Posted February 07, 2018
I've seen that some people are having issues with this but with some minor troubleshooting it works fine.
I'm running Debian on a scrappy old Thinkpad T60.
I will show you how to set up gog's Albion in basic Dosbox.
You will need either Innoextract or a similar extractor.
On most distros you can use the following command in the terminal to get it.
#sudo apt-get install innoextract
Download the windows executable from your gog library. In the terminal, navigate to your Downloads folder and use:
#innoextract setup_albion_2.0.0.3.exe
This will create an 'app' folder and an 'tmp' folder. Delete the 'tmp' folder and rename the app folder to albion. Next move the albion folder to your dos games folder.
Next go into the new albion folder and use the command:
#echo @echo off > albion.bat
This will create a batch file with "@echo off" on the first line. Add more lines with your preferred text editor. The contents of albion.bat should look like this:
@echo off
imgmount d ~/YOUR DOS FOLDER/albion/game.ins -t iso -fs iso
ALBILOW.BAT
you can check it from the terminal with:
#less albion.bat (hit q to exit less mode)
Now you should be able to run the program just by typing albion.bat in the albion directory. Before you run the program make sure to run the SETUP.EXE program in dosbox. GUS and general MIDI are kind of a pain in linux so I recommend you stick to adlib and soundblaster in the audio settings.
If any of you linux vets notice errors, let me know and I'll update this post.
I'm running Debian on a scrappy old Thinkpad T60.
I will show you how to set up gog's Albion in basic Dosbox.
You will need either Innoextract or a similar extractor.
On most distros you can use the following command in the terminal to get it.
#sudo apt-get install innoextract
Download the windows executable from your gog library. In the terminal, navigate to your Downloads folder and use:
#innoextract setup_albion_2.0.0.3.exe
This will create an 'app' folder and an 'tmp' folder. Delete the 'tmp' folder and rename the app folder to albion. Next move the albion folder to your dos games folder.
Next go into the new albion folder and use the command:
#echo @echo off > albion.bat
This will create a batch file with "@echo off" on the first line. Add more lines with your preferred text editor. The contents of albion.bat should look like this:
@echo off
imgmount d ~/YOUR DOS FOLDER/albion/game.ins -t iso -fs iso
ALBILOW.BAT
you can check it from the terminal with:
#less albion.bat (hit q to exit less mode)
Now you should be able to run the program just by typing albion.bat in the albion directory. Before you run the program make sure to run the SETUP.EXE program in dosbox. GUS and general MIDI are kind of a pain in linux so I recommend you stick to adlib and soundblaster in the audio settings.
If any of you linux vets notice errors, let me know and I'll update this post.
Post edited February 07, 2018 by isaakao1
