The original location can from URL: https://github.com/theonemule/dos-game Be careful, this is a x86_64 application (will not work on arm64).
- Create a folder.
- Place a copy of your game in the folder. I am using the shareware version of Commander Keen here. We used ms pacman 95 downloaded from https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/file/ms-pac-pc/mspacpc/
- In that folder, create a file called
Dockerfile
, paste in the following code.
FROM ubuntu:18.04
ENV USER=root
ENV PASSWORD=password1
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
ENV DEBCONF_NONINTERACTIVE_SEEN=true
COPY keen /dos/keen
RUN apt-get update && \
echo "tzdata tzdata/Areas select America" > ~/tx.txt && \
echo "tzdata tzdata/Zones/America select New York" >> ~/tx.txt && \
debconf-set-selections ~/tx.txt && \
apt-get install -y tightvncserver ratpoison dosbox novnc websockify && \
mkdir ~/.vnc/ && \
mkdir ~/.dosbox && \
echo $PASSWORD | vncpasswd -f > ~/.vnc/passwd && \
chmod 0600 ~/.vnc/passwd && \
echo "set border 0" > ~/.ratpoisonrc && \
echo "exec dosbox -conf ~/.dosbox/dosbox.conf -fullscreen -c 'MOUNT C: /dos'" >> ~/.ratpoisonrc && \
export DOSCONF=$(dosbox -printconf) && \
cp $DOSCONF ~/.dosbox/dosbox.conf && \
sed -i 's/usescancodes=true/usescancodes=false/' ~/.dosbox/dosbox.conf && \
openssl req -x509 -nodes -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout ~/novnc.pem -out ~/novnc.pem -days 3650 -subj "/C=US/ST=NY/L=NY/O=NY/OU=NY/CN=NY [email protected]"
PORT 6080
CMD vncserver && websockify -D --web=/usr/share/novnc/ --cert=~/novnc.pem 6080 localhost:5901 && tail -f /dev/null
- Replace the COPY keen /dos/keen with your game (ie. COPY wolf3d /dos/wolf3d). 1. You can also change the default password, or override it with a -e parameter when you run the image.
- Now, with Docker, build the image. I’m assuming you already have Docker installed and are familiar with it to some extent. CD to the directory in a console and run the command…
docker build -t mydosbox .
- Run the image.
docker run -p 6080:6080 mydosbox
- Open a browser and point it to http://localhost:6080/vnc.html
- You should see a prompt for the password. Type it in, and you should be able to connect to your container with DosBox running. You can now use the command prompt to start your games.
- Once your image is built, you can push it to your image repository with docker push, but you’ll need to tag it appropriately.