dopewars and Microsoft Windows

dopewars is designed primarily for Unix systems such as Linux, but it can be made to work under Microsoft Windows (NT, 95, 98, 3.1) and even later versions of MS-DOS. Three approaches to the problem are outlined below:-
Install Linux
The best way to run a Linux program is to install Linux! Recent distributions of Linux (such as RedHat) are a lot more user-friendly than traditional Unix systems, and will co-exist happily with Windows. Linux is free, and so should cost you no more than the price of a cheap CD-ROM or (if you have a fast connection) an FTP download. A small Linux installation should consume significantly less than 500MB, and you might even learn something in the process!

Cygwin
The Cygwin library "provides a UNIX-like API on top of the Win32 API" (i.e. it allows programs such as dopewars to be compiled on Windows 95, 98 and NT). The procedure for compiling dopewars with Cygwin is as follows:-

DJGPP
DJGPP is an implementation of the Unix libraries for DOS systems (on processors of 386 class or higher). DJGPP programs will also work happily within DOS boxes under Microsoft Windows. DJGPP yields a dopewars binary which runs a lot faster than the equivalent Cygwin program, but the implementation of sockets (i.e. networking) will only work if the program is run within a DOS box under Windows 95 (note that Windows 98 uses a different version of WinSock, and so will not work). If, however, you only wish to use single-player mode, this is acceptable. The procedure for installation with DJGPP is as follows:-


Last update: 11-10-99