Re: Rescuing ancient laptops into emulation.
On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:31:17 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> The ancient laptop in question has about 24M main memory, a 2G hard
> drive, a plug-in floppy drive, a CD drive, and a 10Mhz coaxial ethernet
> PCMCIA card. (Remember those?)
> The hard drive will probably fail one of these years. I'm surprised it
> hasn't already.
> It runs an ancient Windows system, probably Windows 95.
>
> I can probably rig up enough hardware on another machine to talk to its
> ethernet.
>
> I can probably find a small enough Linux Live CD system to boot on it
> and use the sshfs or NFS o copy the entire hard drive over the ethernet
> connection. But recommendations would be very welcome.
>
> Getting the bits is only the first problem, though. Quite a few of
> those files are in file formats that can only be understood by the
> Windows software that also resides on that machine.
>
> Oh, the machine also contains one of my favourite legacy video games.
>
> I'd like to run all that in emulation (or otherwise (any suggestions?))
> on one of my new. shiny Debian boxes.
>
> Any suggestions as to what emulators are up to the challenge? Or better
> ways of accomplishing the whole project?
>
> And would I have to rescue just the files or make an entire block-by-
> block hard drive image? And would that image have to be in any
> (preferably documented?) form?
DSL?
Once you have the files transferred, I'd suggest trying with DosBox as a
start.
apt-cache search dosbox
dosbox - A x86 emulator with Tandy/Herc/CGA/EGA/VGA/SVGA graphics, sound
and DOS
I've tried DosBox - Doom and DoomII run fine in it.
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