Regarding my system... heh, It's an intel NUC with Linnux debian loaded on it. This was a gift from my landlord, a high-level programmer guy who grew up with Jobs, etc here in the Bay Area where I live. My landlord thinks I should be weaned from windows and brought into the linnux fold. So I'm struggling to learn a new language, at an age where I'm really too old to learn new tricks. I have Dosbox loaded, and that's what I was trying to run Starcon in. DOS is where I started, and I'm comfortable with the interface. Anybody know of a good Linnux tutorial?

Well, shoot. The file came as a .tgz. I looked up how to load this kind of file, and it's beyond my current abilities. I could learn, I suppose. Don't want to. Just wanted to play this old favorite.

Thanks guys. Will download UQM

I played this game back in the '90s, solved it completely, but wanted to play it again. Downloaded from the abandonia site, started it on dosbox, and got the intro going. But it gets to the verification, and puts a star on the screen, but no coordinates. I got the starmap. How do I get past this verification?