To do this I used the My Files Application to create a directory called dosprog in /home/user/
This is the space where to store your Dos Applications.
To access this directory as the C: in DOSBox:
1) Launch DOSBox
2) Type mount c ~/dosprog
3) You will now be able to access the directory through DOSBox as if it was the c: on a DOS PC.
I have found that to get the best results you should mount the drive to the directory of the Application that you want to run.
EG If I wanted to run Wing Commander
I would mount c: like this: mount c ~/dosprog/wc1
I would then type c: to change to the C drive and then run the EXE file.
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DosBox is a Dos emulator for Linux and is easily installable on the Acer Aspire One, it allows you to load all your PC Dos applications and play your old PC games.
To install DosBox:
- Right click on the desktop to display the advanced menu.
- Choose system
- Choose Add/remove Software
- Enter your Admin Password
- Click on the search tab
- Search for DosBox
- Select and install DosBox
DosBox is now available in the system area in the advanced menu.
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