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I’m not a rabid linux fanboy trying to convert everyone.. but sometimes things work for the first time even when you just know they wont..  Something that I couldn’t get to work on my windows machine..

In an attempt to research the browser based game I am planning, I installed Masters of Orion (1) on my home PC and gave it a run.  Yeah.. it crashed the computer.   Old dos games just aren’t meant to run on the modern windows operating system.  So after a couple tries, I uninstalled it. (Read: deleted it)  No real loss, but it saddened me a bit.  I really wanted to give that old game a try just to remember what it was like.  It was nice that I could just down load it and give it a try..

One thing I noticed was that on the compatibility list it said it was compatible with DOSBox.   So of course I fired up Synaptic on my linux box and installed it.  MoO ran correctly the very first time.  It just worked.

I love that..  This is how computers are supposed to be!!

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna play some Masters of Magic.. hehe