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I'm having issues with gog.com version of moo2. This version runs with dos box but gives my netbook fits. Since gog.com is drm free anyone know how to unpack the .exe file so I could just run it directly with dos box?

Hi,

What you want to do here is of course entirely possible (running a GOG release  

in a native dosbox emulator), but the exact particulars vary depending on which
GOG title it is - some use an image file + local files ; others just use local files.
Then, there are a number of different ways to achieve the same ends...

Don't worry about unpacking the gog.com exe as a separate task, just use crossover
to install the game in a bottle -- all the files you need will be in that bottle.
When installing a gog game, the installer options permit you to install (extract)
the game files without installing the dosbox included in the gog executable. However,
don't do that initially -- do the 'standard' type install using crossover (including
the gog version dosbox) and then browse the <bottle_name>/drive_c/ for the dosbox
config file ... a typical path to this file would be (linux path shown);

<bottle_name>/drive_c/Program Files/GOG.com/Pro Pinball - Timeshock/dosboxTimeshock.conf

All the dosbox specific configuration will be in that file. Study it - once you understand
that config and then couple that with your knowledge of using your native port of dosbox,
the rest is pretty simple...ie; create a directory on your native filesystem somewhere for
you native dosbox to use for that game, copy all the files from the gog.com game installation
(this time without the installation of the gog shipped dosbox) into the directory you created,
and then edit the dosbox.conf file accordingly to suit your native dosbox installation.

....I think I read somewhere that one of the dosbox ports...maybe the Mac port (or some dosbox
frontend) had the facility to directly import/use a gog.com installation without all this
mucking around...but if you just want to get to the files, now you know what to do 8)

Hope this helps

Cheers!

Don,

Thanks for such a great detailed post. Thanks!!!!

-Marc

I have installed the gog.com version of MOO 1 & 2 and for whatever reason MOO2 will not display video. I hear the audio and can tell that something is going on, but no video. Tried to uninstall and reinstall without any success. MOO1 works fine, but not MOO2. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.
andrew

Hi,

Have you tried enabling 'emulate a virtual desktop' in winecfg? I
would try that if you haven't already..

Cheers!

Funny -- I tried that and it did not work. However, after changing the video options the game does have video, but will only play in a small window instead of full screen (this is now happening with all of the gog.com games). I changed the options back to the way they were to no avail. Any ideas? I have searched through the support files and haven't found anything yet. Thanks for the help!

With a lot of those titles, the videos themselves are hardcoded to 640x480
and that's all they will do. If the game exe cannot detect that mode is
available on your hardware (often the case with widescreen displays), it
might not even try to display the videos at all, or crash or whatever...

...in linux, I have a modified xorg.conf setup that accounts for 4:3
aspect resolutions my 1680x1050 screen and some of these gog games do
handle that better -- that said, the graphics being display at 640x480
are all stretched and disproportionate to the point of being yukky...