VOGONS


First post, by DailyFrankPeter

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Hi,

It is sold as Windows only, but seeing that it is DOSBox-based, has anyone managed to get it working on Linux/Ubuntu? I'm having a problem here. The main way it differs from X-Com Apocalypse covered here:

Tips for getting X-Com: Apocalypse working

...is in the lack of the install program on the CD, nor the CD itself. GOG distribution of the game seems to come already 'pre-installed'. I have managed to get the setup.exe running (but this is a sound setup utility only). By using:

> mount d /<GOGgamefolder> -t cdrom
> d:
> setup

Which only seems to prove that CD emulation is important, as it does not run when mounted to C, or when not using the '-t cdrom' argument. Now, running:

> d:
> install

Will not work (obviously) since this executable isn't supplied by GOG. On the other hand going straight to this:

> d:
> xcomapoc

Will throw an error about not being able to create swap file and 'initialize VMM' (but I imagine '-t cdrom' makes it read-only so not surprised here). Also, doing simply this:

> mount c /<GOGgamefolder>
> c:
> xcomapoc

Will make the program run for a second or two, with no video at all showing, then return to DOXBox prompt. I'd appreciate any help!

Reply 1 of 3, by Dominus

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Using the same commands as the gog dosbox should be fine making it work on linux (of course paths need to be adjusted).

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Reply 2 of 3, by DailyFrankPeter

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Solved.

I wasn't looking carefully enough! There was a CD image included with the GOG files. The GOG distribution does come preinstalled, but one needs to mount the CD image as well (presumably with every launch):

> mount c /GOGfolder
> mount d /GOGfolder/CD/xcom.cue -t iso
> c:
> xcomapoc

(this is the miminum that works I think, if not, everything can be reinstalled from the CD image which is what I have done)

Reply 3 of 3, by DailyFrankPeter

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Dominus wrote:

Using the same commands as the gog dosbox should be fine making it work on linux (of course paths need to be adjusted).

Thanks.