Play Mechwarrior 2 using DosBox emulator for Ubuntu

Written on December 31st , 2023 by James

Why play old games?

I’m nostalgic about old Dos games from growing up with these in the 1990s. It’s amazing to see images and hear sounds that take you back to simpler times. MechWarrior 2 was one of those games that I loved. The soundtrack is awesome too.

Getting DosBox

I installed DosBox emulator by simply using the Ubuntu software tool. But you can install it simply by typing

sudo apt install dosbox

To run it type

dosbox

Getting Mechwarrior 2

I downloaded Mechwarrior from here.

Running it

Once unziped to somewhere like home/games/MW2 you simply need to run it in dosbox by typing the following commands:

mount c ~/games

Which mounts a location on your machine as a pretend C drive.

Then (somewhat specific to Mechwarrior) you run this to mount the CDrom image of the game as a virtual CDrom

imgmount d ~/games/MW2/mech/MECH2_16B.cue -t iso -fs iso

Then all you need to do is locate the main executable file to run the game. For me that is:

cd MW2/mech/MECH2
MECH2.EXE

Enjoy!