Programs designed and and compiled for a specific operating system could be run on another operating system either via virtualisation or emulation. DOSBox
is an emulation program in Linux
to run DOS
programs.
DOSBox
is available in most Linux
distribution package repository and could easily be installed and run from the command line.
DOS
programs if you don't already have a copy. $ cd ~/Downloads/ ~/Downloads$ unzip Golden\ Axe.zip Archive: Golden Axe.zip inflating: _DOSGAME.TXT inflating: A inflating: AMAZON.SPR ##### snipped
DOSBox
. $ sudo apt update && sudo apt install --assume-yes dosbox # Ubuntu and Debian
DOS
program via DOSBox
. $ dosbox GOLD.EXE DOSBox version 0.74-2 Copyright 2002-2018 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL. --- CONFIG: Generating default configuration. Writing it to /home/user/.dosbox/dosbox-0.74-2.conf ##### snipped
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