I'm a Linux user. I used Wine to install the Windows installer from GOG, and I'm grateful that the GOG team leaves the dosbox configs in clear text. The Windows DOSBOX install does not play nicely under Wine (fullscreen switching, for example, hides the window), so I simply reconfigured the dosbox configs and copied the files I needed to a Linux native path, and it works like a champ.

Hey, GOG team, save a brother some hassle, and package this bad boy for Linux? It runs quite well.

GOG staff do not reliably read the game forums. You are more likely to get a change if you submit this through the support portal.

Which game(s) did you do this on? My recollection is that the last time I tried this with M&M 4/5 (World of Xeen), the filename capitalization in one of the control files was wrong in many places, which Windows ignored, but which broke on Linux until I fixed the capitalization in the configuration file to match the capitalization of the installed files.

Just FYI, using a recent (probably too recent for your distro) innoextract allows you to avoid wine entirely.

However, like some other games here, there are tools that enhance the experience that are only available for Windows, and have no source (that I'm aware of) and therefore no chance of being ported (only a slim chance of being reimplemented from scratch). If you want the automapper "Where are we?" you'll have to use Windows. I prefer to live without. Specifically, GAME1.INS and GAME2.INS, according to my notes. Not just capitalization, but also use of \ instead of /. Common issues when dealing with any CD "images" supplied by Windows users. Otherwise you won't be getting any CD music. At least, unlike, say, Tomb Raider, you don't have to also convert the audio track format.

I've done a couple, like Covert Ops, among others.

You might can help me out, though. While the imgmount syntax works in Linux, Ctrl-F4 to flip images won't, and yes, I do have both images listed. Can you share the fixes you made to get both discs working?

Ctrl+F4 works for me with these changes to the configuration file:

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--- dosboxMM4-5_settingsCD.conf
+++ dosboxMM4-5_settingsCD.conf
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.

@ECHO OFF
-mount C ".."
-imgmount d "..\game1.inst" "..\game2.inst" -t iso
+mount C "."
+imgmount d "GAME1.INST" "GAME2.INST" -t iso
c:
cd world
cls
install.exe

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I made those changes years ago, and no longer recall why. However, I did test them just now, and a new party can go to Darkside by leaving Vertigo, visiting the pyramid, then I press Ctrl+F4, release both, then press Enter. I also tested returning to Clouds, and that worked as well.

Might and Magic World of Xeen works on Linux with dosbox-074-3 (the latest version). In fact, the floppy version of the game works perfectly.
Unfortunately, I was unable to make the CD version work. It works until you need to swap CDs. If you run dosbox from a terminal you will see that CD swapping is supposed to work, as you get the message "Drive D: disk 2 of 2 now active".However, whenever you need to swap CD images, the game freezes (dosbox is still running though, so you can exit with Ctrl+F9). I tried several tweaks to make the CD version work but so far I was unable to find a solution. I suspect that it's a problem concerning dosbox itself.