On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:31:17 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > The ancient laptop in question has about 24M main memory, a 2G hard > drive, a plug-in floppy drive, a CD drive, and a 10Mhz coaxial ethernet > PCMCIA card. (Remember those?) > The hard drive will probably fail one of these years. I'm surprised it > hasn't already. > It runs an ancient Windows system, probably Windows 95. > > I can probably rig up enough hardware on another machine to talk to its > ethernet. > > I can probably find a small enough Linux Live CD system to boot on it > and use the sshfs or NFS o copy the entire hard drive over the ethernet > connection. But recommendations would be very welcome. > > Getting the bits is only the first problem, though. Quite a few of > those files are in file formats that can only be understood by the > Windows software that also resides on that machine. > > Oh, the machine also contains one of my favourite legacy video games. > > I'd like to run all that in emulation (or otherwise (any suggestions?)) > on one of my new. shiny Debian boxes. > > Any suggestions as to what emulators are up to the challenge? Or better > ways of accomplishing the whole project? > > And would I have to rescue just the files or make an entire block-by- > block hard drive image? And would that image have to be in any > (preferably documented?) form?
DSL? Once you have the files transferred, I'd suggest trying with DosBox as a start. apt-cache search dosbox dosbox - A x86 emulator with Tandy/Herc/CGA/EGA/VGA/SVGA graphics, sound and DOS I've tried DosBox - Doom and DoomII run fine in it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j434rs$qpk$3...@dough.gmane.org