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The favorite game of my high-school years, seconded only by Death Rally.

Conflict

It used to crash when nukes were detected in Iraq or Syria on some old computers...

[edit] Score: 275! I was lucky, Egypt collapsed on its own.
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Does it run under wine? ;)
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No idea, I was at a library computer when I posted that. Downloading now...

Unfortunately, it seems not. :(

Some effort will get it working, no doubt. Did you give it a shot?
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I'm reinstalling wine right now, actually. Uninstalled it for some weird reason.

Maybe dosbox or something? There's got to be a way, short of win98/vmware, to run old dos games...
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dosemu, rather. Maybe I'll try that and get back to you...
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DO NOT try to run it under wine. It made everything wonky...
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Ok, the solution is really simple.

1) Install freedos, dosemu, and all dependencies.
2) Run xdosemu.
3) Move the files into a directory in ~/freedos, assuming you "installed" freedos there.
4) cd into the directory and RUN!
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You rule! I'll try that tomorrow.
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No prob. You do need to run xdosbox from the terminal - don't think I specified that. ;)

This is a difficult game! :o

But fun! :D
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So should I get the 12 MB ISO file for FreeDOS?

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stu ... /beta9sr2/
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No, just install the packages through YAST. They should be there. :)
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I didn't see any packages labeled 'freedos' in Yast...
Installation Sources:
[x]  SUSE LINUX Version 10.0 (cd:///;devices=/dev/sr0)
[x]  SUSE LINUX Version 10.0 (ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distr ... st-source/)
[x]  SUSE LINUX Version 10.0 (ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/suse/i386/10.0 ... rce-extra/)
[x]  SUSE LINUX Version 10.0 (ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distr ... urce-java/)
[x]  SUSE LINUX Version 10.0 (ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/suse/i386/10.0 ... -GM-Extra/)
[x]  supplementary KDE 3.5 update (ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/suse/i386/supp ... ast-source)
[x]  supplementary GNOME 2.12 update (ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/suse/i386/supp ... ast-source)
[x]  guru (SUSE LINUX 10.0) (ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/10.0/)
[x]  scorot rpms (SUSE LINUX 10.0) (ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-scorot/suse100/)
[x]  contributions by Robert Schiele (http://pi3.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/~ ... suse/10.0/)
[x]  Packman (SuSE LINUX 10.0) (http://packman.inode.at/suse/10.0/)
[x]  SUSE LINUX Version 10.0 (http://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/dist ... st-source/)
[x]  SUSE LINUX Version 10.0 (http://suse.mirrors.tds.net/pub/opensus ... st-source/)
[x]  supplementary applications and tools (http://mirrors.kernel.org/suse/i386/sup ... st-source/)

[edit] I will say this for Windows, they have great binary compatibility backwards. I launched that 16-year old binary on a WinXP system yesterday and it worked without a hitch, requiring absolutely no user effort. No doubt that will remain true with Longhorn as well.
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In actual fact, I do believe that installing dosemu on its own works. I think it comes with a freedos install.
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293 and nuked Egypt. Where they suddenly pulled 2000 tanks from is anybody's guess.
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Is there a secret to developing nukes? It always tells me two months, but it takes a lot longer.

After I managed to hold off the Egyptian lines for 7 months, they nuked me. Egypt was mean. :(
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