HI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This zip updated november 15 2011


Running F3 DOSBOX in Linux is fun and 
valuable and good and right -- it requires
somehow a faster PC than when running 
F3 Dosbox dosboxex.zip in Ms Windows.


WHAT IS THIS
The dosboxex.zip from norskesites.org/fic3
contains all the foundation for running 
Lisa GJ2 Fic3, GAME etc. It is oriented
towards getting it quickly onto a PC or
PC laptop bought in the store and these
days that means in most cases it has to
work with Ms Windows.
  This folder, dosbox_centos, contains
all the work by www.dosbox.com with their
GNU GPL open Source license entirely
untouched and recompiled for Centos from
version 5.5 and, supposedly, upwards
a fairly long while. 
  The source files are also rerepresented
at www.norskesites.org/fic3 and the
mirrorsite www.moscowsites.org/fic3.
  This folder then contains all that is
necessary to make the dosboxex.zip with
the Lisa GJ2 Fic3 programming language
start on the Centos -- it is, then, a
supplement to dosboxex.zip tailormade
towards Centos.
  Centos as installed may have to be
expanded with some packages before this
will start. The Add/Remove Software on
the menu for Centos will allow one to
search on keywords such as SDL then, 
given that one is online to internet,
one can install that which one hasn't
already installed. The file INSTALL
inside the folder will tell what the
main things are in addition to SDL, but
few of the extra things are necessary
in the usual situation.
  

HOW TO DO THIS -- THE FIRST INSTALL
You operate as a self-determined 
administrator on your PC with CentOS
and do as you want to, having root
password.
  So you make the folder dosdisk
by the command
  cd /
  mkdir dosdisk
and within this you put all the 
normal dosboxex.zip content.
  You make another folder, also on top,
like this:
  cd /
  mkdir dosbox_centos
and into this you put all the content
of this .zip, the dosbox_centos.zip,
if you haven't already done so.
  The file just named dosbox is the
file that ought to be given rights
to perform. This can be done like
this
  cd /dosbox_centos
  chmod 755 dosbox
Then we also need to make sure that
the config file which tells how to have
the dosdisk/boehm/boehmian folder set
as the core folder in the right place.
The right place, known to the dosbox
program, is, for the root user of the
Centos, this (and notice the dot):
  cd /root
  mkdir .dosbox
and inside this one, we get the .conf
file I have put on top in the 
dosbox_centos folder, like this
(and again notice the dot)
  cd /root
  cd .dosbox
  cp  /dosbox_centos/*.conf  .

  

HOW TO START IT ONCE INSTALLED LIKE THIS
Supposing it all works -- but you have
got to experiment in some cases, I suppose --
you can start it this way:
  cd  /dosbox_centos
  ./dosbox > test1.txt

This you can put into a file called 
anything you like, with dot sh completing
it, then give it the chmod 755 treatment
and you can type that shorter command
from other places (or make a graphical
command). The many needless errormessages
dosbox always produces in these cases are
here put in a file test1.txt which can be
deleted. The > test1.txt phrase does this.

Hope, then, that your PC is fast enough to
do all this complicated stuff well!

GOOD LUCK!!!

Acknowledgements for the Dosbox emulations
as normal to www.dosbox.com. 
The language itself, see norskesites.org/fic3
and new example programs, 
norskesites.org/fic3/fic3inf3.htm

-- Aristo w. L.A.H.