[clug] USB to RS232 DB9 Adapter

Eyal Lebedinsky eyal at eyal.emu.id.au
Wed Aug 7 22:54:43 UTC 2019


On 08/08/2019 00.02, Bryan Kilgallin via linux wrote:
> Sorry, Steve:
> 
>>>> DOSBox is more for old DOS games than running DOS programs, you might
>>>> have more luck with DOSEmu.
>>>
>>> Neither Ubuntu Software nor Synaptic Package Manager list that.
>> Did you try a lower case version of the name?
> 
> Yes--no good.
> 
>> It certainly exists on
>> Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
> 
> Ubuntu Software lists emu2, which I installed. But launching from the former--crashed emu2. Also neither Activities GUI nor apropos in Terminal could find it. So I removed emu2!
> 
>> $ sudo apt search dosemu
>> Sorting... Done
>> Full Text Search... Done
>> <snip>
>>
>> dosemu/xenial 1.4.0.7+20130105+b028d3f-2 amd64
>>    DOS Emulator for Linux
> 
> That only gave this.
> 
> {
> console-cyrillic/bionic,bionic 0.9-17 all
>    Cyrillic fonts and keyboard layouts for Linux console
> 
> xfonts-terminus-dos/bionic,bionic 4.40-2 all
>    Fixed-width fonts for DOS encodings
> }
> 
>> A google for 'Ubuntu 18.04 DOSemu' suggests it also exists on later
>> versions.
> 
> I was out of luck.
> 
> In Ubuntu Software, I searched for "DOS emulator".
> Getting this list:
>      * dosbox-jz;
>      * emu2;
>      * jindosbox;
>      * jinhjdosbox;
>      * DOSBox-X; and
>      * DOSBox Emulator.

The fact that Steve can see the package and you cannot may suggest that you have different
repositories configured in
	/etc/apt/sources.list

-- 
Eyal at Home (eyal at eyal.emu.id.au)



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