Though you all might find it amusing that I took an old box,
installed MS DOS (either 5.0 or 6.0, can't remember right now)
and Angband 3.06,
and then set it to boot up right into Angband..
It's my dedicated Angband box. I turn it on..and boom! bandy goodness.
The only real downside is that I've gotta copy screenshots and char dumps to floppy if I decide to upload them.
..just a lil something to show there is life around here..
installed MS DOS (either 5.0 or 6.0, can't remember right now)
and Angband 3.06,
and then set it to boot up right into Angband..
It's my dedicated Angband box. I turn it on..and boom! bandy goodness.
The only real downside is that I've gotta copy screenshots and char dumps to floppy if I decide to upload them.
..just a lil something to show there is life around here..
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Re: Angband Box
Sat, December 15, 2007 - 9:50 AMYou may want to check out FreeDOS for a replacement. They're up to feature parity with MS-DOS 6.22, and (though I've never configured it myself) they are rumored to have networking support. Of course, they're binary compatible with MS-DOS, so any of your old roguelikes that are DOS specific can run just fine, even if they were distributed only as binaries.
It can also be used within virtual machines as a free replacement to digging up an old copy of DOS. It is usually shipped with the Linux program DOSEMU for just that purpose.
For roguelikes without tile-based graphics, it is possible to setup a console-only installation of Linux which not only takes up few resources and runs on slow hardware, but allows you to actually develop your own angband-variant on it.
