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PLAYING CLASSIC GAMES UNDER UBUNTU

linuxondesktop.blogspot.com — Do you still remember good old dos games or NES or SNES games Alley Cat and Mario and Contra and other classic games we used to play , these games were simple compared to todays games but were very entertaining nonetheless . Here in this article i describe how to play these games on Ubuntu as well as link to some of the popular old games i liked

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  • Dumbledorito, on 10/12/2007, -10/+53Does Ubuntu not have a "Caps Lock" function?
    • dynacrylic, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3my thoughts exactly...
    • schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+29Digg the article, not the submitter.
    • sishgupta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12DOSBOX also works in windows allowing users to play many old school games that aren't supported by CMD.exe on windows xp and vista.
    • uhdean, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5@sishgupta try command.com instead of cmd.exe. It is the 16-bit version of the command prompt in XP. Not sure about Vista...
    • Mootabolife, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Digg the articles that shout the loudest.
    • vagarach, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2No its command.com in the older windows versions. The one in xp just appears to be a dos prompt, it's more an emulator of command.com than anything else.
    • Intangir, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1on linux (ubuntu) you can run old MSDOS mode games using dosemu running freedos, i play master of orion2 on that all the time, also crusader no regret works
    • Terc, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3PLEASE DIGG THIS, I PUT IT IN CAPS LOCK BECAUSE IT'S "IMPORTANTER"
    • bias, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2@schestowitz
      you mean digg is just because it has "Ubuntu" on the title, no matter capped or not?
    • dudeknt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR AWESOME!!!!!!
    • MrPhelps, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1@vagarach : There is actually a command.com in XP, try it. I doubt it allows to play old DOS games though.
  • dynacrylic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Seems like an interesting read, but I couldn't finish it because it was poorly written.

    No digg, yet no bury....
    • psylence, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Amen, it looks like stuff stolen from forums and barfed onto the "blog" for ad hits, along with an s/Linux/UBUNUTU/ for good measure.

      Oh wait, this is digg right? That's _exactly_ what it is.
    • adikt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1"which is quite popular here in India"

      There's why...
  • SatNav, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5meh.. not much info in that article, nothing that anyone geeky enough to try out linux couldn't figure out themselves. how about at least mentioning wine, or scummvm. blatantly only got as many diggs as it has because of the words 'Games' and 'Ubuntu' in the title.
    • ChumpChief, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No, I dugg it because it tells me how to play Alleycat again... God I miss that game.

      //not using Ubuntu now, but this might convince me to switch
    • bllambert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There is no classic gaming without scummvm in my opinion. Day of the Tentacle should be played annually. It works just as well in linux as it does in Windows.
    • firemaker103, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://mupen64.emulation64.com/
    • strabes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1mupen64 is an amazing emulator. Super smash anyone?
  • ambuj123, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Article clearly mentions that it describes SNES,NES and DOS games under ubuntu and that is what it does so why all the flames,it is meant to be a short tutorial for newbies not geeky people how many newbies would know abut nes,zsnes and dosbox !!!!!
  • MrSarcasm, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29TURNING CAPS LOCK OFF IN UBUNTU - WORKS OUT OF THE BOX WITH FOSS DRIVERS.
    • strabes, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3YEAH!! It's great. It's free too. You have to pay $300 for that function in windows, and $2000 for that function on a Mac.
  • Pie_Man, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17HEY!!!! THIS LOOKS LIKE A LOT OF FUN....CAN YOU HEAR ME?!?!?!
  • BigBadger, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6SCREEEEAAAMMMING ON THE IIIINTERNEEETS!!

    Good article, though.
  • thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4All I gotta say is:

    "Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, B, A, Select, Start" Baby!
    • mattyice11, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6That second 'B-A' is unnecessary.
    • ClayDragon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Ummm.... I somehow remember this combo... But my memories fail me... Could someone PLEASE tell me the name of the game?

      Oh yes, and digg me down if you must. :)
    • adikt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Contra
    • StealthTomato, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's the classic Konami code. It works in most old Konami games.

      Also, it's

      Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left Right, B, A, Select, Start

      or just

      Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left Right, B, A, Start

      for 1 player.

      Is it sad that I know this without having any games to which the code applies?
  • Jack8lack, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1""these games were simple compared to todays games" Only if you play them now! When we were kids they were just as hard haha."

    Try and play Battletoads on the NES and then say that these games are easy now
  • Forever-Zero, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15MAYBE I'LL CATCH THEIR ATTENTION WITH LARGE CAPITAL LETTERS
    • sworoc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You accidentally spelled "THEIR" right, you should replace it with "THERE" and more people will instantly understand what you mean.
  • scabbers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Do linux users need to be hand-held through the process of downloading an emulator?

    PS Dosbox rules.
    • SniggityBiggity, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Obviously they do if they are Ubuntu users
    • warmotor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Don't dog Ubuntu because it's making Linux accessible to the masses of casual users brought up on DOS and Windows. Putting a good front-end on APT out of the box (so to speak) is a feature long overdue. Installing software on Linux has always been a pain in the ass and some of us don't have several days of hair-pulling thanks to missing or circular dependencies before we can use a piece of software. God Bless Ubuntu.
  • arugge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I may be an Ubuntu newb but i found 2 NES and SNES emulators in there Add / Remove programs section.

  • godamit, on 10/12/2007, -6/+48 OUT OF 10 ARTICELS IS ABOUT UBUNTU.... CAPS LOCK PWNS DA WORL;D!11111111111
    • habbofresh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Yup congrats to the article writer. I now hate Ubuntu fanboys like I hate Macfags and Vista Fanboys.
  • robdiggity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.virtualnes.com/ pretty much does the job for any OS.
  • joper90, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ubuntu has mouse support..

    i mean ffs... how lame. and bury'd as such.
  • MrSunshine, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4COOL , I DIDNT' KNOW , ALLEY CAT CAME OUT FOR THE SNES .

    NOTE THE , SPACES BEFORE , THE PUNCTAUTION .
    • repruhsent, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2ROFL, thank you for the laugh, good sir.
  • habbofresh, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Oh wow. Another "Now that I'm using Ubuntu, LOOK WHAT I CAN DO!" article.

    To the author of the article, let me speak a language you seem to understand: YES YOU CAN DO THAT.

  • jcm267, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1www.freeroms.com

    The games use the same emulator... they have most games.

    Anyone have a good link to a Apple IIe emulator and games? I once had an emulator that had every game, 200+ megabytes worth... but I was a moron and backed it up on a 250mb zip disk, then lost it all when I had to reformat my drive...
  • SniggityBiggity, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3wow it's 1997 all over again. By that I mean making emulation into somthing.

    Do Ubuntu users corner the market on ***** lame or what?
  • l34NDl20, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.xe-emulator.com/ - Works great.
  • strabes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I normally wouldn't digg this article, but I'm going to out of spite for all of the flaming going on. I paid $0 for my operating system.
    • SniggityBiggity, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0and half the chinks in china didn't pay for windows wtf is your point
      print out the ubuntu logo twist it up and cram it up your ass
    • somerandomnerd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I beat you both. My OS is free.
    • SniggityBiggity, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0so's mine *****
      centos doesn't cost a dime and it's not named after an aids infested ubangi love child
  • Arctirus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2buried for caps.
  • Twist05, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I am burying this. NO ***** CAPTIA...oh wait now I'm doing it!
  • reed311, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ok, so we've had an article for every single thing that Ubuntu can do. Maybe the next article will show us how to double-click on an icon.
    • stalefries, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2OK, this time I'm going to show you how to double-click in UBUNUNUNUTU. First, find an item you would like to double-click. This is any item in a folder or on your desktop. It can include documents, programs, documents, music, images, or documents. To double click, drag your mouse along the desk until the pointer on your screen is over the item you want to double click. Now, this is the hard part. Click on the object once, then click it once again. Make sure you do this rapidly enough!

      If you did this properly, your document/program/whatever should now be opening! HOORAY!
  • Phantom784, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1One emulator this article failed to mention is MAME. MAME lets you play classic arcade games on your computer. http://my.opera.com/Mr%20Green/blog/show.dml/171040 (no, this isn't my blog, just the first google result for "ubuntu mame")
    • Anonymous3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0While the MAME project is for the arcade stuff, you also have the MESS project where you'll find your console stuff (its basically the sister project of MAME if you didn't know).

      It's a pity MESS isn't overly stellar in being nice for me, but still its freaking amazing to have all the possibilities sitting there as to what games I can play again with it...

      http://www.mess.org/sysinfo.html
  • fuckingmorons, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Buried. zsnes, snes9x, NESticle, etc. And yes, plenty of "newbies" know of these emulators. MAME is a great emulator.
  • DDRRE, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3dude.
    An article on how to install DosBOX? come on.
    OMFG UBUNTU COMMANDS THIS IS HELP FOR LINUX NEWBIES AND NOT JUST A REGULAR GUIDE
  • tehmoth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Next on digg: HOW TO OPEN MICROSOFT OFFICE DOCUMENTS ON UBUNTU or HOW TO DOWNLOAD FILES FROM THE PIRATE BAY ON UBUNTU. Actually I think the latter was already on digg.
  • sark666, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1 I still want a good commodore 64 emu on linux. And yes there is vice, but last I tried it's video modes were so weird it's hard to get any type of full screen emulation.
  • BigSlacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What does Ubuntu have to do with this? It doesn't work on other OSes? Are we going to have "Editing a file on Ubuntu" next?
  • jake3988, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ZSNES is the king of all emulators, I'd recommend it. Conservely i have to yet to find a single decent emulator for any other system.

    FCEU is absolutely atrocious. You can't configure it, any the key associations are awful. I've tried a few more and most are the same way.


    Oh, yeah, and I recommend dosbox too. I love it.
    • corvairkid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"FCEU is absolutely atrocious. You can't configure it, any the key associations are awful. I've tried a few more and most are the same way."

      Haven't tried FCEU on Linux but it does work pretty damn good on Windows. The only problem I've ever had was with roms that were ripped from multi-game cartridges. FCEU doesn't handle the different starting bit very well and you get crap like the "World 0-0" in the first Super Mario Bros. (ripped from the SMB/Duck Hunt cart.) The fix for that was to download a rom from the stand alone SMB and it works fine.

      And yes, I do still own my NES console and all physical game carts for my roms so you lawyers can ***** off.
  • fuckingusername, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Im still play how to get my wireless to work game.......
  • corvairkid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ultima 7 in its original glory on dosbox or Ultima 7 with some cool updates on Exult?

    Too many choices.
  • GamingLab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1or you could play a game which you CAN'T play on a $30 console.
    http://wine.getcontinuum.com/
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