[GTALUG] KNOPPIX 7.6.0 and running old games

[Tim Tisdall]

I never played Railroad Tycoon, but there's an open source version called
OpenTTD and seems to be in active development.

On 29 November 2015 at 12:28, James Knott <james.knott at rogers.com> wrote:

> On 11/29/2015 12:11 PM, Daniel Villarreal wrote:
> > I found a neat use for the latest
> > Knoppix, i.e. running old DOS games...
> >
> > https://ideas2learn.wordpress.com/notes_gaming/
> >
> It's long been possible to run DOS apps on Linux.  I have a game called
> "Railroad Tychoon", from back in the '80s.  While it runs fine, because
> it was intended for old DOS boxes, where VGA was the latest & greatest,
> it only uses a small portion of my display.  I guess, for some reason,
> the developers didn't foresee 1080p resolution on computer monitors.  ;-)
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