Plus adding absolute paths here is helpful for launching the game from some other directory, like with the launcher. Windows uses backslashes: \ while Linux uses slashes: /. What's changing are native paths that are mounted. To avoid confusion - it's not about changing C and D, that's internal DosBox (DOS) syntax and it's right. So we change mount C "." to use correct absolute path as well as imgmount d -t iso -fs iso ".\SC.dat". We'll have to modify that to use Linux filesystem syntax (instead of Windows one). Note that the second file mounts an iso image for the game (SC.dat) as a virtual disk "D", and mounts the game directory as a virtual disk "C". The first file appears to be general DosBox settings, while the second one is actually for launching the game.
Look inside them - it's worth getting familiar with basic DosBox configuration in general. In this case you'll see: nf and dosboxSC_nf. Now take a look at provided DosBox configuration files. Let's say you saved the package in $HOME/Games/install/gog/strike_commander innoextract 1.4 worked for me (but I had to compile it from source, since current Debian testing still ships 1.2 which produces errors for current GOG packages):
Betrayal at krondor setup.exe install#
Unpack it with innoextract (no need to install it with Wine).
You can use the handy Linux GOG downloader for that ().Ģ. First, get the package (in my case it was setup_strike_commander_2.0.0.5.exe). So Linux users would need to perform some manual steps to play it using the native distro's DosBox (there surely is no point in running Windows DosBox through Wine).ġ. GOG packages DosBox with such DOS games, but targets Windows users.
I just got a Strike Commander from GOG (), which is an old DOS game, so in order to play it one would use DosBox. I usually do this for DosBox games from GOG, but new Linux users might be unfamiliar with the procedure. May be this would be useful to someone who is new to Linux.
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