How to run a MS-DOS application in Wine?

Question

I have read that Wine supports or might support executing MS-DOS apps and games but my question is how. I can't find a way to execute them. I am trying Monkey Island for example or The 7th Guest. Using Wine 1.4rc2 right now.

The following link is why I ask this: http://wiki.winehq.org/WineReleaseCriteria?action=show&redirect=WineReleasePlan

It appears as if DosBox is integrated in Wine but this is the confusion. If it is already integrated, how to execute MS-DOS.

Solution 1

DOSBox is a good solution, but Dosemu is a more powerful option; for example, in DOSBox you can't use a printer.

$ sudo apt-get install dosemu

you can edit the configuration if it doesn't suit you:

$ vi /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf

see http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/oneiric/man1/dosemu.bin.1.html

Solution 2

ScummVM

For classic adventure based on games SCUMM I would recommend ScummVM (page in Software Center). It is less versatile than DOSBox in that it only runs specific titles, but those titles generally run better in ScummVM than they do in DOSBox. Monkey Island and The 7th Guest are both supported.

Solution 3

Here's one way how you can use DOSBox:

1. Install dosbox using Software Center.
2. Install nautilus-open-terminal using Software Center.
3. Open the file browser (Nautilus) and go to the folder that contains your DOS game.
4. Right click on some empty space and select 'Open Terminal Here'.
5. In the terminal type dosbox . -- note the single dot at the end of the command. It is important: it tells DOSBox that you want to make the current directory available as the C: drive inside the emulated DOS environment.
6. You'll get a DOSBox window with a C:\> prompt. Type the name of the executable (the file named something.exe or something.com or something.bat that you want to run)
7. Enjoy.

Comments

[Tachyons]

Installing Nautilus open termainal may crash nautilus in oneric many users have this issue including me :)

[Tachyons]

+he want to use dos apps with wine ,just double clicking and open without any command line pain

[Marius Gedminas]

Aboobacker Mk, can you link to the bug report in Launchpad? I've been using nautilus-open-terminal for ages, and haven't noticed any excessive Nautilus crashes yet.

[maniat1k13]

@AboobackerMk ok, on a script with execute permission, let's call it "dosemu.sh" dosemu /dir_of_program/program.exe that's all the after that just double click on the sh file..

[Luis Alvarado]

For the moment I have been told that Dosbox is not yet merged with Wine. When is merged it will work the same way as running Dosbox.