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Do you miss the screech of a dial-up modem? Probably not. But do you miss the golden era of Commander Keen , Doom , Theme Hospital , or Transport Tycoon ? Absolutely.

[autoexec] # Lines in this section will be run at startup mount c ~/dosbox_games c: cls echo Welcome to your DOSBox gaming vault! Now, every time you launch DOSBox, your C: drive will be ready to go. Old games were designed for 25-66 MHz CPUs. Your modern 3.5 GHz processor will make them run insanely fast. To fix this, DOSBox has a "cycles" system. dosbox ubuntu

Here is everything you need to know to install, configure, and run DOSBox on Ubuntu. DOSBox is an emulator that recreates the hardware environment of an old x86 PC. It tricks your old software into thinking it is running on a machine with a SoundBlaster 16, a VGA graphics card, and a 66 MHz CPU. Do you miss the screech of a dial-up modem

DOSBox uses a configuration file. Generate the default one: Absolutely

[cpu] cycles=fixed 3000 Issue: No Sound Ubuntu handles audio differently than DOS. In your dosbox.conf , make sure you are using the correct backend:

dosbox -printconf It will print the path (usually ~/.dosbox/dosbox-*.conf ). Edit that file: