Play Dune2 on Debian Linux with Dosbox - Dune 2 Mother of All Real Time Strategy Games

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Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty (known also as Dune II: Battle for Arrakis in Europe is a game that my generation will never forget. Dune 2 is the "first" computer Real Time Strategy (RTE) game of the genre of the Warcraft I and Warcraft II / III and later Command and Conquer - Red Aleart, Age of

Empires I / II and Starcraft ...

I've grown up with Dune2 and the little computer geek community in my school was absolutely crazy about playing it. Though not historically being the first Real Time Strategy game, this Lucas Inc.

game give standards that for the whole RTE genre for years and will stay in history of Computer Games as one of best games of all times.

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I've spend big part of my teenager years with my best friends playing Dune2 and the possibility nowadays to resurrect the memories of these young careless years is a blessing. Younger computer enthusiasts and gamers probably never heard of Dune 2 and this is why I decided to place a little post here about this legendary game.

Its worthy out of curiosity or for fun to play Dune 2 on modern OS be it Windows or Linux. Since Dune is DOS game, it is necessary to play it via DOS emulator i.e. - (DosBox). Here is how I run dune2 on my Debian Linux:

1. Install dosbox DOS emulator apt-get install --yes dosbox

2. Download Dune2 game executable

You can download my mirror of dune2 here

Note that you will need unzip to uanrchive it, if you don't have it installed do so:

apt-get install --yes unzip

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cd ~/Downloads/ wget http://www.pc-freak.net/files/dune-2.zip

3. Unzip archive and create directory to mount it emulating 'C:\' drive

mkdir -p ~/.dos/Dune2 cd ~/.dos/Dune2 unzip ~/Downloads/dune-2.zip

4. Start dosbox and create permanent config for C: drive auto mount dosbox

To make C:\ virtual drive automatically mounted you have to write a dosbox config from inside dbox console

config -writeconf /home/hipo/.dosbox.conf

My home dir is in /home/hipo, change this with your username /home/username

Then exit dosbox console with 'exit' command

To make dune2 game automatically mapped on Virtual C: drive:

echo "mount c /home/hipo/.dos" >> ~/.dosbox.conf

Further to make dosbox start each time with ~/.dosbox.conf add alias to your ~/.bashrc vim ~/.bashrc echo "alias dosbox='dosbox -conf /home/hipo/.dosbox.conf'" >> ~/.bashrc source ~/.bashrc

Then to run DUNE2 launch dosbox: dosbox and inside console type:

c: cd Dune2 Dune2.exe

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For the lazy ones who would like to test dune you can play dune 2 online on this website

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