Posted June 12, 2016
Hi,
One of the cool things about playing gog games on linux is wine, which can open in a window size of your choosing. This makes it easy for you to play games like mm8 and arcanum in windowed mode, instead of switching your monitor to a very low resolution, and then messing up the screen if you do an alt tab.
So the idea is that gog offer some kind of shell, or sandbox to play older games in. There's that little time period between dos and direct X 9 where games would force fullscreen at dismally low resolutions. This sometimes presents problems playing the game outright, or prevents multi tasking like watching youtube or listening to music while grinding on some old RPG. Dosbox games do not have this issue, because it is the shell, and can be configured to play in a specified windows resolution.
One of the cool things about playing gog games on linux is wine, which can open in a window size of your choosing. This makes it easy for you to play games like mm8 and arcanum in windowed mode, instead of switching your monitor to a very low resolution, and then messing up the screen if you do an alt tab.
So the idea is that gog offer some kind of shell, or sandbox to play older games in. There's that little time period between dos and direct X 9 where games would force fullscreen at dismally low resolutions. This sometimes presents problems playing the game outright, or prevents multi tasking like watching youtube or listening to music while grinding on some old RPG. Dosbox games do not have this issue, because it is the shell, and can be configured to play in a specified windows resolution.
Post edited June 12, 2016 by xmorg