I see a lot of discussion in using dosemu for DOOR support. I'm wondering if anybody has built or has access to RPMs for this tool.

I've cloned the git repository, and tried to compile it for Rocky Linux; but it seems to have a number of dependencies which you also have to build form source.

I expect most people are using ubuntu, and I see that dosemu2 is available through the package manager.

I've not been able to find a Red Hat based repo that has it packaged. Anybody else using Rocky Linux or another similar rpm based RHEL9 clone ?

Thanks.

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Re: dosemu/dosemu2
By: Amessyroom to all on Mon Jul 22 2024 03:44 pm

I've not been able to find a Red Hat based repo that has it packaged. Anybody else using Rocky Linux or another similar rpm based RHEL9 clone ?

I wonder if a Fedora package would work? I saw a mention of dosemu-1.4.0.8-18.20131022git.el8.x86_64.rpm:
https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/miscellaneous-el8-rpms/5699
It looks like there's a link for that file here:
https://shorturl.at/dMx2R
Full link: https://fedora.pkgs.org/39/rpmfusion-free-x86_64/dosemu-1.4.0.8-34.20131022git. fc39.x86_64.rpm.html

I haven't tried that myself, so I'm not sure if that would work or not.

Nightfox

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On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 18:18:52 -0700
"Nightfox" (VERT/DIGDIST) <VERT/DIGDIST!Nightfox@endofthelinebbs.com>
wrote:

Re: dosemu/dosemu2
By: Amessyroom to all on Mon Jul 22 2024 03:44 pm

I've not been able to find a Red Hat based repo that has it
packaged. Anybody else using Rocky Linux or another similar rpm
based RHEL9 clone ?

I wonder if a Fedora package would work? I saw a mention of dosemu-1.4.0.8-18.20131022git.el8.x86_64.rpm: https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/miscellaneous-el8-rpms/5699
It looks like there's a link for that file here:
https://shorturl.at/dMx2R
Full link: https://fedora.pkgs.org/39/rpmfusion-free-x86_64/dosemu-1.4.0.8-34.20131022git.
fc39.x86_64.rpm.html

I haven't tried that myself, so I'm not sure if that would work or
not.

Nightfox

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That's dosemu1 not dosemu2.
You can get daily builds for Fedora here: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/stsp/dosemu2
you could always ask Stsp to create them for Rocky and hope he's not in
a pissy mood. :)
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That's dosemu1 not dosemu2.

Yeah. His message subject was "dosemu/dosemu2" so I thought it might surlffice if he couldn't find a dosemu2.

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On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 23:18:52 -0700, you wrote:

dosemu-1.4.0.8-18.20131022git.el8.x86_64.rpm

I haven't tried that myself, so I'm not sure if that would work or not.

That's not dosemu2, though. However, the original dosemu (1.4.0.8) may still work for most games.

Regards,
Nick

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On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 01:54:28 -0700, you wrote:

That's dosemu1 not dosemu2.

Yeah. His message subject was "dosemu/dosemu2" so I thought it might surlffice
if he couldn't find a dosemu2.

Didn't see any of this till after I posted the last message. I'm late to the party. :)

Regards,
Nick

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El 22/7/24 a las 16:44, Amessyroom escribió:

I see a lot of discussion in using dosemu for DOOR support. I'm wondering if anybody has built or has access to RPMs for this tool.

I've cloned the git repository, and tried to compile it for Rocky Linux; but it
seems to have a number of dependencies which you also have to build form source.

I expect most people are using ubuntu, and I see that dosemu2 is available through the package manager.

I've not been able to find a Red Hat based repo that has it packaged. Anybody else using Rocky Linux or another similar rpm based RHEL9 clone ?

Thanks.

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I was able to build from the sources in Debian

I had to build nasm-segelf because it's not in debian

https://git.launchpad.net/nasm-segelf
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Someone on Rocky Linux MatterMost chat server was able to direct me to a src rpm for dosemu (not dosemu2) in a rpmfusion repository for fedora40. Using that and a build tool called, mock I was able to rebuild the rpm into a binary rpm for Rocky Linux that built and installed flawlessly.

Started dosemu and was able to run dukenukem LOL.

So I'm on the search to find similar source rpm for dosemu2. I'll try to find a contact for rpm fusion and/or fedora copr which seem to build dosemu and dosemu2 respectively. And see if I can apply mock to it, and get a more current emulator with dosemu2.

I've downloaded the source for dosemu2 from github, and the dependencies are just causing me difficults, figuring out where stuff needs to be, special environment variables that have to be set to find compiled code, etc. I can probably build it, if I keep at it. Just trying find a less time consuming path.

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On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 15:44:08 -0400
"Amessyroom" (VERT/TL-QWK) <VERT/TL-QWK!Amessyroom@endofthelinebbs.com>
wrote:

I see a lot of discussion in using dosemu for DOOR support. I'm
wondering if anybody has built or has access to RPMs for this tool.

I've cloned the git repository, and tried to compile it for Rocky
Linux; but it seems to have a number of dependencies which you also
have to build form source.

I expect most people are using ubuntu, and I see that dosemu2 is
available through the package manager.

I've not been able to find a Red Hat based repo that has it packaged.
Anybody else using Rocky Linux or another similar rpm based RHEL9
clone ?

Thanks.

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I tried to compile dosemu2 but it requires fdpp.
Unfortunately fdpp requires Meson 0.64 and Rocky only provided 0.63.3.
Maybe you should consider Ubuntu where this stuff just works :)
I switched from CentOS a long time ago because I was tired of things
being so out of date. It's fine for corporate worlds when you want
stability but it's not good when you're trying to run the latest and
greatest. Ubuntu beats CentOS/Rocky in that arena.
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Re: Re: dosemu/dosemu2
By: nelgin to All on Mon Jul 22 2024 10:03 pm

You can get daily builds for Fedora here: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/stsp/dosemu2 you could always ask Stsp to create them for Rocky and hope he's not in a pissy mood. :)
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I've emailed him. Hopefully he can point me to source rpm, and I can rebuild with mock; or build for rocky :-)

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Re: Re: dosemu/dosemu2
By: Nightfox to nelgin on Mon Jul 22 2024 08:54 pm

That's dosemu1 not dosemu2.

Yeah. His message subject was "dosemu/dosemu2" so I thought it might surlffice if he couldn't find a dosemu2.

DOORs are new to me. And whichever works, so I can use it I will use.

With the fedora reference, rocky linux response in their chat server I have a working dosemu. But I'm hoping to get dosemu2 also, I've emailed a maintainer to see if I can obtain source rpm to recompile for rocky linux.

Fingers crossed. Thanks for the links and response, it has helped me move forward.

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Re: Re: dosemu/dosemu2
By: Amessyroom to Nightfox on Wed Jul 24 2024 05:47 pm

Yeah. His message subject was "dosemu/dosemu2" so I thought it might
surlffice if he couldn't find a dosemu2.

DOORs are new to me. And whichever works, so I can use it I will use.

With the fedora reference, rocky linux response in their chat server I have a working dosemu. But I'm hoping to get dosemu2 also, I've emailed a maintainer to see if I can obtain source rpm to recompile for rocky linux.

Fingers crossed. Thanks for the links and response, it has helped me move forward.

Good to hear you got something working for now. The thing with dosemu 1.x is that it doesn't seem to be able to run TradeWars 2002.. It's a fairly popular door game, and it's what made me install dosemu2 (and it seems you can't easily have both installed at the same time). There are some doors that don't seem to work very well with dosemu2 (I've seen some that run very slowly), but those seem fairly rare, and there may be alternative doors you can use.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: dosemu/dosemu2
By: Nightfox to Amessyroom on Thu Jul 25 2024 09:39:45

can't easily have both installed at the same time). There are some doors that don't seem to work very well with dosemu2 (I've seen some that run very slowly), but those seem fairly rare, and there may be alternative doors you can use.

Which games? I don't have any games that run slowly, in fact I have a couple that still run a bit too fast.

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Re: Re: dosemu/dosemu2
By: nelgin to Nightfox on Thu Jul 25 2024 12:56 pm

can't easily have both installed at the same time). There are some doors
that don't seem to work very well with dosemu2 (I've seen some that run
very slowly), but those seem fairly rare, and there may be alternative
doors you can use.

Which games? I don't have any games that run slowly, in fact I have a couple that still run a bit too fast.

There were a few trivia door games I noticed that ran very slowly: Sunrise Doors trivia, Star Trek Trivia (from Parole Software), and Facts (from LiveWire). I recall my PC showing very high CPU usage when running these doors, like they were running a loop of some kind. It could be a bug in those doors, though I think they ran okay with dosemu 1.4. I contacted the developer/maintainer of dosemu2 about it, and I remember him making a couple changes that he thought would help, but nothing seemed to help.

Nightfox

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