O Digger! My Digger!... blah blah.. now the DEAD SHALL LIVE AGAIN!

For those people who are in their early & mid 30's DOS was most likely the introduction to computers. The one thing as kids we all did was play games. Some were good and some were.. well great :). We were kids anything with colour and moved to a press of a button was miraculous. CONTROL!!!!!

so long long time ago..

You slotted a 5" Floppy disc into a disk drive slot and closed the lever shut turned the power on and prayed you did not get -- unable to read disk message! and when it does boot then we hoped the DOS disk  worked correctly so it could boot the computer.

Then we removed the DOS disk and slotted the game disk in, at the " A:> "(for those lucky few who had 2 disk drives we changed to "B:>" by typing "b:" ) typed "dir" and listed the content hoping the annoying little brother did not erase the disk. Searched for filename.com or filename.exe file we typed the filename and then the adventure starts.

My sayang the muppet spent hours and hours playing her favorite game. DIGGER (mine too).

We spent hours playing this game. It was exciting trying to get away from the monster. Then we had VGA and bye bye DIGGER!

The playstation's and xbox's of the world (even the mobile phone) has rendered these games ancient and obsolete.

Now for muppets sake! there is a new life for these games. dosbox!! bringing the the dead to life.

present day.....

(Only works for Linux/Debian/Ubuntu users.. sorry windows folks :P)

fire up the CLI *(The Terminal) - type

sudo apt-get install dosbox

mkdir ~/dos

dosbox

when you see the familiar "Z:>" drive type

config -writeconfig /home/yourname/dos

thats it your almost done. type

exit

now type into the CLI

nano ~/dos/dosbox.conf

or any other editor for those who prefer GUI then goto the dos folder in your home folder and gedit the file. Now we are going to make the ~/dos folder as your "C:>" for that go down the dosbox.conf file and look for [autoexec] and just add this below that;

mount c ~/dos

c:

save and exit. your done. Just goto DIGGER and download the file dump it into the ~/dos folder start dosbox from the CLI and you'll see the the folder you copied there. CD and... main main ;).. dah habis cerita.