Ubuntu 17.10

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#1

Hi. I’ve just installed RetroArch ver. 1.7.0. (which by the way works perfectly right) on my laptop PC, which runs Ubuntu ver. 17.10. So far, everything looks great!

Question No1: I’m mainly interested in DOS gaming. What am I supposed to do, after installing RetroArch?

(step-by-step instructions, in plain english please!!!)

Question No2: Let’s assume that I manage to set-up ArchLinux and play the game. But now, I want the original feeling on a CRT monitor. What am I supposed to do? How can I install, use that shaders?

(step-by-step instructions, in plain english please!!!)

By the way, I am a total n00b!!! HELP! :slight_smile:

#2

Some of this depends on where you installed from. Did you use the testing ppa? the stable ppa? The snap package? the flatpak package? something else?

1.) we have a dosbox core and you would typically just load core > dosbox-libretro > load content > yourgame.exe, IIRC. However, our dosbox core is pretty old and a number of games that work with standalone dosbox don’t work with RetroArch, unfortunately, so be prepared for that.

2.) Once you have a game loaded, go back into the menu (it should say ‘quick menu’ at the top of the screen) and go down to the ‘shader options’ sub-menu. From there, go to ‘load shader preset’ and navigate to where your shaders are stored and find a preset you want to try. If you don’t have any shaders, go to settings > directory and set your ‘video shaders’ directory to somewhere user-writeable and then go to the main menu > online updater and download the GLSL shaders.