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Hi, sorry if this has been posted before (though I don't think it has) but I'm trying to run JA1 on Linux (Mint 8, to be precise). I installed it using Wine and tried to run it with native DosBox (doing all the appropriate procedures, including "imgmount" of the JA1.gog file), but when I start it up I get a message like: "Error: Problem reading cdrom. Please check"
Any help on the matter will be appreciated
Edit: I just tried JA:DG and it works fine
Post edited June 06, 2010 by Dominic998
Thats a tricky one for linux ... for windows if you change the cd.rom file with the drive letter your install is on it would work ... but because linux is usually /cdrom or similar the game wouldn't read that .... Glad you found your way :)
try mounting the inst file if present.
be sure to check its contents first regarding case sensitive filenames
To get it to work, I had to change the imgmount line in dosboxjadg.conf to the following:

imgmount d jadg.gog -t iso -fs iso

I can now start it with

dosbox -conf dosboxjadg.conf
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Dominic998: Hi, sorry if this has been posted before (though I don't think it has) but I'm trying to run JA1 on Linux (Mint 8, to be precise). I installed it using Wine and tried to run it with native DosBox (doing all the appropriate procedures, including "imgmount" of the JA1.gog file), but when I start it up I get a message like: "Error: Problem reading cdrom. Please check"

Any help on the matter will be appreciated

Edit: I just tried JA:DG and it works fine
$ grep imgmount dosboxja.conf
imgmount d "./JA1.gog" -t iso -fs iso
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spoonmeiser: To get it to work, I had to change the imgmount line in dosboxjadg.conf to the following:

imgmount d jadg.gog -t iso -fs iso

I can now start it with

dosbox -conf dosboxjadg.conf
Just an update if someone else finds this thread.
Currently, GOG delivers JA1 with two dosbox conf files and it doesn't run well using Wine. So, you install it with WIne but then have to run it with native linux dosbox. The file dosboxja_single.conf needs to be modified, starting from imgmount, as:

imgmount d JA1.gog -t iso -fs iso
c:
cls
cd JAGGED~1
JA.EXE
exit

Be careful with capital letters.

In the terminal, cd to the JA folder and then, after the edits in the conf file, run JA with the command:

dosbox -conf dosboxja.conf -conf dosboxja_single.conf
Post edited June 30, 2018 by fmartins