Hi there,

I run Linux and just see some old games, like Cannon Fodder are marked as running with Linux.
I´d like to know, are these native Linux games or do they require some kind of emulation?
When bying a game, do you need to decide which platform you use?

Instead of bying the Linux version I could get the DOS version and play it with DosBOX or even with Virtualbox in Windows 7.

Thanks

When you buy a game here you get access to the installers for all supported OS, you don’t have to chose one.

Out of curiosity, what’s the distribution you’re gaming on?

Dosbox is bundled locally with titles which originally require Dos. Same for Linux. You can, however, manually strip them and run on your system copy of dosbox.

Some games run natively, others through Wine, DOSBox, or ScummVM, but as w221 said, the "Linux" branding means that GOG includes everything you need*. Also, all of GOG's Linux releases are quite self-contained and put everything required to run the game in a single folder in your home directory ("~/GOG Games/<Game Title>/"), including a "shart.sh" script that launches the included Wine/DOSBox/whatever with the any switches necessary to run the correct binary.

* Well, at least as long as you run one of the supported distros. If your distro use newer versions of some libraries than what GOG bundle with their games, you might have to remove the GOG-bundled file.

You mean the Devs? I have the distinct impression GOG has an anti-lib bundling policy. Even for something like libsdl2-2.0-0:i386 which causes some people issues on Mint.

Maighstir is right, there’s always a bunch of libs bundled with GOG Linux installers, and loaded when you use the "start.sh" script.
Some more libs may come with the game itself, if the devs added them; these ones are usually loaded even if you run your game directly via its binary instead of the GOG-specific start.sh script.

Oh right, that lib folder. That makes sense, thanks. Probably should have looked at more than DOSBox games to begin with.