DOSBox

Ever faced in a situation that you wanted to run Windows Applications (.exe) in Ubuntu ? Thanks to DOSBox.

    1. Download DOSBox from Ubuntu Software Center
    2. Go to http://turbo-c.soft32.com and download the zip file and extract it to ~/tc
    3. Open DOSBox and type the following
    4. mount c ~/tc/TURBOC3/BIN
    5. c:
    6. TC.exe

    • Some Short Cuts

    1. Ctrl + F10 For releasing mouse from the DOSBox window.
    2. Alt + Enter For Full Screen
    3. Edit dosbox-{version}.conf
      For Linux the configfile is created on the first run in ~/.dosbox/ The name is dosbox-{version}.conf where version is currently 0.74 
    • fullscreen=true
fulldouble=true
fullresolution=1366x768
windowresolution=1366x768
<strong>output=opengl</strong>
autolock=true

    There are other alternatives if you want to run TurboC on Linux codeblocks and NetBeans

    Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator)

    According to https://www.winehq.org Wine is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, & BSD.