Posted May 15, 2020
Since no one here has documented it, I figured this will be a great help for those who do not want to use WinROTTGL:
1) First, go to https://icculus.org/rott/
2) Then, go down to "Windows Binaries".
3) Click on the zip link where it says "Development Snapshot".
4) Extract the contents of the Icculus ROTT sourceport's zip file on your PC.
5) Download https://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-1.2.15-win32.zip and extract SDL.DLL into the Icculus ROTT sourceport's folder as mentioned in step 4. Place this file in the same directory as all of the sourceport's .exe files shown in the sourceport's folder.
6) Now go to https://www.dll-files.com/sdl_mixer.dll.html
7) Download SDL Mixer 1.2.7.0 and extract SDL_MIXER.DLL into the sourceport's folder as mentioned in step 4. Place this file in the same directory as all of the sourceport's .exe files shown in the sourceport's folder.
8) From your ROTT GOG installation, place all of the following files into the sourceport's directory where rott-darkwar.exe is:
DARKWAR.RTC
DARKWAR.RTL
DARKWAR.WAD
REMOTE1.RTS
9) In the Icculus ROTT souceport, double-click on rott-darkwar.exe to start ROTT: Dark War.
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Edit (5/18/2020): The last revision of this sourceport is from 2015. Here are 32-bit and 64-bit windows binaries based off of the last 2015 revision:
https://lerppu.net/icculus-rott.zip
Since the SDL files are already included in the above zip, just add only the DARKWAR and REMOTE files mentioned above, then run one of the ROTT exes in the folder.
YMMV (Your Mileage May Vary)
1) First, go to https://icculus.org/rott/
2) Then, go down to "Windows Binaries".
3) Click on the zip link where it says "Development Snapshot".
4) Extract the contents of the Icculus ROTT sourceport's zip file on your PC.
5) Download https://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-1.2.15-win32.zip and extract SDL.DLL into the Icculus ROTT sourceport's folder as mentioned in step 4. Place this file in the same directory as all of the sourceport's .exe files shown in the sourceport's folder.
6) Now go to https://www.dll-files.com/sdl_mixer.dll.html
7) Download SDL Mixer 1.2.7.0 and extract SDL_MIXER.DLL into the sourceport's folder as mentioned in step 4. Place this file in the same directory as all of the sourceport's .exe files shown in the sourceport's folder.
8) From your ROTT GOG installation, place all of the following files into the sourceport's directory where rott-darkwar.exe is:
DARKWAR.RTC
DARKWAR.RTL
DARKWAR.WAD
REMOTE1.RTS
9) In the Icculus ROTT souceport, double-click on rott-darkwar.exe to start ROTT: Dark War.
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Edit (5/18/2020): The last revision of this sourceport is from 2015. Here are 32-bit and 64-bit windows binaries based off of the last 2015 revision:
https://lerppu.net/icculus-rott.zip
Since the SDL files are already included in the above zip, just add only the DARKWAR and REMOTE files mentioned above, then run one of the ROTT exes in the folder.
YMMV (Your Mileage May Vary)
Post edited September 11, 2022 by TheBigCore