Package request: dosemu

[SDRausty]

DOSEMU stands for DOS Emulation, and allows you to run DOS and many DOS programs, including many DPMI applications such as DOOM and Windows 3.1, under Linux.

👉 http://dosemu.org
👉 https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dosemu

[SDRausty]

👉 https://www.gnu.org/software/gnudos/

DOSEmu can run only on x86. See this: https://wiki.debian.org/Arm64PortANFUList

[SDRausty]

The reason I am suggesting 🗣 a DOS emulator:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=open+source+dos+games 🎁

Probably any DOS emulator would do well https://duckduckgo.com/?q=open+source+dos+emulator+for+linux 🖥

Which one is simplest to port?
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dosbox
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/?source=directory

[gordol]

Linux localhost 3.14.0 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Sep 26 23:44:21 PDT 2017 i686 Android

No problem here, dosemu package should be totally possible.

Just because package isn't available on arm doesn't mean we shouldn't NOT support it, since there are plenty of environments in which Termux is indeed running on x86 hardware.

[SDRausty]

@gordol @xeffyr @fornwall Which is easiest to port into Termux 💪☺️ in your opinion?

[SDRausty]

https://www.google.com/search?q=easiest+dos+emulator+to+port+into+linux

[SDRausty]

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=easiest+dos+emulator+to+port+into+linux

[SDRausty]

🎅🎄🎁🤶☺️🎼

To run a DOS emulator we need graphical output in Termux. @vishalbiswas has added a repository with X11 packages, so we can access graphical output with VNC (but third party VNC viewer is required).
Now X components are available here: https://github.com/xeffyr/termux-x-repository

[SDRausty]

@xeffyr DOS 🎅 is not GUI.

[SDRausty]

DOS Disk Operating System

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=open+source+dos+games

@SDRausty, yes DOS is not GUI. But dosbox requires SDL.

[SDRausty]

Thank you for your time and response. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=open+source+dos+games+top+10

😐

[SDRausty]

dosbox is available through Arch Linux in Termux PRoot. It produces the following error, Exit to error: Can't init SDL No available video device.