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Bring all DOSboxed games also to Linux and Mac
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kero42 It seems to require very little extra work to bring a game running inside DOSBox also to platforms other than Windows, yet there are many good old games where this hasn't happened yet.
68erna This would grow the range of buyers, think about it ;)
temps Bringing them to Linux sounds good but Mac seems like a big tech garbage OS so I don't really see the point in that.
tinysalamander Hello, GOG, plz wake up.
SpellSword Indeed! Please do this. All games that are using DOSBox for windows should also have a Linux (And Mac...) version as well.
zloba_rus I vote for inclusion of this feature and ESPECIALLY for bundling of original Dos/Win95 install files with the purchased GoG version.
throAU Yeah, i get it if you guys don't have time to dosbox package ALL DOS games for Mac and Linux, but Mac users have "Boxer" which is actually preferable to your own packages because it is cake to set up MT-32 emulation, and Linux users are likely cluey enough or motivated to figure it out themselves if they have to.
letmetrythisname I really don't see an excuse not to do this anymore. I don't get why only 10% of my DOSBox-based games have Linux installers.
Kekkula Still no option to download just the .zip files for linux. Just tried to install might and magic 1 -> no go. I just get windows installer witch I can't open in linux.
>noderunner_ It's suprisingly common on other platforms as well for DOSBOX games to neglect cross-platform. It'll result in a few more sales and it's rather easy to package.
ciamej Come on! Do something about it! It's relatively easy to prepare mac/linux installers for a dosboxed game... or at least give as archives instead of windows installers
p00ckiy It's still not a thing. But why?
Randall1976 c'mon GOG! it isn't that hard of a request! or are the publishers themselves keeping you from doing it? at least tell us
gliamonster Just ditch the lousy windows install wrappers. Just give us archives of the DOS installers.
pnptcn Why hasn't this been done yet? Steam is kicking your butts in the Linux department.
ZMacZ Umm..download DOSBOX for linux or Mac ? run game ?..how hard is that ?
You can even do a WIN 98/XP emulation on DOSBOX...well..at least I had one like that..
Hmm..maybe some advanced gamer support like a "gamers for gamers" section in a new heading under community ?..well..basically I'd say first run DOSBOX with the imagefile of the game into the .conf file of DOSBOX.
just add at the bottom "mount <name and path of imagefile>",
just before the actual running of the program..
It would look like:
Mount C "..\isle"
bi
That's for Battle isle...
p00ckiy Why isn't this a feature already? I mean, it's not like they would have to port anything to Linux. If they can offer Linux installers for some DOS games, they can offer them for all of them.
torp This would be a great feature - I just tried to install Might and Magic 3 on my Mac and found out there is no official wrapper and I can't get the game files to run in my own dosbox without using Windows either. Just stick a zip file in there as the mac/linux version, we'll manage.
josekiller This is VERY important. Come on GOG!
hollunder It would be really great if we (Linux users, probably Mac as well) could just get the dos content without a windows installer. We use the system dosbox anyway, with the appropriate setup. Maybe hints regarding game specific dosbox options would be useful in addition.
mullet_death I would really, really appreciate this, especially since I don't even have a Windows partition to use instead.
sirkku I hope GOG will do this someday.
I really want to play Stonekeep in linux.
Lin545 Yes please. Basically we have to run your installer under wine, then abort it and extract the DOS content, then repackage it. For every game. I have already written to GOG, if they provide separate archive with just DOS game (installer.exe, game.7z), then everyone would be much happier.
pedalpowered I would love to see this happen! It's a pain having to extract the files from the exe. Just having an archive file of just the game files and, ideally, the config file, would be sufficient, and would dramatically increase the games available for both platforms.
nephitejnf I have seen many games such as Dungeon Keeper and Theme Hospital that work perfectly in DOSBox on linux. I think it would be an awesome idea to have a linux ready package, I don't see why the community couldn't help with packaging that. It would also add more linux games to the library and help encourage a growing linux gaming community.
Bluddy I don't understand why this cannot be done easily. It's about one day's worth of work to get ALL dosbox games working on linux and mac as well.
Vyazhan Bump, this should be easy to do! :)
Andtha You can always download the Windows version, install or otherwise extract its contents (I didn’t try the later) and copy the extracted files over to your Linux/Mac system and use them manually with DOSBox.
But I agree, it should be provided with Linux and Mac DOSBox. On Linux this can only be generic thou, because DOSBox is normally installed through a package manager. And Linux runs on so many different platforms and CPU architectures. Where do you stop?
tjbaxter I think this is a great idea.
jakx2ob Just distributing zip files instead of setup exes would be great. Took me some time to figure out that it is possible to extract the nessesary files for dosbox with innoextract.
sonicpp Yep, I am still waiting for Realms of Arkania for Linux :)
consumerism87 Also, what little work it takes to create DOSBox wrappers for Mac and Linux, could be outsourced to the community. I'd be happy to volunteer.
niculinux That's kinda mandatory, for a linux user :)
Ugzuzg www.dosbox.com/information.php?page=0
"DOSBox has already been ported to many different platforms, such as Windows, BeOS, Linux, MacOS X..."
DracoMagister I don't to use wine unless there is no other option. And for DOS games there is. This should be difficult, just add an alternative download.
mbybee I'd really like to see a dosbox package for linux. Having to go via PlayOnLinux to emulate Windows emulating DOS just seems so pointless when there's already DosBox for Linux.
Petrell GOG needs permission from rights owners to distribute Linux versions (wether it's native or ran under Wine/DOSBox/ScummVM). So unless lawyer fees are prophitive for either side, it's only a matter of time.
MaddTheSane IIRC, the OS X DOS packages have a special Boxer file inside of them, which can be opened by a beta version of Boxer.
zerothis I already have DOSBox so a generic package would be nice. But since GOG won't do that... Yes, packaged and labeled as a DOSBox game for Linux would be fine. I'd like to play Ultima IV without jumping through magical hoops to extract it from the Windows EXE.
Stormbolter I agree. This should be already implemented.
RFS81.773 Hm, too bad there's so little interest in this.
LexaGrey DosBox is pretty lightweight and I prefer my mac games to be all in a single launchable bundle with a high rez icon. I think it would be great if they could mac "mac" versions of everything that runs great in DosBox with perhaps some GOG app to tweak settings per app.
Hassel_KR__ Hi everyone,
until this gets implemented you could use innoextract constexpr.org/innoextract/ to extract the files from the installer. this can be easily automated no need for wine just to extract.
Bye and have fun playing old classics in linux.. im doing it too ;)
DarkUranium I think the best solution would be to simply add the "raw" zipped DOS games, without any emulator or anything, and let the users use their own if they want to. Of course, this is to be provided in parallel with the "usual" installers.
BeShaMo This one is pretty obvious. The majority of the Dosbox games works just fine in Linux if you run the native Dosbox with the bundled config files, sometime with a minimum of tweaking (switching from D3D to OpenGL for example).
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