Howdy,

I'm trying to run Pool of Radiance on Linux using the Windows-version with wine. I'm doing this so I can use the pretty awesome Gold Box Companion (see here: http://personal.inet.fi/koti/jhirvonen/gbc/)

So, essentially, I installed POR in a new wine prefix, unpacked the GBC into the same prefix, set wine for that prefix to emulate a desktop and started the GBC. Then, I start POR by clicking on the desktop icon on the emulated desktop. Lo' and behold, it works, POR start.
BUT (there's always a but in a forum post, is there? ;) ):
I run into the pesky "Insert Disk 3 into drive C" issue. Theoretically that should be easy to fix, as it's a wrong path in the POOL.CFG (see: https://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?showID=748&letter=P)
So, I edit
/home/me/.wine-folder/drive_c/GOG Games/ Pool of Radiance/POOLRAD/POOL.CFG
by setting the two paths to
C:\
C:\SAVE\
in the 3rd and fourth line. It works. That is, it works, IF I start just POR using dosbox, but NOT from the Desktop icon via the emulated desktop.

I have no idea how to fix that. It looks almost as if the icon starts a whole different instance of POR, but that's just not the case (nor really possible).

Can someone help figure that out?

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It's not even a question.