[5 Mins Docker] Create Your Own 80s-90s DOS Gaming Website (1898 Games)

There are lots of Chinese DOS games in 1980s - 1990s. The Github page (https://github.com/rwv/chinese-dos-games)  collected them and created a docker image to simplify the steps to bring them up into a website. You even can create your own website with just a couple of simple commands. 

In this post, I am going to go through those steps in 5 minutes and show you how simple it is. 

Github Page: https://github.com/rwv/chinese-dos-games

Demo site: https://dos.lol/

Screenshots

Web Interface:

Game list:

Installation Steps in Docker Playground

PWD https://labs.play-with-docker.com/

$ apk add virt-what

$ virt-what

hyperv

docker

$ sudo apk update
fetch https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.16/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
fetch https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.16/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
v3.16.2-203-g16a4499ea3 [https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.16/main]
v3.16.2-202-ge26245aea1 [https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.16/community]
OK: 17053 distinct packages available
[node1] (local) [email protected] ~
$ sudo apk add git
OK: 395 MiB in 156 packages
[node1] (local) [email protected] ~
$ git --version
git version 2.36.2
[node1] (local) [email protected] ~
$ 

Note: If you are using PWD (Play with docker), the copy shortcut key is ctrl+insert, paste is ctrl+shift+v or ctrl+insert.

###############################################################
#                          WARNING!!!!                        #
# This is a sandbox environment. Using personal credentials   #
# is HIGHLY! discouraged. Any consequences of doing so are    #
# completely the user's responsibilites.                      #
#                                                             #
# The PWD team.                                               #
###############################################################
[node1] (local) [email protected] ~
$ df -m
Filesystem           1M-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
overlay                  10240         0     10240   0% /
tmpfs                       64         0        64   0% /dev

[node1] (local) [email protected] ~

We got 10G to play in this Docker Playground. 

1 Create installation folder:

sudo -i

mkdir -p /root/data/docker_data/games

cd /root/data/docker_data/games

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vi docker-compose.yml

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2 Create Own Security Policies

The all games will be about 36G. It will be too big for a docker image. 

So there are two different ways to install it.

Method 1: using default docker image which only has about 40 games. The docker image size is about 600MB. 

The docker compose file is:

version: '3.3'
services:
    dosgame-web-docker:
        container_name: dosgame
        ports:
            - '8090:262'  #8090 can be changed to any other unoccupied port.
#         volumes:
#             - '/root/data/docker_data/games/chinese-dos-games:/app/static/games'
        image: 'oldiy/dosgame-web-docker:latest'

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Once done, you can type "docker compose up -d" to bring it up. 

Then bring docker up

docker-compose up -d

Here are all games:

游戏列表

• 仙剑奇侠传
• 模拟城市 2000
• 美少女梦工厂 2
• 同级生 2
• 大富翁3
• 明星志愿1
• 三国志IV
• 金庸群侠传
• 轩辕剑1
• 轩辕剑2
• 皇帝
• 轩辕剑外传：枫之舞
• 疯狂医院
• 大航海时代
• 大航海时代2
• 银河英雄传说III SP
• 三国志II
• 三国志III
• 三国志V
• 三国志V 威力加强版
• 三国志英杰传
• 主题医院 无声音版
• 三国演义
• 三界谕：邦沛之迷
• 殖民计划
• 炎龙骑士团II‧黄金城之谜
• 倚天屠龙记
• 信长之野望·天翔记
• 信长之野望·霸王传
• 金瓶梅之偷情宝鉴
• 江南才子唐伯虎
• 暗棋圣手
• 太阁立志传
• 非洲探险2
• 主题医院
• 航空霸业2
• 中国球王
• 艾蒂丝魔法大冒险
• 卧龙传
• 天使帝国
• 魔域传说Ⅳ：波斯战记
• 魔法公主

Of course, if you don't like docker compose file, you can use following one command to bring this game docker up :

docker run -d --name dosgame -p 8090:262 oldiy/dosgame-web-docker:latest

3 Method 2 : Install all games.

If your spare hard drive size is more than 36G, then you can try to install all 1989 games by downloading them.

The docker compose file will be:

version: '3.3'
services:
    dosgame-web-docker:
        container_name: dosgame
        ports:
            - '8090:262'  #8090 can be changed any other unoccupied port.
        volumes:
            - '/root/data/docker_data/games/chinese-dos-games:/app/static/games'
        image: 'oldiy/dosgame-web-docker:latest'

You will need to manually download the game using following commands:

cd /root/data/docker_data/games/

git clone https://github.com/rwv/chinese-dos-games.git

cd chinese-dos-games/

python3 download_data.py




Then bring docker up

docker-compose up -d

If there is no python or git, you might also need to run following commands to install them:

• apt update -y
• apt install git -y && apt install python3 -y

4  Check game files

After completed download, you can check file numbers using this command：

ls -l /root/data/docker_data/games/chinese-dos-games/bin | grep "^-" | wc -l

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The total number should be 1898

You also can use du command to check：

du -sh /root/data/docker_data/games

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Check total file size. It should be 36G：

36G /root/data/docker_data/games

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5  Bring up the game

cd /root/data/docker_data/games

docker-compose up -d

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or

/root/data/docker_data/games

docker compose up -d

Installation Pre-requirements

Free resources you might need to complete this docker project:

• Server: Oracle Free VPS, Azure Free VPS, Google Cloud Free VPS, and others
• Create a Free Tier Windows/Linux Azure VPS VM
• [Free VPS] GCP (Google Cloud Platform) Tips and Tricks (Free 16G RAM, 4 vCPU VPS)
• System: Cloud Vendor Ubuntu, Debian, or DD an original version
• SWAP size increase: wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/51sec/swap/main/swap.sh && bash swap.sh
• Enable Password ssh login
• Enable BBR
• systemctl restart docker
• Domain: (Optional) EU.ORG to get a free one, free Cloudflare account to manage your domain
• Confirm port has not been used (you might need to install lsof using command : apt install lsof):
• lsof -i:8088
• Check cpu & memory info
• lscpu
• cat /proc/cpuinfo
• htop

Pre-installed services:

• Docker, 
• apt update
• apt install docker.io
• apt install docker-compose
• apt upgrade docker.io
• mkdir /root/data/docker_data/<docker_name>
• Docker-Compose (Using Ubuntu OS for the commands)
• Docker-compose down
• Optional command : use following command to backup your Docker data. You might need to change your folder name based on your docker configuraiton
• cp -r /root/data/docker_data/<docker_name> /root/data/docker_data_backup/<docker_name>
• docker-compose pull
• docker-compose up -d
• docker image prune
• Portainer (Optional)
• docker volume create portainer_data
• docker run -d -p 9000:9000 --name portainer --restart always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer-ce:latest
• Install some applications: apt install wget curl sudo vim git (Optional)
• aapanel with Nginx (Optional)
• Nginx Proxy Manager (Optional)
• Install screen (Optional)
• Install screen (Depends on the Linux Distribution if it came pre installed or not) : yum install screen
• Initiate a Screen : screen or  screen -S <screen name> <command to execute>
• Detach from the screen : "CTRL+A,D" not "CTRL+A+D"
• List all the screen currently working : screen -ls
• Reattach to a screen : screen  -r  <session number> or screen -r <screen name>
• Kill specific screen: screen -X -S <screen name> quit
• Kill all screens : pkill screen

Install it from GCP Free VPS

 

1  Create VPS

2  Install Docker & Docker Compose

3  Install required system services and applications

4  Docker Compose file or Docker Run

docker run -d --name dosgame -p 8090:262 oldiy/dosgame-web-docker:latest

5  Download All games (Optional)

docker run -d --name dosgame -p 8090:262 -v /docker_data/dosgame/games:/app/static/games oldiy/dosgame-web-docker:latest

6  Bring docker up 

Docker-compose up -d

Videos

 

References

• https://zaixianwan.app/ 老游戏在线玩
• https://flash.homes/  Flash 保存计划
• https://dosdeck.com/