Golden Axe in Linux
Posted on 31 Aug, 2008, categorized under Information Insemination
I was browsing the net today and a keyword popped up in my head, "Golden Axe". Golden Axe was an old game I remember playing when I was a kid. Google brought me to Abandonia, the lair of old (and abandoned) games.
When downloaded, I tried to run it using wine but presented with the following error;
shakir@anduril ~/gold $ wine GOLD.EXE winevdm: unable to exec 'D:\shakir\gold\GOLD.EXE': DOS memory range unavailable
Someone suggested the following solution
shakir@anduril ~/gold $ sudo sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=0 vm.mmap_min_addr = 0
But I still get the following error, because I’m using 64 bit Linux;
shakir@anduril ~/gold $ wine GOLD.EXE wine: Cannot start DOS application "D:\\shakir\\gold\\GOLD.EXE" because vm86 mode is not supported on this platform.
In the end I decided to install dosbox, and things then run perfectly.
shakir@anduril ~/gold $ sudo apt-get install dosbox shakir@anduril ~/gold $ dosbox GOLD.EXE
Looking for something else? Search Google.
Digger, paratrooper, prehistoric, super shinobi, sail, hmm, what else did we play ek? Downloaded and played some of them already.
