Golden Axe in Linux

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

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