Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-06 Thread Cory Wiltshire
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been playing the original PC version using dosbox. simply emerge and run dosbox, and start playing, no configuration needed! - -- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler. --Albert Einstein. Cory Wiltshire

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-04 Thread Sami Näätanen
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 17:41, Spider wrote: begin quote On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 09:19:41 -0600 Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone mention a clone, or an emulator/VM setup that can play said old game? ( nope, the ps/2 that I ran it on originally is dead

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-04 Thread brett holcomb
What's UAE? Thanks. On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:00:42 +0200 Sami Näätanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 02 December 2003 17:41, Spider wrote: begin quote You could also download the original Amiga version and play it with UAE. It has better graphics than the DOS version. there is a WinUAE

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-04 Thread Oliver Lange
brett holcomb wrote: What's UAE? An Amiga emulator. The Amiga version of Prince Of Persia came with better graphics than the DOS version. I can remember playing POP on one of my Amigas.. :) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-03 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting brett holcomb -- Gee, I thought there was a new program in portage! There is also dosbox which is another emulator. I've been playing with both trying to get some old DOS stuff running. And did it work? -- Oh, cruel fate. Why do you mock me? --

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-03 Thread Francisco Andrades
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: | -- quoting brett holcomb -- | |Gee, I thought there was a new program in portage! There |is also dosbox which is another emulator. I've been |playing with both trying to get some old DOS stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-03 Thread Spider
begin quote On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 11:01:24 -0800 Wes Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:40:24AM +0100, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: -- quoting brett holcomb -- Gee, I thought there was a new program in portage! There is also dosbox which is

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-03 Thread David Friggens
From: Spider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Can anyone mention a clone, or an emulator/VM setup that can play said old game? * Van Eps, Nathan D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-12-02 09:19]: There is a DOS version of Prince of Persia you can download! There's also a Mac version on abandonware

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-02 Thread Spider
begin quote On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 23:40:24 -0600 Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure that most of you who own a TV in the US have seen one of the many commercials for the new game 'Prince of Persia: Sands of Time'. SNIP Okay, bringing this back On Topic, i'm not sure how many of

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-02 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Spider -- Okay, bringing this back On Topic, i'm not sure how many of you played the original, but I know it made a nice impression on me when I was in the age of such games. (that and the much later RayMan ;) And now I'm rummaging around for some

RE: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-02 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
There is a DOS version of Prince of Persia you can download! -Original Message- From: Spider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] begin quote On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 23:40:24 -0600 Andrew Gaffney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure that most of you who own a TV in the US have seen one of the many

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-02 Thread Spider
begin quote On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 09:19:41 -0600 Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone mention a clone, or an emulator/VM setup that can play said old game? ( nope, the ps/2 that I ran it on originally is dead ) There is a DOS version of Prince of Persia

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-02 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! On Tuesday 02 December 2003 15:33, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: I wonder, wouldn't it be possible to play it on a dos emulator for Linux? I don't know. My question would be, can you run old dos _graphical_ programs (like games) under dosuni? And is it possible to run it under FreeDOS?

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-02 Thread brett holcomb
You might also check out dosemu which is in portage, too. On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 20:36:52 +0100 Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! On Tuesday 02 December 2003 15:33, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: I wonder, wouldn't it be possible to play it on a dos emulator for Linux? I don't know.

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-02 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Tuesday 02 December 2003 20:45, brett holcomb wrote: You might also check out dosemu which is in portage, too. Yeah, I know check below. On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 20:36:52 +0100 Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! On Tuesday 02 December 2003 15:33, Matthias F. Brandstetter

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-02 Thread brett holcomb
Gee, I thought there was a new program in portage! There is also dosbox which is another emulator. I've been playing with both trying to get some old DOS stuff running. On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 21:02:53 +0100 Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 02 December 2003 20:45, brett

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-02 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 20:36:52 +0100 Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, I just checked portage and found a package games-emulation/dosbox which is a dos emulator for games. Maybe this one will work. I've tried playing DOOM on DosBox, and it's waay too slow. The statistic on

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-02 Thread brett holcomb
I believe the docs refer to Doom and Duke Nukem and say the will play but very slow G. I have a dual Athlon 1.9 so I'm interested to see what happens. On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 15:23:21 -0600 (CST) Joel Konkle-Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 20:36:52 +0100 Renat Golubchyk

Re: [gentoo-user] Back OT: Prince of Persia commercial

2003-12-02 Thread Peter Gantner
Quoting Spider from Dec 2 begin quote On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 09:19:41 -0600 Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone mention a clone, or an emulator/VM setup that can play said old game? ( nope, the ps/2 that I ran it on originally is dead ) There is a