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Especially given how many games on GOG are old dos games that just run in DoxBOX and would be trivial to make bundled linux packages for... I've had great succ

Especially given how many games on GOG are old dos games that just run in DoxBOX and would be trivial to make bundled linux packages for... I've had great success installing dos-based GOG games through WineBottler (http://wiki.winehq.org/WineBottler http://wiki.winehq.org/WineBottler), diving into the package, moving the relevant files out, and stuffing them in Boxer (http://boxerapp.com/ http://boxerapp.com/) and they run pretty awesome on my mac.

shmerl 14y ago
For GOG installers you can simply use innoextract to unpack all the files, to avoid using installer through Wine: http://constexpr.org/innoextract/ http://constexpr.org/innoextract/ The proposal above is really more about giving an option of native Linux games when they are available. Often GOG offers a Windows version, while Linux or Mac OSX variants aren't offered even if they exist. Having a DosBox / ScummVM games packaged for Linux is good, but that's not the main point of that vote.
lloeki 14y ago
> would be trivial to make bundled linux packages for... Boxer makes this especially trivial on OSX, there's no reason similar (or even the same) game containers could not be created for Linux.