I've managed to run DK on Ubuntu 11.04 using Linux version of DOSBox v 0.74 and the "dosboxDK.conf" file from game directory. Unfortunately game hangs on start-up obviously signalling me to insert CD (big image of CD with an question mark). I know Linux isn't supported OS, but is there any chance anyone knows what to do with this? :-)

That is not a Linux-only problem. I have the same issue with Windows 7 (64 bit). I can start the game normally, but as soon as I change some options I cant start the game anymore with the same issue you have. Even restoring the original settings does not help. The only solution I found was a complete re-install but thats quite unsatisfying. I hope someone knows how to deal with that problem.

I am not sure if your and mine problems are related. I'm doing some tweaking on the dosboxDK.conf file and so far figured two things which are probably different on Linux. And I think my issue is the GAME.INST file isn't mounting in DOSBox.

Have you tried changing 'cycles=80000' to 'cycles=max' in 'dosboxDK.cnf'?

yeah, could be a different problem. Sounded the same at first so I thought it could be related. Never mind :-)

I've managed to get it working on Linux! (Beyond check for CD anyway, haven't tried to play yet.) If anyone is interested - I moved the games files into ~/DK, changed last bit in dosboxDK.conf to this:

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
mount C ~/DK
c:
imgmount d "GAME.INST" -t iso -fs iso
cls
Keeper.exe
exit

and then run command "dosbox -conf dosboxDK.conf"

But sound still sucks and nmillar's solution (cycles doesn't work for me. :( Ideas anyone?

In the '[mixer]' section, try:

rate=49716
blocksize=8192
prebuffer=100

Increasing prebuffer and setting cycles to max seems to do the job. Thank you, now I can happily slap imps. :D

Many thanks for this very useful thread. DK works now perfectly on my Ubuntu computer. It took me a while to make it work though, it was my first time using DOSbox ^^'

Glad to hear it was useful to you! Great game on great operating system, it's like heaven :D

Thanks for this thread. I'm having an issue getting DK to work. I think it's that the line:

"imgmount d "game.inst" -t iso -fs iso"

Returns the error:

"The image must be on a host or local drive."


EDIT:
Aha fixed it! That took all of 30 seconds. For some reason DOSbox didn't like some of the files being spelled in caps. Changed everything to lowercase (filenames and dosboxDK.conf) and everything works fine!

I was playing using wine before (just did the install as if I was on windows) and the performance was pretty dire. Now it's super smooth.

Linux is case sensitive. :-)

Does OS X use ~/ for the current user's home drive? I know it's built on UNIX, but I actually don't remember. You could try giving an absolute path (on Linux, this would be /home/username/DOS/DK/IMAGE.INST).